Matt Mosconi, PhD

Assistant Professor
Psychiatry, Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-5153
Office Fax: 214-648-5195

matt.mosconi@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Matthew Mosconi earned his masters and PhD in clinical neuropsychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He then completed his postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Mosconi is currently pursuing his interests in developmental neuroscience and the assessment of motor and cognitive functions in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders while serving as an investigator at the new UT Southwestern Autism Center (Director: John A. Sweeney, PhD).

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychology (2007)
UndergraduateEmory University (1999)

Research Interests

Autism
Intermediate phenotypes in psychiatric research
Sensorimotor development

Publications

Featured
Motor impairments and dyspraxia in autism.

Mosconi MW, Takarae Y, & Sweeney JA , Autism Spectrum Disorders. Oxford University Press. , ; (In Press)

Featured
Neurobehavioral abnormalities in first-degree relatives of individuals with autism.

Mosconi MW, Kay M, D?Cruz AM, Guter S, Kapur K, Macmillan C, Stanford LD, & Sweeney JA , Archives of General Psychiatry , 2010; (67):830-840

Featured
Lateralized asymmetries in implicit learning of visuospatial pattern sequencing in individuals with autism

D?Cruz AM, Mosconi MW, Steele S, Rubin L, Khine T, & Sweeney JA , Biological Psychiatry , 2009; (66):393-397

Featured
A longitudinal study of amygdala volume and joint attention in 2-4 year old children with autism.

Mosconi MW, Hazlett HC, Poe M, Gerig G, Gimpel RS, & Piven J , Archives of General Psychiatry , 2009; (66):509-516

Featured
Structural MRI in autism: findings and future directions

Mosconi MW, Zwaigenbaum L, & Piven J , Clinical Neuroscience Research , 2006; (6):135-144

Motor dysfunction as a core trait in autism spectrum disorders.

Mosconi MW & Sweeney JA , Science China: Life Sciences , ; (In Press)

Cerebellar dysfunctions underlying core cognitive and sensorimotor deficits in autism spectrum disorder.

Mosconi MW & Sweeney JA , Cerebellum , ; (In Press)

Cerebellar dysfunctions underlying core cognitive and sensorimotor deficits in autism spectrum disorder.

Mosconi MW & Sweeney JA , Cerebellum , ; (In Press)

Human reversal learning under conditions of certain versus uncertain outcomes.

D?Cruz A-M, Mosconi MW, Ragozzino ME, Pavuluri M, & Sweeney JA , NeuroImage , 2011; (56):315-322

Impaired cognitive control is associated with higher-order repetitive behaviors in autism spectrum disorders.

Mosconi MW, Kay M, Seidenfeld A, Guter S, Stanford LD, & Sweeney JA , Psychological Medicine , 2009; (39):1355-1366

Honors/Awards

NIH/NIMH K23 Career Development Award

(2010)

Autism Speaks Research Fellowship

(2009)

Society for Neural Control of Movement Conference Scholarship

(2009)

International Society for Autism Research Dissertation Award

(2007)

NIH Postdoctoral Training Fellowship Award

(2007)