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Hatch B, Andrews DS, Dufour B, Alavynejad SM, Lee JK, Rogers S, Solomon M, Miller M, Wu Nordahl C. Hypothalamic volume is associated with dysregulated sleep in autistic and non-autistic young children. Autism. 2025 Nov;29(11):2885-2897. doi: 10.1177/13623613251352249. Epub 2025 Jul 9. PubMed PMID: 40631628; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12531386.select

Andrews DS, Dakopolos AJ, Lee JK, Heath B, Cordero D, Solomon M, Amaral DG, Nordahl CW. Cortical Thickness Differences in Autistic Children With and Without Intellectual Disability. Autism Res. 2025 Mar;18(3):486-497. doi: 10.1002/aur.3313. Epub 2025 Jan 30. PubMed PMID: 39887572; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11928918.select

Nishizaki SS, Haghani NK, La GN, Mariano NAF, Uribe-Salazar JM, Kaya G, Regester M, Andrews DS, Nordahl CW, Amaral DG, Dennis MY. m(6)A-mRNA Reader YTHDF2 Identified as a Potential Risk Gene in Autism With Disproportionate Megalencephaly. Autism Res. 2025 May;18(5):966-982. doi: 10.1002/aur.3314. Epub 2025 Jan 30. PubMed PMID: 39887636; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12123175.select

Surgent O, Andrews DS, Lee JK, Boyle J, Dakopolos A, Miller M, Ozonoff S, Rogers SJ, Solomon M, Amaral DG, Nordahl CW. Sex Differences in the Striatal Contributions to Longitudinal Fine Motor Development in Autistic Children. Biol Psychiatry. 2025 Jun 15;97(12):1150-1162. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.01.005. Epub 2025 Jan 14. PubMed PMID: 39818327; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12124950.select

Dwyer P, Sillas A, Prieto M, Camp E, Nordahl CW, Rivera SM. Hyper-focus, sticky attention, and springy attention in young autistic children: Associations with sensory behaviors and cognitive ability. Autism Res. 2024 Aug;17(8):1677-1695. doi: 10.1002/aur.3174. Epub 2024 Jun 5. PubMed PMID: 38840328; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11341259.

Restrepo B, Taylor SL, Dominic Ponzini M, Angkustsiri K, Solomon M, Rogers SJ, Ashwood P, Say DS, Caceres S, Alavynejad S, Heath B, Amaral DG, Wu Nordahl C. A longitudinal evaluation of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism. 2025 Nov;29(11):2832-2845. doi: 10.1177/13623613251362349. Epub 2025 Aug 28. PubMed PMID: 40877047; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12404668.

Kadlaskar G, Mao PH, Iosif AM, Amaral DG, Rogers S, Nordahl CW, Miller M. Patterns of Sensory Processing in Young Children with Autism: Differences in Autism Characteristics, Adaptive Skills, and Attentional Problems, in press, Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice

Davis K, Iosif A-M, Nordahl CW, Solomon M, Krug MK. Video game use, aggression, and social impairment in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder, in press, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Waizbard-Bartov E, Ferrer E, Heath B, Rogers SJ, Nordahl CW, Solomon M, Amaral DG. (2022) Identifying autism symptom severity trajectories across childhood. Autism Research. Apr;15(4):687-701

A Rutherford S, Fraza C, Dinga R, Kia SM, Wolfers T, Zabihi M, Berthet P, Worker A, Verdi S, Andrews D, Han L, Bayer JM, Dazzan P, McGuire P, Mocking RT, Schene A, Sripada C, Tso IF, Duval ER, Chang SE, Pennix BW, Heitzeg MM, Burt SA, Hyde L, Amaral D, Wu Nordahl C, Andreasssen OA, Westlye LT, Zahn R, Ruhe HG, Beckmann C, Marquand AF. Charting brain growth and aging at high spatial precision. Elife. 2022 Feb 1;11.           

Nordahl CW, Andrews DS, Dwyer P, Waizbard-Bartov E, Restrepo B, Lee JK, Heath B, Saron C, Rivera SM, Solomon M, Ashwood P, Amaral DG. (2022) The Autism Phenome Project: working towards identifying clinically meaningful subgroups of autism. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Jan17;15:786220.

Winder-Patel B, Tudor ME, Kerns CM, Davis K, Nordahl CW, Amaral DG, Solomon M. Often undiagnosed but treatable: Case vignettes and clinical considerations for assessing anxiety disorders in youth with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. (2022) Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 7(1), 24-40.

Johnson EG, Mooney L, Graf Estes K, Nordahl CW, Ghetti S. (2021) Activation for newly learned words in left medial-temporal lobe during toddlers’ sleep is associated with memory for words. Current Biology Dec20;31(24):5429-5438.

Yarger HA, Nordahl CW, Redcay E. Examining associations between amygdala volumes and anxiety symptoms in autism spectrum disorder. (2022) Biological Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. Sep;7(9):916-924.

Godel M, Andrews DS, Amaral DG, Ozonoff S, Young GS, Lee JK, Wu Nordahl C, Schaer M. (2021) Altered gray-white matter boundary contrast in toddlers at risk for autism relates ot later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder  Frontiers in Neuroscience.15:669194.

Lee JK, Andrews DS, Ozonoff S, Solomon M, Rogers S, Amaral DG, Nordahl CW. (2021) Longitudinal evaluation of cerebral growth across childhood in boys and girls with autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychiatry Sep1;90(5):286-294.

Andrews DS, Lee JK, Harvey DJ, Waizbard-Bartov E, Solomon M, Rogers SJ, Nordahl CW, Amaral DG. (2021) A longitudinal study of white matter development in relation to changes in autism severity across early childhood. Biological Psychiatry. Mar1;89(5):424-432