University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Harry Wright, M.D.

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Research Interests

Autistic disorder from a biopsychosocial-cultural perspective
-Neurotransmitters (serotonin
-Immunology (cell surface markers
-chromosomes (Fragile X) in autistic persons and family members

Cognitive/intellectual function, memory speech, attention

Mental Health of Pre-school children, especially parenting skills development as intervention

Recent Publications

Cuccaro, M, Holmes, G, and Wright, HH, Behavioral problems in Pre-school children: A pilot study, Psychological Reports 72: 121-122, 1993.

Curraro, M. Wright, HH, Abramson, R, Marstellar, F., Valentine, J. Whole blood 5HT and cognitive functioning in autistic individual and their first degree relatives, J. Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 5: 94-100, 1993.

R. Abramson, Wright, HH, Curraro, M, Lawrence, L., Babb, B, Pencarinha, D, Marstellar, F, Harris, E. Biological liability in families with autism, J. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 31: 370- 370 1992.

Education 

• MD 1976, Univ. Pennsylvania
  Psychiatry Residency William S. Hall Institute (Columbia)