Laboratory
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center
660 Charles E. Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Dr. Dapretto is presently appointed as Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She received a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the UCLA Psychology Department, specializing in language development. As a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, she later acquired expertise in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Bookheimer. Dr. Dapretto has been the recipient of several awards, including NIH fundings to study the neural systems associated with language functions in typically developing children, and several grants (funded by the Cure Autism Now foundation, the M.I.N.D. Research Institute at UC Davis, the National Alliance for Autism Research, and Autism Speaks) to study the neural basis of the socio-communicative impairments observed in autism. As part of the UCLA Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) funded by NIH, Dr. Dapretto currently serves as the PI of the imaging project (Project 4), as well as Co-PI of a project in infants at ultra high-risk for autism (Project 1 ). In addition, Dr. Dapretto is also a co-investigator on several large-scale collaborative studies headed by Drs. Bookheimer, Geschwind, and Wang, including a recently funded multi-site ACE Network (PI: Pelphrey; participating sites: Yale, UCLA, Harvard, University of Washington). Capitalizing on her dual training as a developmental psychologist and a neuroscientist, Dr. Daprettos research combines neuroimaging, behavioral, and genetic data to better characterize typical and atypical brain function from infancy to adulthood. Her work has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Brain, and Archives of General Psychiatry.
Masten Carrie L, Eisenberger Naomi I, Pfeifer Jennifer H, Colich Natalie L, Dapretto Mirella
Associations among pubertal development, empathic ability, and neural
responses while witnessing peer rejection in adolescence
Child development,
2013; 84(4):
1338-54.
Losin Elizabeth A Reynolds, Cross Katy A, Iacoboni Marco, Dapretto Mirella
Neural processing of race during imitation: Self-Similarity Versus
Social Status
Human brain mapping,
2013; 84(4):
.
Pfeifer Jennifer H, Kahn Lauren E, Merchant Junaid S, Peake Shannon J, Veroude Kim, Masten Carrie L, Lieberman Matthew D, Mazziotta John C, Dapretto Mirella
Longitudinal change in the neural bases of adolescent social
self-evaluations: effects of age and pubertal development
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2013; 33(17):
7415-9.
Pfeifer Jennifer H, Merchant Junaid S, Colich Natalie L, Hernandez Leanna M, Rudie Jeff D, Dapretto Mirella
Neural and behavioral responses during self-evaluative processes
differ in youth with and without autism
Journal of autism and developmental disorders,
2013; 43(2):
272-85.
Losin Elizabeth A Reynolds, Iacoboni Macro, Martin Alia, Dapretto Mirella
Own-gender imitation activates the brain's reward circuitry
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2012; 7(7):
804-10.
Sepeta Leigh, Tsuchiya Naotsugu, Davies Mari S, Sigman Marian, Bookheimer Susan Y, Dapretto Mirella
Abnormal social reward processing in autism as indexed by pupillary
responses to happy faces
Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders,
2012; 4(1):
17.
Hubbard Amy L, McNealy Kristin, Scott-Van Zeeland Ashley A, Callan Daniel E, Bookheimer Susan Y, Dapretto Mirella
Altered integration of speech and gesture in children with autism
spectrum disorders
Brain and behavior,
2012; 2(5):
606-19.
Rudie Jeffrey D, Hernandez Leanna M, Brown Jesse A, Beck-Pancer Devora, Colich Natalie L, Gorrindo Philip, Thompson Paul M, Geschwind Daniel H, Bookheimer Susan Y, Levitt Pat, Dapretto Mirella
Autism-associated promoter variant in MET impacts functional and
structural brain networks
Neuron,
2012; 75(5):
904-15.
Hutman Ted, Rozga Agata, DeLaurentis Angeline, Sigman Marian, Dapretto Mirella
Infants' pre-empathic behaviors are associated with language skills
Infant behavior & development,
2012; 35(3):
561-9.
Rudie Jeffrey D, Shehzad Zarrar, Hernandez Leanna M, Colich Natalie L, Bookheimer Susan Y, Iacoboni Marco, Dapretto Mirella
Reduced functional integration and segregation of distributed neural
systems underlying social and emotional information processing in
autism spectrum disorders
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991),
2012; 22(5):
1025-37.
Muscatell Keely A, Morelli Sylvia A, Falk Emily B, Way Baldwin M, Pfeifer Jennifer H, Galinsky Adam D, Lieberman Matthew D, Dapretto Mirella, Eisenberger Naomi I
Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network
NeuroImage,
2012; 60(3):
1771-7.
