Physician
Psychiatry
Dr. Edward R. Ritvo, MD
Edward Ritvo practices Psychiatry. He went to Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University School of Medicine has a rank of 30 in research and a 52 in primary care Edward Ritvo is a published doctor as well. He has 70 publications published. The latest was: The effects of fluorescent and incandescent illumination upon repetitive behaviors in autistic children.
Publications
- Smiling Response, Stranger Anxiety, and Autistic Disorder.
- Excess mortality and causes of death in autism spectrum disorders: a follow up of the 1980s Utah/UCLA autism epidemiologic study.
- Autism spectrum disorder reclassified: a second look at the 1980s Utah/UCLA Autism Epidemiologic Study.
- The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R): A Scale to Assist the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults: An International Validation Study.
- Twenty-year outcome for individuals with autism and average or near-average cognitive abilities.
- A scale to assist the diagnosis of autism and Asperger's disorder in adults (RAADS): a pilot study.
- Clinical evidence that Asperger's disorder is a mild form of autism.
- WISC-R and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale scores in autistic children.
- The syndrome of autism: establishing the diagnosis and principles of management.
- Prediction of treatment response in bipolar, manic disorder.
- The effect of environmental stimulation upon the stereotyped behavior of autistic children.
- The effects of fluorescent and incandescent illumination upon repetitive behaviors in autistic children.
- Clinical application of the auditory averaged evoked response at sleep onset in the diagnosis of deafness.
- Frequency of repetitive behaviors in early infantile autism and its variants.
- Systematic observations of autistic behavior.
- The auditory evoked response in normal and autistic children during sleep.
- Perceptual inconstancy in early infantile autism. The syndrome of early infant autism and its variants including certain cases of childhood schizophrenia.
- Electroretinograms (ERGs) in four autistic probands and six first-degree relatives.
- Clinical neurophysiology. Newer diagnostic and therapeutic methods in neurological disease and behavior disorders.
- Concordance for the syndrome of autism in 40 pairs of afflicted twins.
- A magnetic resonance imaging study of autism: normal fourth ventricle size and absence of pathology.
- Pre-, peri-, and postnatal factors in 181 autistic patients from single and multiple incidence families.
- The syndrome of autism: a critical review.
- Effects of fenfluramine on eight outpatients with the syndrome of autism.
- Dispute over Rutter and Schopler (1987) article.
- Objectively defined linguistic parameters in children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
- Genetic and immunohematologic factors in autism.
- Behavioral characteristics of high- and low-IQ autistic children.
- Maturational changes in blood serotonin levels and platelet counts.
- Preliminary observations on the effect of fenfluramine on blood serotonin and symptoms in three autistic boys.
- A rapid accurate procedure for the determination of serotonin in whole human blood.
- Reappraisal of "Fenfluramine and autism: careful reappraisal is in order".
- Fenfluramine treatment of autism: UCLA collaborative study of 81 patients at nine medical centers.
- Retinal pathology in autistic children--a possible biological marker for a subtype?
- Psychometric assessment of first-degree relatives of 62 autistic probands in Utah.
- Effects of chronic fenfluramine on blood serotonin, cerebrospinal fluid metabolites, and behavior in monkeys.
- Fenfluramine effects on serotonergic measures in vervet monkeys.
- Current research on the syndrome of autism: introduction. The National Society for Autistic Children''s definition of the syndrome of autism.
- Evidence for autosomal recessive inheritance in 46 families with multiple incidences of autism.
- Parents of autistic boy sue for insurance coverage in Federal Court--and win! Autism is not a "mental illness".
- A comparison of potentially pathologic factors in European children with autism, Down's syndrome, and multiple physical handicaps.
- The stability of cognitive and linguistic parameters in autism: a five-year prospective study.
- The stability of cognitive and behavioral parameters in autism: a twelve-year prospective study.
- A scale for rating symptoms of patients with the syndrome of autism in real life settings.
- The Behavior Observation Scale for Autism: initial methodology, data analysis, and preliminary findings on 89 children.
- Behavior observation system for autism: analysis of behaviors among autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children.
- Behavior Observation Scale: perliminary analysis of the similarities and differences between autistic and mentally retarded children.
- Lower Purkinje cell counts in the cerebella of four autistic subjects: initial findings of the UCLA-NSAC Autopsy Research Report.
- Uptake and efflux of serotonin from platelets of autistic and nonautistic children.
- Increased blood serotonin and platelets in early infantile autism.
- Examination of circadian rhythmicity of blood serotonin and platelets in autistic and non-autistic children.
- Effects of fenfluramine on 14 outpatients with the syndrome of autism.
- Effects of L-dopa in autism.
- A report of one family with four autistic siblings and four families with three autistic siblings.
- The UCLA-University of Utah epidemiologic survey of autism: prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal factors.
- The UCLA-University of Utah epidemiologic survey of autism: recurrence risk estimates and genetic counseling.
- Untoward effects of fenfluramine in autistic children.
- Eleven possibly autistic parents.
- The UCLA-University of Utah epidemiologic survey of autism: prevalence.
- The UCLA-University of Utah epidemiologic survey of autism: the etiologic role of rare diseases.
- Clinical characteristics of mild autism in adults.
- Study of fenfluramine in outpatients with the syndrome of autism.
- Platelet size, number, and serotonin content in blood of autistic, childhood schizophrenic, and normal children.
- Electroretinograms in autism: a pilot study of b-wave amplitudes.
- The UCLA-University of Utah epidemiologic survey of autism: genealogical analysis of familial aggregation.
- Complex segregation analysis of autism.
- Hyperserotoninemia and antiserotonin antibodies in autism and other disorders.
- The Behavior Observation Scale for autism (BOS): initial results of factor analysis.
- The Swedish version of the Ritvo autism and asperger diagnostic scale: revised (RAADS-R). A validation study of a rating scale for adults.
Schools
Boston University School Of Medicine
Mass Meml Hospital
Boston Psychop Hospital
J Jackson Putnam Chldns Center
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Boston University Medical Center -
Boston University School of Medicine
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