Academic Title
Affiliation
Major Area(s) of Study
Professor SDSU Neuropsychology
     
E-mail
Phone
Address
sarah.mattson@sdsu.edu 619-594-7228 Center for Behavioral Teratology / 6330 Alvarado Court, Suite 100 / San Diego, CA 92120
Website

psychology.sdsu.edu/people/sarah-mattson

Graduate Institution

SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology

Research Description

In general, my research focuses on brain and behavior in children with developmental disabilities. Specifically, I am interested in the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol and other substances and study these using neuropsychological and neuroimaging techniques. Recent studies have focused on specifiying the neurobehavioral profile of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), examining aspects of attention and response inhibition in children with FASD, and examining cogntion in a rare genetic condition known as Jacobsen syndrome (11q terminal deletion disorder).

Representative Publications

  • O’Brien, J.W., Norman, A.L., Fryer, S.L., Tapert, S.F., Paulus, M.P., Jones, K.L., Riley, E.P., and Mattson, S.N. (2013). Effect of predictive cuing on response inhibition in children with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, in press. / DOI: 10.1111/acer.12017 / http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23094678

  • Mattson, S.N., Roesch, S.C., Glass, L., Deweese, B.N., Coles, C.D., Kable, J.A., May, P.A., Kalberg, W.O., Sowell, E.R., Adnams, C.M., Jones, K.L., Riley, E.P., and the CIFASD (2013). Further development of a neurobehavioral profile of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37 (3): 517-528. / DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01952.x / http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22974253

  • Mattson, S.N., Crocker, N., and Nguyen, T.T. (2011). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Neuropsychological and behavioral features. Neuropsychology Review, 21 (2): 81-101. / DOI: 10.1007/s11065-011-9167-9 / PMCID: PMC3410672 / http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21503685