User:Horafugit/Mary V. Solanto
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Mary V. Solanto is an Associate Professor and Director of the ADHD Center in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Solanto’s career has been devoted to research and clinical work to improve understanding and treatment of ADHD. Her research on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children with ADHD, the effects of psychostimulants, and the delineation of subtypes of ADHD has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr. Solanto has also worked extensively with adults with ADHD. She developed a novel cognitive-behavioral intervention which targets problems of executive function in adults with ADHD and recently published the manual to guide therapists in providing that treatment (Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Dysfunction, Guilford Press).
Dr. Solanto has published numerous scholarly papers concerning ADHD in children and adults and is a frequent reviewer for professional journals. She has served as a grant reviewer on an NIMH study section. Currently, she is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Attention Disorders and the Journal of the recently formed American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders. Dr. Solanto edited a book (along with Amy Arnsten and Xavier Castellanos) titled: Stimulant Drugs and ADHD: Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, (Oxford University Press), which investigated the mechanisms of action of stimulants in ADHD.
Education
[edit]Solanto received her A.B. from Princeton University; an M.A. in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo. She completed a clinical internship at Case Western University Medical School/University Hospitals of Cleveland, followed by an NIMH sponsored post-doctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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