Shulamite Green, PhD
Assistant Professor
UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Shulamite Green is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA’s Semel Institute. Dr. Green received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at UCLA in 2014. Thereafter, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute with a focus on pediatric neuroimaging. Dr. Green’s research is focused on the neurobiological bases of sensory over-responsivity, a common and impairing condition in which individuals over-react to sensory stimuli in their environments, causing challenges with participation in school, work, family life, and the community. Dr. Green conducted some of the first fMRI work demonstrating brain differences in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) specifically related to sensory over-responsivity, as well as identifying potential brain mechanisms through which some children with ASD regulate their sensory responses. She has continued to build on this work to identify how certain brain areas contribute to or regulate these difficulties and interfere with or facilitate attention and social functioning.
Dr. Green’s work has been funded by multiple grants from the National Institute of Mental Health as well as the Simons Foundation for Autism Research, the Eagles Autism Foundation, and the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation. Dr. Green received the International Society for Autism Research Dissertation Award as well as their Slifka/Ritvo Award for Innovation in Autism Research. She was also recently awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.
Clinically, Dr. Green serves as the autism consultant for UCLA TIES for Families, a program that provides extensive inter-disciplinary services for families adopting children from foster care. Dr. Green conducts autism evaluations and consultations for therapists working with families in this program.