Lauren Kenworthy, PhD
Lauren Kenworthy, PhD, is an associate professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine, and director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Health System. Kenworthy's research interests are in the neuropsychological phenotype of autism. She is a co-author of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), which has been used in over 200 research publications to document executive functioning in various clinical groups.
Her recent publications have focused on the role of executive dysfunction in autism and its treatment. She is an author of 49 peer reviewed publications documenting non-social deficits in autism, as well as three books and multiple chapters on high functioning autism spectrum disorders and executive functions. (More)