Connor Puleo, M.A.

E-mail: connor.puleo@temple.edu

Bio: Connor is currently a fifth year doctoral student working with Dr. Phil Kendall in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic (CAADC). She received her B.A. in Psychology and English from Cornell University, and her M.A. in Psychology from Temple University. Connor is interested in differential predictors of treatment outcome as well as in the overlap of anxiety and autism spectrum disorders. Other interests include elucidating the relationship between sex differences, paternal age and genetic liability in autism spectrum disorders.

Representative presentations and/or publications

Puleo, C. M., Schmeidler, J., Reichenberg, A., Kolevzon, A., Sooyra, L., Buxbaum, J., & Silverman, J. M. (in press). Evidence for an association between advancing paternal age and simplex autism. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice.

Benjamin, C. L., Puleo, C. M., Settipani, C. A., Brodman, D. M., Edmunds, J. M., Cummings, C. M., & Kendall, P. C. (2011). History of cognitive-behavioral therapy in youth. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 20, 179-189.

Puleo, C. M., Conner, B. T., Benjamin, C. L., & Kendall, P. C. (2011). Re-examining the influence of CBT for childhood anxiety on substance use at 7.4-year follow-up. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25, 690-696.

Puleo, C. M., & Kendall, P. C. (2010). Autistic features in anxiety-disordered youth and differential responsiveness to cognitive-behavioral therapy. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 275-286.

Anello, A., Reichenberg, A., Luo, X., Schmeidler, J., Smith, C. J., Puleo, C. M., Corwin, T., Silverman, J. M. (2009). Paternal age and the sex ratio in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39 (10), 1487-1492.

Puleo, C. M., Reichenberg, A., Smith, C. J., Kyrzak, L. A., & Silverman, J. M. (2008). Do autism-related personality traits explain higher paternal age in autism? Molecular Psychiatry, 3, 243-244.