Sara Jane Webb, PhD

Faculty Appointment(s)

Professor

Leadership Role(s)

Faculty Liaison, Office for Teaching, Education and Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute

Associate Director & Director of the Clinical Translational Core, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center

Steering Board, Molecular Medicine & Mechanisms of Disease, University of Washington

sjwebb@uw.edu

206-884-1160

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Personal Statement

My research focuses on understanding the development of neural circuits that contributing to and underlie social development. Our lab uses a number of different tools: primarily electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs), but also eye tracking, cardiophysiology (EKG), neuroimaging, and behavioral measures to study how infants, children, and adults perceive, attend and learn about their social environment. Our projects also focus on the development and validation of biomarkers that may be used to understand the course of development and treatment response in children with disruption in social and communication function such as autism spectrum disorder, 16p11.2 deletion syndrome, and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Education

Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Illinois, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science, 2001
Clinical Electrophysiology, University of Washington, Center on Human Development & Disability, 2001-2004
PhD, Child Psychology, University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development, 1996-2001
BA, Psychology, Yale University, 1992-1996

Department Affiliations

Centers/Programs

Other Affiliations

Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Center on Child Health, Behavior, & Development

Recent Publications

Mobile Media Content Exposure and Toddlers' Responses to Attention Prompts and Behavioral Requests.
(2024 Jul 1)
JAMA Netw Open 7(7): e2418492
Webb SJ, Howard W, Garrison M, Corrigan S, Quinata S, Taylor L, Christakis DA
A common genetic variant in the Neurexin family member CNTNAP2 is related to language but not communication skills in youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
(2024 Jul 10)
Autism Res
Arutiunian V, Santhosh M, Neuhaus E, Sullivan CAW, Bernier RA, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Geschwind DH, Jack A, McPartland JC, Van Horn JD, Pelphrey KA, Gupta AR, Webb SJ, ACE GENDAAR Network
Parsing evoked and induced gamma response differences in Autism: A visual evoked potential study.
(2024 Jun 8)
Clin Neurophysiol 165(): 55-63
Dickinson A, Ryan D, McNaughton G, Levin A, Naples A, Borland H, Bernier R, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Dziura J, Faja S, Kleinhans N, Sugar C, Senturk D, Shic F, Webb SJ, McPartland JC, Jeste S, Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials
Modeling intra-individual inter-trial EEG response variability in autism.
(2024 Jul 30)
Stat Med 43(17): 3239-3263
Dong M, Telesca D, Guindani M, Sugar C, Webb SJ, Jeste S, Dickinson A, Levin AR, Shic F, Naples A, Faja S, Dawson G, McPartland JC, Şentürk D
Time is of the essence: Age at autism diagnosis, sex assigned at birth, and psychopathology.
(2024 May 9)
Autism
Smith JV, McQuaid GA, Wallace GL, Neuhaus E, Lopez A, Ratto AB, Jack A, Khuu A, Webb SJ, Verbalis A, Pelphrey KA, Kenworthy L
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