Losin Elizabeth A Reynolds, Iacoboni Marco, Martin Alia, Cross Katy A, Dapretto Mirella
Race modulates neural activity during imitation
NeuroImage,
2012; 59(4):
3594-603.
Moore William E, Pfeifer Jennifer H, Masten Carrie L, Mazziotta John C, Iacoboni Marco, Dapretto Mirella
Facing puberty: associations between pubertal development and neural
responses to affective facial displays
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2012; 7(1):
35-43.
McNealy Kristin, Mazziotta John C, Dapretto Mirella
Age and experience shape developmental changes in the neural basis of
language-related learning
Developmental science,
2011; 14(6):
1261-82.
Davies Mari S, Dapretto Mirella, Sigman Marian, Sepeta Leigh, Bookheimer Susan Y
Neural bases of gaze and emotion processing in children with autism
spectrum disorders
Brain and behavior,
2011; 1(1):
1-11.
Masten Carrie L, Colich Natalie L, Rudie Jeffrey D, Bookheimer Susan Y, Eisenberger Naomi I, Dapretto Mirella
An fMRI investigation of responses to peer rejection in adolescents
with autism spectrum disorders
Developmental cognitive neuroscience,
2011; 1(3):
260-70.
Nuñez S Christopher, Dapretto Mirella, Katzir Tami, Starr Ariel, Bramen Jennifer, Kan Eric, Bookheimer Susan, Sowell Elizabeth R
fMRI of syntactic processing in typically developing children:
structural correlates in the inferior frontal gyrus
Developmental cognitive neuroscience,
2011; 1(3):
313-23.
Greene Deanna J, Colich Natalie, Iacoboni Marco, Zaidel Eran, Bookheimer Susan Y, Dapretto Mirella
Atypical neural networks for social orienting in autism spectrum
disorders
NeuroImage,
2011; 56(1):
354-62.
Dennis Emily L, Jahanshad Neda, Rudie Jeffrey D, Brown Jesse A, Johnson Kori, McMahon Katie L, de Zubicaray Greig I, Montgomery Grant, Martin Nicholas G, Wright Margaret J, Bookheimer Susan Y, Dapretto Mirella, Toga Arthur W, Thompson Paul M
Altered structural brain connectivity in healthy carriers of the
autism risk gene, CNTNAP2
Brain connectivity,
2011; 1(6):
447-59.
Pfeifer Jennifer H, Masten Carrie L, Moore William E, Oswald Tasha M, Mazziotta John C, Iacoboni Marco, Dapretto Mirella
Entering adolescence: resistance to peer influence, risky behavior,
and neural changes in emotion reactivity
Neuron,
2011; 69(5):
1029-36.
Kilroy Emily, Liu Collin Y, Yan Lirong, Kim Yoon Chun, Dapretto Mirella, Mendez Mario F, Wang Danny J J
Relationships between Cerebral Blood Flow and IQ in Typically
Developing Children and Adolescents
Journal of cognitive science,
2011; 12(2):
151-170.
Masten Carrie L, Eisenberger Naomi I, Borofsky Larissa A, McNealy Kristin, Pfeifer Jennifer H, Dapretto Mirella
Subgenual anterior cingulate responses to peer rejection: A marker of
adolescents' risk for depression
Development and psychopathology,
2011; 23(1):
283-92.
Scott-Van Zeeland Ashley A, Abrahams Brett S, Alvarez-Retuerto Ana I, Sonnenblick Lisa I, Rudie Jeffrey D, Ghahremani Dara, Mumford Jeanette A, Poldrack Russell A, Dapretto Mirella, Geschwind Daniel H, Bookheimer Susan Y
Altered functional connectivity in frontal lobe circuits is associated
with variation in the autism risk gene CNTNAP2
Science translational medicine,
2010; 2(56):
56ra80.
Scott-Van Zeeland Ashley A, McNealy Kristin, Wang A Ting, Sigman Marian, Bookheimer Susan Y, Dapretto Mirella
No neural evidence of statistical learning during exposure to
artificial languages in children with autism spectrum disorders
Biological psychiatry,
2010; 68(4):
345-51.
Masten Carrie L, Eisenberger Naomi I, Pfeifer Jennifer H, Dapretto Mirella
Witnessing peer rejection during early adolescence: Neural correlates
of empathy for experiences of social exclusion
Social neuroscience,
2010; 68(4):
1-12.
