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John Herrington, PhD
Developmental Neuroimaging Laboratory
3535 Market Street
Suite 860
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(267) 426-7542
I am the Associate Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Center for Autism Research. My research focuses on the neurobiology of emotion, social processes, and Autism-Spectrum Disorders (ASD). I am particularly interested in understanding the emotional
experiences of individuals with ASD - a topic that is often overlooked by scientists and service providers alike. As a clinician, issues of classification and diagnosis play a prominent role in my work, especially the similarity between aspects of ASD and anxiety disorders. One of my research goals is to establish whether ASD and some anxiety disorders (such as OCD and social phobia) share common neural mechanisms; if so, this may lead to significant changes in how we
conceptualize and treat ASD.
Another focus of my research is on how individuals become so highly skilled at processing social information in their environment (facial expressions, gestures, etc.), and how these processes may develop differently in ASD. I am presently carrying out a series of studies examining how visual perception areas may work in tandem with movement generation areas (such as premotor cortex) during the interpretation of gestures and body language. Although I use a variety of measures in my research, my primary area of expertise is structural and functional MRI.
Publications
Herrington J, Mohanty A, Koven N, Fisher J, Stewart J, Banich M, et al. Emotion-modulated performance and activity in left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Emotion. 2005. 5(2): 200-207.
Herrington JD, Baron-Cohen S, Wheelwright SJ, Singh KD, Bullmore ET, Brammer M, et al. The role of MT+/V5 during biological motion perception in Asperger Syndrome: An fMRI study. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2007. 1: 14-27.
Herrington JD, Koven NS, Miller GA, Heller W. Mapping the neural correlates of dimensions of personality, emotion and motivation. In Canli T, ed. Biology of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Guilford Publications, Inc, 2006.
Herrington JD, Sutton B, Miller GA. Data-file formats in neuroimaging: Background and tutorial. In Cacioppo JT, Tassinary LG, Berntson GG, eds. Handbook of psychophysiology 3rd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.