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| Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Information/Dissemination Research |
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| Discipline Coordinators: |
Psychiatry: Developmental |
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| Discipline(s): |
Psychiatry Neuroscience |
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| AUCD Council Membership: |
Council on Research and Evaluation |
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| Research: | Research interests include social neuroscience, neuroendrocinology and genetics. Current research focuses on biomarkers, neurochemical/genetic risk and treatments related to hormonal systems like oxytocin. | ||||||||||||||||
| Education: | Medical School, University of Chicago
Residency, UCLA Fellowship, University of Illinois | ||||||||||||||||
| Service: | Dr. Jacob's clinical specialties include developmental disorders that affect rigid, inflexible behaviors and social functioning including autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety and selective mutism. Treatment modalities include group, family and individual cognitive behavioral therapy along with medication management. | ||||||||||||||||
Vita/Bio
Dr. Jacob graduated from University of Chicago with honors the College and in Psychology before completing an MD/PhD program in Neurobiology. She went to UCLA for general psychiatry training and completed an extended clinical-research child fellowship at UIC. She is board certified in general adult as well as child & adolescent psychiatry.
