Marjorie Solomon

Marjorie Solomon, PhD

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Curriculum Vitae

Marjorie Solomon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the MIND Institute, and the Imaging Research Center at UC Davis. She also is a licensed clinician, who completed her Postdoctoral fellowship at UC Davis in the laboratory of Dr. Sally Ozonoff. During her training, she obtained a broad background in clinical assessment, and carried out research on executive functions and psychosocial intervention in older higher functioning children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In 2007, she received a K08 Career Development Award from NIMH to use cognitive neuroscience methods including fMRI to study higher cognition in children, adolescents, and young adults with ASD under the Mentorship of Dr. Carter. Currently, she is engaged in an NIMH funded study of the neuroscience of learning and memory in adolescents with ASD. In the fall of 2014 she will initiate a follow-up study of middle childhood cognitive functioning and early biomarkers of response to intervention in a longitudinal cohort of 8-10 year old children with ASD, who were first identified as babies. Solomon has studied a wide variety of topics including friendship, gender differences, and similarities and commonalities between ASD and psychotic disorders across the childhood to adulthood age range. Her ultimate research goal is to apply what she learns through neuroscience to the development of interventions that help children and adolescents with ASD smoothly transition to adulthood so they can lead productive fulfilling lives.