Julie Wolf, PhD
Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Biography
Julie Wolf, PhD, specializes in pediatric developmental and behavioral medicine, focusing on autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Asperger syndrome, social communication disorder, and developmental regression. She is the associate director of the Developmental Disabilities Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center.
Wolf's research explores social and adaptive functioning, sibling relationships, and neural mechanisms in ASD, and the overlap between ASD and depression. Her work examines how individuals with ASD process social cues, including eye contact and facial expressions, and the role of sibling relationships in adapting to the disorder.
Wolf is an associate professor of child psychology at the Yale Child Study Center.
Titles
- Associate Professor of Child Psychology
- Associate Director, Developmental Disabilities Clinic, Child Study Center
Education & Training
- Post-Doctoral FellowYale Child Study Center (2007)
- InternUniversity of Chicago (2005)
- PhDUniversity of Connecticut (2005)
- MAUniversity of Connecticut (2002)
- BAHaverford College (1997)
Additional Information
Publications
- Franke C, Griffin J, Naples A, Wolf J, McPartland J. Social Anxiety Reduces Visual Attention to the Eyes of Emotional Faces in Autistic Youth. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2024, 1-13. PMID: 39556296, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06636-4.
- Matuskey D, Yang Y, Naganawa M, Koohsari S, Toyonaga T, Gravel P, Pittman B, Torres K, Pisani L, Finn C, Cramer-Benjamin S, Herman N, Rosenthal L, Franke C, Walicki B, Esterlis I, Skosnik P, Radhakrishnan R, Wolf J, Nabulsi N, Ropchan J, Huang Y, Carson R, Naples A, McPartland J. 11C-UCB-J PET imaging is consistent with lower synaptic density in autistic adults. Molecular Psychiatry 2024, 1-7. PMID: 39367053, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02776-2.
- Azu M, Han G, Wolf J, Naples A, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Bernier R, Jeste S, Dziura J, Webb S, Sugar C, Shic F, McPartland J. Clinician-caregiver informant discrepancy is associated with sex, diagnosis age, and intervention use among autistic children. Autism 2024, 13623613241279999. PMID: 39344965, DOI: 10.1177/13623613241279999.
- Keifer C, Ventola P, Wolf J. Assessment and Treatment Planning in Autistic Adults. 2024, 367-383. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46463-8_15.
- Finn C, Han G, Naples A, Wolf J, McPartland J. Development of peak alpha frequency reflects a distinct trajectory of neural maturation in autistic children. Autism Research 2023, 16: 2077-2089. PMID: 37638733, DOI: 10.1002/aur.3017.
- Hirsch J, Zhang X, Noah J, Dravida S, Naples A, Tiede M, Wolf J, McPartland J. Neural correlates of eye contact and social function in autism spectrum disorder. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0265798. PMID: 36350848, PMCID: PMC9645655, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265798.
- Naples AJ, Foss-Feig JH, Wolf JM, Srihari VH, McPartland JC. Predictability modulates neural response to eye contact in ASD. Molecular Autism 2022, 13: 42. PMID: 36309762, PMCID: PMC9618208, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-022-00519-0.
- Altschuler MR, Trevisan DA, Wolf JM, Naples AJ, Foss-Feig JH, Srihari VH, McPartland JC. Face Perception Predicts Affective Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorder but Not Schizophrenia or Typical Development. Journal Of Psychopathology And Clinical Science 2021, 130: 413-422. PMID: 34180705, PMCID: PMC8244155, DOI: 10.1037/abn0000621.
- Understanding of ASD by Siblings is Associated with Warmth and Hostility in the Sibling RelationshipCoffman M, Kelso N, Antezana L, Braconnier M, Richey J, Wolf J. Understanding of ASD by Siblings is Associated with Warmth and Hostility in the Sibling Relationship. Journal Of Child And Family Studies 2021, 30: 1577-1585. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-021-01945-z.
- Duan S, Lee M, Wolf J, Naples AJ, McPartland JC. Higher Depressive Symptoms Predict Lower Social Adaptive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with ASD. Journal Of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 2020, 51: 203-210. PMID: 32347746, DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2020.1750020.
- Braconnier ML, Coffman MC, Kelso N, Wolf JM. Sibling Relationships: Parent–Child Agreement and Contributions of Siblings With and Without ASD. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2017, 48: 1612-1622. PMID: 29188588, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3393-9.
- Foss-Feig JH, McPartland JC, Anticevic A, Wolf J. Re-conceptualizing ASD Within a Dimensional Framework: Positive, Negative, and Cognitive Feature Clusters. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2015, 46: 342-351. PMID: 26267330, PMCID: PMC5328688, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-015-2539-x.
- Ventola P, Yang DY, Friedman HE, Oosting D, Wolf J, Sukhodolsky DG, Pelphrey KA. Heterogeneity of neural mechanisms of response to pivotal response treatment. Brain Imaging And Behavior 2014, 9: 74-88. PMID: 25370452, PMCID: PMC4993028, DOI: 10.1007/s11682-014-9331-y.
- Ventola P, Friedman HE, Anderson LC, Wolf JM, Oosting D, Foss-Feig J, McDonald N, Volkmar F, Pelphrey KA. Improvements in Social and Adaptive Functioning Following Short-Duration PRT Program: A Clinical Replication. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2014, 44: 2862-2870. PMID: 24915928, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2145-3.
- Wolf J, Ventola P. Assessment and Treatment Planning in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2014, 283-298. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0506-5_14.
- Volkmar FR, Wolf JM. When children with autism become adults. World Psychiatry 2013, 12: 79-80. PMID: 23471806, PMCID: PMC3619174, DOI: 10.1002/wps.20020.
- Wolf J. Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive and Achievement Batteries. 2013, 3393-3399. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_760.
- South M, Wolf J, Herlihy L. Future Dimensions: Neuroscience Applications to Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychology. Professional Psychology Research And Practice 2012, 43: 560-567. DOI: 10.1037/a0029040.
- Tanaka JW, Wolf JM, Klaiman C, Koenig K, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, Stahl SS, South M, McPartland JC, Kaiser MD, Schultz RT. The perception and identification of facial emotions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders using the Let’s Face It! Emotion Skills Battery. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2012, 53: 1259-1267. PMID: 22780332, PMCID: PMC3505257, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02571.x.
- Seeing red: Color selection as an indicator of implicit societal conceptions about the autism spectrum.Diehl, J. J., Wolf, J., Herlihy, L., & Moller, A. C. (2011). Seeing red: Color selection as an indicator of implicit societal conceptions about the autism spectrum. Disability Studies Quarterly, 31(3).
- Kaiser MD, Hudac CM, Shultz S, Lee SM, Cheung C, Berken AM, Deen B, Pitskel NB, Sugrue DR, Voos AC, Saulnier CA, Ventola P, Wolf JM, Klin A, Vander Wyk B, Pelphrey KA. Neural signatures of autism. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2010, 107: 21223-21228. PMID: 21078973, PMCID: PMC3000300, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010412107.
- Tanaka JW, Wolf JM, Klaiman C, Koenig K, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, Stahl S, Kaiser MD, Schultz RT. Using computerized games to teach face recognition skills to children with autism spectrum disorder: the Let’s Face It! program. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2010, 51: 944-952. PMID: 20646129, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02258.x.
- New JJ, Schultz RT, Wolf J, Niehaus JL, Klin A, German TC, Scholl BJ. The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48: 51-59. PMID: 19686766, PMCID: PMC6102729, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.008.
- Wolf JM, Tanaka JW, Klaiman C, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, South M, McPartland J, Kaiser MD, Phillips R, Schultz RT. Specific impairment of face‐processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let's Face It! skills battery. Autism Research 2008, 1: 329-340. PMID: 19360688, PMCID: PMC4589218, DOI: 10.1002/aur.56.
- Kamio Y, Wolf J, Fein D. Automatic Processing of Emotional Faces in High-Functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorders: An Affective Priming Study. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2006, 36: 155-167. PMID: 16523242, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-005-0056-z.
- Jackson CT, Fein D, Wolf J, Jones G, Hauck M, Waterhouse L, Feinstein C. Responses and Sustained Interactions in Children with Mental Retardation and Autism. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2003, 33: 115-121. PMID: 12757350, DOI: 10.1023/a:1022927124025.
- Gracely RH, Petzke F, Wolf JM, Clauw DJ. Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of augmented pain processing in fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum 2002, 46: 1333-43. PMID: 12115241, DOI: 10.1002/art.10225.
