Specialty Areas: Behavioral and Neuroimaging studies of ADHD, Autism and related disorders.

Nicoletta Adamo, M.D., is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Phyllis Green and Randolph Cōwen Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience of the NYU Child Study Center. Dr. Adamo specializes in cognitive behavioral and neuroimaging research in children with ADHD and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Dr. Adamo received her medical degree magna cum laude at the University of Cagliari (Italy). She then completed her residency program in child and adolescent psychiatry and pediatric neurology at the University of Cagliari. During her residency program, while on an elective rotation in the unit for child/adolescence psychopharmacology, Dr. Adamo assisted conducting research studies on the efficacy and tolerability of stimulant and non-stimulant medications for ADHD. She then participated in the design, data collection, and analyses of a project focusing on cognitive measures indexing lapses of attention in ADHD.

Dr. Adamo presented her works about behavioral measures of attention in children with ADHD in several national and international conferences and received a Young Scientists Award from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) in 2009. In 2010, Dr. Adamo completed the clinical training for the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), and started the research reliability training for both the ADOS and Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised.