Stewart H. Mostofsky, M.D.

Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research, Kennedy Krieger Institute

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Stewart H. Mostofsky is a pediatric neurologist with subspecialty training and experience in pediatric behavioral neurology. He is a professor in the Department of Neurology and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Mostofsky has over 25 years of experience with the clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has served as the medical director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute for over a decade. In parallel, he has had extensive clinical research experience involving individuals with ASD, having served as the principal investigator on several National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded R01 projects involving the use of innovative behavioral, neuroimaging and brain stimulation techniques to investigate the neurologic basis of, and emerging therapeutic approaches for, developmental disorders, including ASD.

Funded Projects

Computerized assessment of motor imitation (CAMI): Advancing the validity and scalability of a promising phenotypic biomarker for autism

Awarded: 2020
Award Type: Pilot

SFARI Funded Publications

Evaluating Computerised Assessment of Motor Imitation (CAMI) for identifying autism-specific difficulties not observed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or neurotypical development. Santra R., Pacheco C., Crocetti D., Vidal R., Mostofsky S. H., Tunçgenç B.

Research Highlight

Examining the latent structure and correlates of sensory reactivity in autism: a multi-site integrative data analysis by the autism sensory research consortium. Williams Z.J., Schaaf R., Ausderau K.K., Baranek G.T., Barrett D.J., Cascio C.J., Dumont R.L., Eyoh E.E., Failla M.D., Feldman J.I., Foss-Feig J., Green H.L., Green S.A., He J.L., Kaplan-Kahn E.A., Keçeli-Kaysılı B., MacLennan K., Mailloux Z., Marco E.J., Mash L.E., McKernan E.P., Molholm S., Mostofsky S. H., Puts N.A.J., Robertson C., Russo N., Shea N., Sideris J., Sutcliffe J.S., Tavassoli T., Wallace M., Wodka E., Woynaroski T.G.