Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service

The Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Phenotyping Service conducts developmental and behavioral evaluations on individuals with a variety of neurodevelopmental problems, focusing on young children and individuals of all ages with significant cognitive or social impairments. The goal of the service is to provide behavioral phenotyping for natural history and treatment studies of autism spectrum disorder and genetic disorders associated with intellectual disability, and contribute to outcome measure development for these conditions. Evaluations integrate NIH patient history with results from individually-administered standardized psychological tests, and can be completed based on clinical referral or protocol driven research questions.

If you are an NIH Clinical Center researcher or clinician interested in requesting a consultation from the NBPS please see: https://intranet.cc.nih.gov/pedstaff/how_to/psychconsult.

OCD Staff

Audrey Thurm, Ph.D.
Director
301-496-6768
Service Director Website

Lisa Joseph, Ph.D.
Psychologist
301-402-0973

Maria Martinez
Contract psychologist
301-480-4115

Cristan Farmer, Ph.D.
Psychologist and statistician
301-435-3999

Ivy Giserman-Kiss, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
301-435-6650

Emma Condy, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow
301-496-5323

Margaret Pekar M.A.
Research coordinator
301-402-1084

Leslie Manso
Contract data analyst
301-435-7962

Current NIMH funded IRTAs include Stephanie Pham, Dennis Carter and Rylee Duncan; please contact Audrey Thurm if you are interested in a position as an IRTA with us!

If interested in the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Interest Group, which meets monthly for presentations and discussions to foster collaboration between various NIH Institutes involved in both basic and clinical research in this area, please see: https://sigs.nih.gov/ndd/Pages/default.aspx