Katherine Gotham

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Rowan University

Katherine Gotham is assistant professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Measuring alexithymia in autistic people

By Katherine Gotham, Zachary J. Williams
24 August 2021 | 6 min read
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Suicidal tendencies hard to spot in some people with autism

By Katherine Gotham
26 September 2017 | 7 min read
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Understanding aggression in autism

By Jennifer Richler, Katherine Gotham
5 December 2014 | 4 min read
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How persistent worrying might cause the blues

By Katherine Gotham
17 June 2014 | 5 min read

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