Rozga Agata, Hutman Ted, Young Gregory S, Rogers Sally J, Ozonoff Sally, Dapretto Mirella, Sigman Marian
Behavioral Profiles of Affected and Unaffected Siblings of Children
with Autism: Contribution of Measures of Mother-Infant Interaction and
Nonverbal Communication
Journal of autism and developmental disorders,
2010; 68(4):
.
Losin Elizabeth A Reynolds, Dapretto Mirella, Iacoboni Marco
Culture and neuroscience: additive or synergistic?
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2010; 5(2-3):
148-58.
Scott-Van Zeeland Ashley A, Dapretto Mirella, Ghahremani Dara G, Poldrack Russell A, Bookheimer Susan Y
Reward processing in autism
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research,
2010; 3(2):
53-67.
McNealy Kristin, Mazziotta John C, Dapretto Mirella
The neural basis of speech parsing in children and adults
Developmental science,
2010; 13(2):
385-406.
Sabb Fred W, van Erp Theo G M, Hardt Molly E, Dapretto Mirella, Caplan Rochelle, Cannon Tyrone D, Bearden Carrie E
Language network dysfunction as a predictor of outcome in youth at
clinical high risk for psychosis
Schizophrenia research,
2010; 116(2-3):
173-83.
Pfeifer Jennifer H, Masten Carrie L, Borofsky Larissa A, Dapretto Mirella, Fuligni Andrew J, Lieberman Matthew D
Neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in
adolescents and adults: when social perspective-taking informs
self-perception
Child development,
2009; 80(4):
1016-38.
Lu Lisa H, Dapretto Mirella, O'Hare Elizabeth D, Kan Eric, McCourt Sarah T, Thompson Paul M, Toga Arthur W, Bookheimer Susan Y, Sowell Elizabeth R
Relationships between brain activation and brain structure in normally
developing children
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991),
2009; 19(11):
2595-604.
Masten Carrie L, Eisenberger Naomi I, Borofsky Larissa A, Pfeifer Jennifer H, McNealy Kristin, Mazziotta John C, Dapretto Mirella
Neural correlates of social exclusion during adolescence:
understanding the distress of peer rejection
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2009; 4(2):
143-57.
Losin Elizabeth A Reynolds, Dapretto Mirella, Iacoboni Marco
Culture in the mind's mirror: how anthropology and neuroscience can
inform a model of the neural substrate for cultural imitative
learning
Progress in brain research,
2009; 178(3):
175-90.
Hubbard Amy L, Wilson Stephen M, Callan Daniel E, Dapretto Mirella
Giving speech a hand: gesture modulates activity in auditory cortex
during speech perception
Human brain mapping,
2009; 30(3):
1028-37.
Bookheimer Susan Y, Wang A Ting, Scott Ashley, Sigman Marian, Dapretto Mirella
Frontal contributions to face processing differences in autism:
evidence from fMRI of inverted face processing
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS,
2008; 14(6):
922-32.
Pfeifer, J. H. Iacoboni, M. Mazziotta, J. C. Dapretto, M.
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children
Neuroimage,
2008; 39(4):
2076-85.
Pfeifer Jennifer H, Iacoboni Marco, Mazziotta John C, Dapretto Mirella
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal
competence in children
NeuroImage,
2008; 39(4):
2076-85.
Uddin Lucina Q, Davies Mari S, Scott Ashley A, Zaidel Eran, Bookheimer Susan Y, Iacoboni Marco, Dapretto Mirella
Neural basis of self and other representation in autism: an FMRI study
of self-face recognition
PloS one,
2008; 3(10):
e3526.
Pfeifer Jennifer H, Lieberman Matthew D, Dapretto Mirella
"I know you are but what am I?!": neural bases of self- and social
knowledge retrieval in children and adults
Journal of cognitive neuroscience,
2007; 19(8):
1323-37.
Pfeifer, J. H. Lieberman, M. D. Dapretto, M.
"I know you are but what am I?!": neural bases of self- and social knowledge retrieval in children and adults
J Cogn Neurosci,
2007; 19(8):
1323-37.
Wang, A. T. Lee, S. S. Sigman, M. Dapretto, M.
Reading affect in the face and voice: neural correlates of interpreting communicative intent in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
Arch Gen Psychiatry,
2007; 64(6):
698-708.
Wang A Ting, Lee Susan S, Sigman Marian, Dapretto Mirella
Reading affect in the face and voice: neural correlates of
interpreting communicative intent in children and adolescents with
autism spectrum disorders
Archives of general psychiatry,
2007; 64(6):
698-708.
Iacoboni Marco, Dapretto Mirella
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction
Nature reviews. Neuroscience,
2006; 7(12):
942-51.
