Physician Investigator (Cl) Lurie Center for Autism, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School

Neurologist Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Pediatrician Pediatric Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

MD Dartmouth Medical School 1987

autism; autism spectrum disorder; autistic disorder; bone and bones; bone density; child development disorders pervasive; fractures bone; muscles; muscular dystrophies; puberty; sequence deletion; serotonin uptake inhibitors; stem cell transplantation Dr. Neumeyer's research relates to understanding medical issues which occur with autism spectrum disorders and to systematically develop and assess treatment processes to improve the patient and family experience with the medical system.

She is a co-Principal Investigator for the Autism Treatment Network (ATN), a national and international network of academic sites, looking at sleep, gastrointestinal and neurological disorders experienced by many Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) children and adolescents.  

With funding from HRSA/The Autism Intervention Research Project she has published the first studies showing  that bone is not properly developed or mineralized in boys with autism and that this may be due to less exercise as well as nutritional and other factors .