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Nancy Snidman
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Nancy Snidman received her Ph.D. in Learning from the University of California, Los Angeles. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in the Psychology Department at Harvard University she became Research Director for the Infant Study at Harvard where she conducted research for over two decades specializing in the psychophysiological correlates of infant temperament.

She is author with Jerome Kagan of The Long Shadow of Temperament (2004) which traces their 25 years of longitudinal studies of behaviorally inhibited and uninhibited children.

She is also Director of EEG Research for TRANSCEND (Treatment, Research And NeuroSCience Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) at Massachusetts General Hospital. The focus of this program is to develop profiles of measures for early identification of autism.

Dr. Snidman's interests include biological correlates of temperament and individual differences, autism, and socio-emotional development. Her research has included typically developing children as well as studies into the relationship between psychobiology and psychopathology with a number of clinical populations including children of parents who have panic attacks or depression, and children with depression, burn trauma and children of international adoptions.

Currently, Dr. Snidman is the Director of Research, at the Child Development Unit, Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Snidman is widely published, with approximately 75 original peer-reviewed articles in addition to numerous abstracts, chapters and reviews, and is nationally and internationally renowned for her research and multiple collaborations in child development.

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