Wang A Ting, Lee Susan S, Sigman Marian, Dapretto Mirella
Developmental changes in the neural basis of interpreting
communicative intent
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience,
2006; 1(2):
107-21.
McNealy, K. Mazziotta, J. C. Dapretto, M.
Cracking the language code: neural mechanisms underlying speech parsing
J Neurosci,
2006; 26(29):
7629-39.
McNealy Kristin, Mazziotta John C, Dapretto Mirella
Cracking the language code: neural mechanisms underlying speech
parsing
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2006; 26(29):
7629-39.
Wang, A. T. Lee, S. S. Sigman, M. Dapretto, M.
Neural basis of irony comprehension in children with autism: the role of prosody and context
Brain,
2006; 129(Pt 4):
932-43.
Iacoboni, M. Dapretto, M.
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction
Nat Rev Neurosci,
2006; 7(12):
942-51.
Dapretto, M. Davies, M. S. Pfeifer, J. H. Scott, A. A. Sigman, M. Bookheimer, S. Y. Iacoboni, M.
Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders
Nat Neurosci,
2006; 9(1):
28-30.
Wang A Ting, Lee Susan S, Sigman Marian, Dapretto Mirella
Neural basis of irony comprehension in children with autism: the role
of prosody and context
Brain : a journal of neurology,
2006; 129(Pt 4):
932-43.
Lee, S. S. Dapretto, M.
Metaphorical vs. literal word meanings: fMRI evidence against a selective role of the right hemisphere
Neuroimage,
2006; 29(2):
536-44.
Lee Susan S, Dapretto Mirella
Metaphorical vs. literal word meanings: fMRI evidence against a
selective role of the right hemisphere
NeuroImage,
2006; 29(2):
536-44.
Dapretto Mirella, Davies Mari S, Pfeifer Jennifer H, Scott Ashley A, Sigman Marian, Bookheimer Susan Y, Iacoboni Marco
Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in
children with autism spectrum disorders
Nature neuroscience,
2006; 9(1):
28-30.
Dapretto, M. Lee, S. S. Caplan, R.
A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of discourse coherence in typically developing children
Neuroreport,
2005; 16(15):
1661-5.
Dapretto Mirella, Lee Susan S, Caplan Rochelle
A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of discourse coherence
in typically developing children
Neuroreport,
2005; 16(15):
1661-5.
Wang, A. T. Dapretto, M. Hariri, A. R. Sigman, M. Bookheimer, S. Y.
Neural correlates of facial affect processing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry,
2004; 43(4):
481-90.
Hernandez, A. E. Kotz, S. A. Hofmann, J. Valentin, V. V. Dapretto, M. Bookheimer, S. Y.
The neural correlates of grammatical gender decisions in Spanish
Neuroreport,
2004; 15(5):
863-6.
Wang A Ting, Dapretto Mirella, Hariri Ahmad R, Sigman Marian, Bookheimer Susan Y
Neural correlates of facial affect processing in children and
adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
2004; 43(4):
481-90.
Hernandez Arturo E, Kotz Sonja A, Hofmann Juliane, Valentin Vivian V, Dapretto Mirella, Bookheimer Susan Y
The neural correlates of grammatical gender decisions in Spanish
Neuroreport,
2004; 15(5):
863-6.
Caplan, R. Dapretto, M.
Making sense during conversation: an fMRI study
Neuroreport,
2001; 12(16):
3625-32.
Hernandez, A. E. Dapretto, M. Mazziotta, J. Bookheimer, S.
Language switching and language representation in Spanish-English bilinguals: an fMRI study
Neuroimage,
2001; 14(2):
510-20.
Dapretto, M. Bjork, E. L.
The development of word retrieval abilities in the second year and its relation to early vocabulary growth
Child Dev,
2000; 71(3):
635-48.
Woods, R. P. Dapretto, M. Sicotte, N. L. Toga, A. W. Mazziotta, J. C.
Creation and use of a Talairach-compatible atlas for accurate, automated, nonlinear intersubject registration, and analysis of functional imaging data
Hum Brain Mapp,
1999; 8(2-3):
73-9.
Dapretto, M. Bookheimer, S. Y.
Form and content: dissociating syntax and semantics in sentence comprehension
Neuron,
1999; 24(2):
427-32.
Bookheimer, S. Y. Dapretto, M. Karmarkar, U.
Functional MRI in children with epilepsy
Dev Neurosci,
1999; 21(3-5):
191-9.
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