Education:
BA, Psychology: University of New Haven
Ph.D.: Experimental Psychology, University of Alabama
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Behavioral Neurology: Harvard Medical School, Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation Research

Summary Statement
Dr. Bodfish works with children and adults with autism and related developmental disorders. He has a focus on the integration of behavioral and medication therapies for the treatment of severe behavior disorders (e.g. stereotypies, rituals, self-injury, aggression, overactivity). He provides outpatient services and inpatient consultative services through the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Clinic at Western Carolina Center, and through consultations with regional TEACCH Centers and regional Mental Retardation Centers. He provides internship, post-doctoral and residency training through the UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, in the areas of psychopharmacology, behavioral assessment, and behavior therapy for developmental disorders. His administrative tasks include directing the Clinical Research Department at the UNC Human Development Research Institute at Western Carolina Center, and co-directing the UNC STAART Autism Research Center. His research focuses on the phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of ritualistic, repetitive behaviors.

Representative Publications
1. Bodfish, J.W. & Lewis, M.H.: Self-injury and comorbid behavior in developmental, neurological, psychiatric, and genetic disorders. In S. Schroeder, M. Oster-Granite, & T. Thompson (Eds.). Self-injurious Behavior: Gene-Brain-Behavior Relationships. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press, 2002.

2. Symons, F.J., Sutton, K., Walker, C. & Bodfish, J.W.: Altered diurnal pattern of substance P concentrations in adults with mental retardation and self-injury. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 108, 13-18, 2003.

3. Bodfish, J.W., Symons, F.J., Parker, D.E., & Lewis, M.H.: Varieties of repetitive behavior in autism: Comparison to mental retardation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 30, 237-243, 2000.

4. Sandler, A.D., Sutton, K.A., Deweese, J., Girardi, M.A., Sheppard, V., & Bodfish, J.W.: Lack of benefit of synthetic human secretin in the treatment of autism and pervasive developmental disabilities. The New England Journal of Medicine, 341, 1801-1806, 1999.

5. Lewis, M.H., Bodfish, J.W., Powell, S.B., & Golden, R.N.: Clomipramine treatment for stereotypy and related repetitive movement disorders in mental retardation: A double blind comparison with placebo. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100 (3), 299-312, 1995.