Carissa Cascio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
carissa.cascio@vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Carissa Cascio has been a member of the faculty since 2007. Her research applies behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to explore the neurobiology of sensation and perception in autism. She is interested in how sensory processing difficulties impact the reduced social interaction and repetitive behaviors that characterize autism.
Education
PhD, Emory University
BS, Baylor University
Postgraduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research interests
Autism, sensation and perception, multisensory processing, fMRI, diffusion tensor imaging
Representative publications
1. Cascio C, McGlone F, Folger S, Tannan V, Baranek G, Pelphrey K, Essick G. (2007). Tactile perception in adults with autism: a multidimensional psychophysical study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2007 epub ahead of print.
2. Tommerdahl M, Tannan V, Cascio CJ, Baranek G, Whitsel B. (2007) Vibrotactile adaptation fails to enhance spatial localization in adults with autism. Brain Research 1154, 116-123.
3. Cascio C, Gerig G, Piven J. (2007). Pediatric diffusion tensor imaging: Application to the study of the developing brain. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 46(2), 213-223.
4. Cascio C, Styner M, Smith, RG, Gerig G, Hazlett HC, Jomier M, Bammer R, Piven J. (2006). Reduced relationship to cortical white matter volume revealed by tractography-based segmentation of the corpus callosum in young children with developmental delay. Am J. Psychiatry 163, 2157-2163.
5. Styner M, Smith RG, Cascio C, Oguz I, Jomier M. (2005). Corpus callosum subdivision based on a probabilistic model of inter-hemispheric connectivity. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions LNCS 3750, 765-772.
