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Adjunct rank detailsMax Rolison, MD
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Assistant Professor Adjunct in the Child Study Center
Biography
Max Rolison, MD is an Assistant Professor Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he holds clinical and research appointments at Boston Children's Hospital. He is an attending psychiatrist in the Complex Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (NDD) Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital and provides clinical care through the Behavioral Health Service and Pediatric Neuromodulation/ECT Service at Franciscan Children's Hospital.
Dr. Rolison's research focuses on measurement-based care as EHR-embedded clinical research infrastructure and on scalable, longitudinal phenotyping methods for neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dr. Rolison completed his MD, cum laude, at Yale School of Medicine, followed by residency and fellowship training in the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry, where he served as Deputy Chief Resident and Chief Fellow. His research training began in the McPartland Lab, focused on social neuroscience and neuroimaging in autism spectrum disorder.
Appointments
Child Study Center
Assistant Professor AdjunctPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Child Study Center
- Creed House Affiliates
- McPartland Lab
- Multi-modal Imaging, Neuroinformatics, & Data Science (MINDS) Laboratory
Education & Training
- Clinical Fellow
- Yale School of Medicine (2026)
- T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Yale School of Medicine (2026)
- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Child Psychiatry Fellow
- Boston Children's Hospital (2026)
- Resident Physician
- Yale School of Medicine (2025)
- MD
- Yale School of Medicine (2021)
- BS
- Yale University, Psychology (2015)
Research
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Medical Research Interests
ORCID
0000-0001-9534-3767
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Publications Timeline
Research Interests
Dustin Scheinost, PhD, BS
Stephanie Noble
James McPartland, PhD
Javid Dadashkarimi
Link Tejavibulya
Qinghao Liang
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autistic Disorder
Publications
2026
What effect sizes can we expect in functional neuroimaging?
Shearer H, Rosenblatt M, Ye J, Jiang R, Tejavibulya L, Foster M, Liang Q, Dadashkarimi J, Westwater M, Cheng I, Rolison M, Peterson H, Adkinson B, Mehta S, Camp C, Fischbach A, Cravo F, Meija A, Nichols T, Curtiss J, Scheinost D, Noble S. What effect sizes can we expect in functional neuroimaging? JoCN Forum 2026 DOI: 10.21428/8e6ba8ef.af9f794c.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEthical and Clinical Perspectives on Inpatient Psychiatric Care for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Rolison M, Kratlian C, Taylor L, Holder-Niles F, Siegel M. Ethical and Clinical Perspectives on Inpatient Psychiatric Care for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The American Journal Of Bioethics 2026, 26: 76-79. PMID: 42053536, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2026.2645589.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2025
BrainEffeX: A Web App for Exploring fMRI Effect Sizes
Shearer H, Rosenblatt M, Ye J, Jiang R, Tejavibulya L, Foster M, Liang Q, Dadashkarimi J, Westwater M, Cahill C, Cheng I, Fischbach A, Humphries A, Baskaran A, Rolison M, Peterson H, Adkinson B, Mehta S, Camp C, Nichols T, Curtiss J, Scheinost D, Noble S. BrainEffeX: A Web App for Exploring fMRI Effect Sizes. Aperture Neuro 2025, 5: 10.52294/001c.146251. PMID: 41675933, PMCID: PMC12889895, DOI: 10.52294/001c.146251.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricStructural and Clinical Factors Associated with Physical Restraint Use in a Pediatric Emergency Department
Rolison M, Adu M, Faustino I, Kumar A, Huang S, Powers E, Shabanova V, Wong A, Hoffman P, Tiyyagura G. Structural and Clinical Factors Associated with Physical Restraint Use in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2025, 7: 100277. PMID: 41321938, PMCID: PMC12657716, DOI: 10.1016/j.acepjo.2025.100277.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricThe Emergence of a Psychodynamic Conceptualization of Childhood in the United States
Rolison M, Shulman K, Neustadter E, Accordino R. The Emergence of a Psychodynamic Conceptualization of Childhood in the United States. Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 2025, 34: e19-e30. PMID: 40846347, DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2025.06.001.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsTrends in self-citation rates in high-impact neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry journals
Rosenblatt M, Mehta S, Peterson H, Dadashkarimi J, Rodriguez R, Foster M, Adkinson B, Liang Q, Kimble V, Ye J, McCusker M, Farruggia M, Rolison M, Westwater M, Jiang R, Noble S, Scheinost D. Trends in self-citation rates in high-impact neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry journals. ELife 2025, 12: rp88540. PMID: 40366360, PMCID: PMC12077878, DOI: 10.7554/elife.88540.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricTrends in self-citation rates in high-impact neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry journals
Rosenblatt M, Mehta S, Peterson H, Dadashkarimi J, Rodriguez R, Foster M, Adkinson B, Liang Q, Kimble V, Ye J, McCusker M, Farruggia M, Rolison M, Westwater M, Jiang R, Noble S, Scheinost D. Trends in self-citation rates in high-impact neurology, neuroscience, and psychiatry journals. ELife 2025, 12 DOI: 10.7554/elife.88540.4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDisrupted Resting‐State Functional Connectivity in the Social Visual Pathway in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Li C, Park H, Awasthi J, Rolison M, Li M, Scheinost D, Chawarska K, Hampson M. Disrupted Resting‐State Functional Connectivity in the Social Visual Pathway in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research 2025, 18: 1024-1036. PMID: 40183221, DOI: 10.1002/aur.70037.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2024
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Rutten M, Zhong J, Rolison M, Sukhodolsky D. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). 2024, 734-743. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-95702-1.00076-2.BooksCitations
2023
Revisiting best practices: a reflection on the online evaluation and treatment of ADHD and implications for future practice
Rolison M, Bloch M. Revisiting best practices: a reflection on the online evaluation and treatment of ADHD and implications for future practice. Child And Adolescent Psychiatry And Mental Health 2023, 17: 43. PMID: 36978153, PMCID: PMC10043842, DOI: 10.1186/s13034-023-00593-z.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersCitationsAltmetric
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
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Activities
activity Frontiers in Psychiatry
09/18/2023 - PresentJournal ServiceEditorial Board Memberactivity American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2017 - PresentProfessional OrganizationsMemberactivity International Society for Autism Research
2011 - PresentProfessional OrganizationsMemberactivity Scientific Reports
2021 - PresentJournal ServiceRevieweractivity Research in Autism Spectrum Disorder
2023 - PresentJournal ServiceReviewer
Honors
honor David and Harriet Seligson Thesis Prize
05/24/2021Yale School of Medicine AwardYale School of MedicineDetailsUnited Stateshonor Farr Scholar
05/13/2021Yale School of Medicine AwardYale School of MedicineDetailsUnited Stateshonor Vernon W. Lippard, M.D., Student Summer Research Fellowship in Pediatrics
06/01/2018Yale School of Medicine AwardYale School of MedicineDetailsUnited Stateshonor Travel Award
05/01/2017, 05/01/2016International AwardInternational Society for Autism ResearchDetailsUnited Stateshonor Autism Program Scientific Poster Prize
06/01/2014Yale School of Medicine AwardYale School of MedicineDetailsUnited States
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News
- June 25, 2026
Yale Child Study Center Recognizes Spring 2026 Award Recipients and Retirees
- July 14, 2025
Department of Psychiatry Honors Residents, Fellows, Faculty, Staff at 2025 Annual Commencement Ceremonies
- May 13, 2025
Yale Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Chief Residents/Fellows Announced for 2025-2026
- July 08, 2024
2024 trainee pilot research award recipients announced
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