Departments and Programs
Biography
Julie Wolf, PhD, specializes in pediatric developmental and behavioral medicine, focusing on autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Asperger syndrome, social communication disorder, and developmental regression. She is the associate director of the Developmental Disabilities Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center.
Wolf's research explores social and adaptive functioning, sibling relationships, and neural mechanisms in ASD, and the overlap between ASD and depression. Her work examines how individuals with ASD process social cues, including eye contact and facial expressions, and the role of sibling relationships in adapting to the disorder.
Wolf is an associate professor of child psychology at the Yale Child Study Center.
Titles
- Associate Professor of Child Psychology
- Associate Director, Developmental Disabilities Clinic, Child Study Center
Education & Training
- Post-Doctoral FellowYale Child Study Center (2007)
- InternUniversity of Chicago (2005)
- PhDUniversity of Connecticut (2005)
- MAUniversity of Connecticut (2002)
- BAHaverford College (1997)
Additional Information
Publications
- Franke C, Griffin J, Naples A, Wolf J, McPartland J. Social Anxiety Reduces Visual Attention to the Eyes of Emotional Faces in Autistic Youth. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2024, 1-13. PMID: 39556296, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-024-06636-4.
- Matuskey D, Yang Y, Naganawa M, Koohsari S, Toyonaga T, Gravel P, Pittman B, Torres K, Pisani L, Finn C, Cramer-Benjamin S, Herman N, Rosenthal L, Franke C, Walicki B, Esterlis I, Skosnik P, Radhakrishnan R, Wolf J, Nabulsi N, Ropchan J, Huang Y, Carson R, Naples A, McPartland J. 11C-UCB-J PET imaging is consistent with lower synaptic density in autistic adults. Molecular Psychiatry 2024, 1-7. PMID: 39367053, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02776-2.
- Azu M, Han G, Wolf J, Naples A, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Bernier R, Jeste S, Dziura J, Webb S, Sugar C, Shic F, McPartland J. Clinician-caregiver informant discrepancy is associated with sex, diagnosis age, and intervention use among autistic children. Autism 2024, 13623613241279999. PMID: 39344965, DOI: 10.1177/13623613241279999.
- Keifer C, Ventola P, Wolf J. Assessment and Treatment Planning in Autistic Adults. 2024, 367-383. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46463-8_15.
- Finn C, Han G, Naples A, Wolf J, McPartland J. Development of peak alpha frequency reflects a distinct trajectory of neural maturation in autistic children. Autism Research 2023, 16: 2077-2089. PMID: 37638733, DOI: 10.1002/aur.3017.
- Hirsch J, Zhang X, Noah J, Dravida S, Naples A, Tiede M, Wolf J, McPartland J. Neural correlates of eye contact and social function in autism spectrum disorder. PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0265798. PMID: 36350848, PMCID: PMC9645655, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265798.
- Naples AJ, Foss-Feig JH, Wolf JM, Srihari VH, McPartland JC. Predictability modulates neural response to eye contact in ASD. Molecular Autism 2022, 13: 42. PMID: 36309762, PMCID: PMC9618208, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-022-00519-0.
- Altschuler MR, Trevisan DA, Wolf JM, Naples AJ, Foss-Feig JH, Srihari VH, McPartland JC. Face Perception Predicts Affective Theory of Mind in Autism Spectrum Disorder but Not Schizophrenia or Typical Development. Journal Of Psychopathology And Clinical Science 2021, 130: 413-422. PMID: 34180705, PMCID: PMC8244155, DOI: 10.1037/abn0000621.
- Understanding of ASD by Siblings is Associated with Warmth and Hostility in the Sibling RelationshipCoffman M, Kelso N, Antezana L, Braconnier M, Richey J, Wolf J. Understanding of ASD by Siblings is Associated with Warmth and Hostility in the Sibling Relationship. Journal Of Child And Family Studies 2021, 30: 1577-1585. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-021-01945-z.
- Duan S, Lee M, Wolf J, Naples AJ, McPartland JC. Higher Depressive Symptoms Predict Lower Social Adaptive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with ASD. Journal Of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 2020, 51: 203-210. PMID: 32347746, DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2020.1750020.
- Braconnier ML, Coffman MC, Kelso N, Wolf JM. Sibling Relationships: Parent–Child Agreement and Contributions of Siblings With and Without ASD. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2017, 48: 1612-1622. PMID: 29188588, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3393-9.
- Foss-Feig JH, McPartland JC, Anticevic A, Wolf J. Re-conceptualizing ASD Within a Dimensional Framework: Positive, Negative, and Cognitive Feature Clusters. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2015, 46: 342-351. PMID: 26267330, PMCID: PMC5328688, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-015-2539-x.
- Ventola P, Yang DY, Friedman HE, Oosting D, Wolf J, Sukhodolsky DG, Pelphrey KA. Heterogeneity of neural mechanisms of response to pivotal response treatment. Brain Imaging And Behavior 2014, 9: 74-88. PMID: 25370452, PMCID: PMC4993028, DOI: 10.1007/s11682-014-9331-y.
- Ventola P, Friedman HE, Anderson LC, Wolf JM, Oosting D, Foss-Feig J, McDonald N, Volkmar F, Pelphrey KA. Improvements in Social and Adaptive Functioning Following Short-Duration PRT Program: A Clinical Replication. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2014, 44: 2862-2870. PMID: 24915928, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2145-3.
- Wolf J, Ventola P. Assessment and Treatment Planning in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2014, 283-298. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0506-5_14.
- Volkmar FR, Wolf JM. When children with autism become adults. World Psychiatry 2013, 12: 79-80. PMID: 23471806, PMCID: PMC3619174, DOI: 10.1002/wps.20020.
- Wolf J. Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive and Achievement Batteries. 2013, 3393-3399. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_760.
- South M, Wolf J, Herlihy L. Future Dimensions: Neuroscience Applications to Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychology. Professional Psychology Research And Practice 2012, 43: 560-567. DOI: 10.1037/a0029040.
- Tanaka JW, Wolf JM, Klaiman C, Koenig K, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, Stahl SS, South M, McPartland JC, Kaiser MD, Schultz RT. The perception and identification of facial emotions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders using the Let’s Face It! Emotion Skills Battery. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2012, 53: 1259-1267. PMID: 22780332, PMCID: PMC3505257, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02571.x.
- Seeing red: Color selection as an indicator of implicit societal conceptions about the autism spectrum.Diehl, J. J., Wolf, J., Herlihy, L., & Moller, A. C. (2011). Seeing red: Color selection as an indicator of implicit societal conceptions about the autism spectrum. Disability Studies Quarterly, 31(3).
- Kaiser MD, Hudac CM, Shultz S, Lee SM, Cheung C, Berken AM, Deen B, Pitskel NB, Sugrue DR, Voos AC, Saulnier CA, Ventola P, Wolf JM, Klin A, Vander Wyk B, Pelphrey KA. Neural signatures of autism. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2010, 107: 21223-21228. PMID: 21078973, PMCID: PMC3000300, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010412107.
- Tanaka JW, Wolf JM, Klaiman C, Koenig K, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, Stahl S, Kaiser MD, Schultz RT. Using computerized games to teach face recognition skills to children with autism spectrum disorder: the Let’s Face It! program. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2010, 51: 944-952. PMID: 20646129, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02258.x.
- New JJ, Schultz RT, Wolf J, Niehaus JL, Klin A, German TC, Scholl BJ. The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48: 51-59. PMID: 19686766, PMCID: PMC6102729, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.008.
- Wolf JM, Tanaka JW, Klaiman C, Cockburn J, Herlihy L, Brown C, South M, McPartland J, Kaiser MD, Phillips R, Schultz RT. Specific impairment of face‐processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let's Face It! skills battery. Autism Research 2008, 1: 329-340. PMID: 19360688, PMCID: PMC4589218, DOI: 10.1002/aur.56.
- Kamio Y, Wolf J, Fein D. Automatic Processing of Emotional Faces in High-Functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorders: An Affective Priming Study. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2006, 36: 155-167. PMID: 16523242, DOI: 10.1007/s10803-005-0056-z.
- Jackson CT, Fein D, Wolf J, Jones G, Hauck M, Waterhouse L, Feinstein C. Responses and Sustained Interactions in Children with Mental Retardation and Autism. Journal Of Autism And Developmental Disorders 2003, 33: 115-121. PMID: 12757350, DOI: 10.1023/a:1022927124025.
- Gracely RH, Petzke F, Wolf JM, Clauw DJ. Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of augmented pain processing in fibromyalgia. Arthritis Rheum 2002, 46: 1333-43. PMID: 12115241, DOI: 10.1002/art.10225.
Departments and Programs