Selected Publications
Bradshaw, J., McCracken, C., Delehanty, A., Day, T., Klin, A., Klaiman, C., Saulnier, C., PIleggi, M., Brane, N., & Wetherby, A. (in press). Early social communication development in infants with autism spectrum disorder. Child Development.
Gipson, T.T., Ramsay, G., Ellison, E., Bene, E., Long, H.L., & Oller, D.K. (in press). Early vocal development in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Pediatric Neurology.
Jang, J., White, S.P., Esler, A.N., Kim, S.H., Klaiman, C., Megerian, J.T., Morse, A., Nadler, C., & Kanne, S.M. (2021). Diagnostic evaluations of autism spectrum disorder during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04960-7.
Kovacs-Balint, Z., Payne, C., Steele, J., Li, L., Styner, M., Bachevalier, J., Sanchez, M.M. (2021). Structural development of cortical lobes during the first 6 months of life in infant macaques. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48:100906.
Oller, D.K., Ramsay, G., Bene, E.., Long, H.L., & Griebel, U. (2021). Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B 376:20200255.
Bradshaw, J., Trumbull, A., Stapel-Wax, J., Gillespie, S., George, N., Saulnier, C., Klaiman, C., Woods, J., Call, N., Klin, A., & Wetherby, A. (2020). Factors associated with enrollment into a clinical trial of caregiver-implemented intervention for infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 24:1874-1884.
Constantino, J.N., Abbacchi, A.M., Saulnier, C., Klaiman, C., Zhang, Y., Hawks, Z.W., Bates, J., Klin, A., Mandell, D., Shattuck, P., Molholm, S., Fitzgerald, R., Roux, A., Lowe, J.K., & Geschwind, D.H. (2020). Timing of the diagnosis of autism in African American children. Pediatrics, 146:e20193629.
De Leon D, Nishitani S, Walum H, McCormack KM, Wilson ME, Smith AK, Young L, Sanchez MM. (2020). Methylation of OXT and OXTR genes, central oxytocin, and social behavior in female macaques. Hormones and Behavior 126:104856. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104856. PMID: 32979349. PMCID: PMC7725942.
Habayeb, S., Tsang, T., Saulnier, C., Klaiman, C., Jones, W., Klin, A., & Edwards, L.A. (2020). Visual traces of language acquisition in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder during the second year of life. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 51:2519-2530.
Klin, A., Micheletti, M., Klaiman, C., Shultz, S., Constantino, J.N., & Jones, W. (2020). Affording autism an early brain development re-definition. Development & Psychopathology, 17:1-15.
Micheletti, M., McCracken, C., Constantino, J., Mandell, D., Jones, W., & Klin, A. (2020). Outcomes of 24-36-month-old children with ASD vary by ascertainment strategy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 61:4-17.
Oller, D. K., Griebel, U., Bowman, D. D., Bene, E. R., Long, H. L., Yoo, H., Ramsay, G. (2020). Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls. Current Biology, 30:R417-R429.
Pincus, J., Koirala, S., Li, L., Klin, A., Jones, W., & Shultz, S. (2020). Viewer engagement modulates activation of social brain systems: evidence from a natural viewing fMRI paradigm. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 35(6):853.
Ranti, C., Jones, W., Klin, A., & Shultz, S. (2020). Blink rate patterns provide a reliable measure of individual engagement with scene content. Scientific Reports, 10:8267.
Wang, A., Payne, C., Moss, S., Jones, W.R., Bachevalier, J. (2020). Early developmental changes in visual social engagement in infant rhesus monkeys. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43:100778.
Bradshaw, J., Klin, A., Evans, L., Klaiman, C., Saulnier, C., & McCracken, C. (2019). Development of attention from birth to 5 months in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 32:491-501.
Klaiman, C., Saulnier, C. A., Rubin, E., Chawarska, K., & Klin, A. (2019). Clinical assessment of young children at risk for autism. In R. DelCarmen-Wiggins & A. Carter (Eds.) Handbook of Infant, Toddler and Preschool Mental Health Assessment. To be published in Oxford University Press.
Kovacs-Balint, Z., Feczko, E., Pincus, M., J., Howell, B., Morin E., Earl, E., Li, L., Steele, J., Styner, M., Bachevalier, J., Fair, D., Sanchez, M. (2019). Early developmental trajectories of functional connectivity along the visual pathways in rhesus monkeys. Cerebral Cortex, 29:3514-3526.
McDonald, N.M., Senturk, D., Scheffler, A., Brian, J.A., Carver, L.F., Charman, T., Chawarska, K., Curtin, S., Hertz-Piccioto, I., Jones, E.J.H., Klin, A., Landa, R., Messinger, D.S., Ozonoff, S., Stone, W.L., Tager-Flusberg, H., Webb, S.J., Young, G., Zwaigeanbaum, L., Jeste, S.S. (2019). Developmental trajectories of infants with multiplex family risk for autism: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study, JAMA Neurology, 77:73–81.
Pohl, A., Jones, W., Marrus, N., Zhang, Y., Klin, A., & Constantino, J.N. (2019), Behavioral predictors of autism recurrence are genetically independent and influence social reciprocity: Evidence that polygenic ASD risk is mediated by separable elements of developmental liability. Translational Psychiatry, 9(1):202
Ramsay G. (2019). Mechanical speech synthesis in early talking automata. Acoustics Today, 15:2.
Beacham, C., Reid, M., Bradshaw, J., Lambha, M., Evans, L., Gillespie, S., Klaiman, C., & Richardson, S.S. (2018). Screening for autism spectrum disorder: Profiles of children who are missed. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 39:673-682.
Bradshaw, J., Gillespie, S., Klaiman, C., Klin, A., & Saulnier, C. (2018). Early emergence of discrepancy in adaptive behavior and cognitive skills in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 23:1485-1496.
Klin, A. (2018). Biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder: challenges, advances, and the need for biomarkers of relevance to public health. Focus (American Psychiatric Association), 16(2) Biomarkers in Psychiatry: 135-142. doi: 10.1176/appi.focus.20170047.
Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2018). An agenda for 21st century neurodevelopmental medicine: Lessons from autism. Revista de Neurología, 66:S3-S15.
Li L, Bachevalier J, Hu X, Klin A, Preuss TM, Shultz S, Jones W (2018). Topology of the structural social brain network in typical adults. Brain Connectivity, 8(9):537-548. DOI: 10.1089/brain.2018.0592. PMID: 30280929. PMCID: PMC6249672.
Murphy, M.M., Burrell, T. L., Cubells, J., Espana, R. A., Gambello, M. J., Goines, K.C.B., Klaiman, C., Li, L., Novacek, D. M., Papetti, A., Russo, R. L. S., Saulnier, C. A., Shultz, S., Walker, E., & Mulle, J. (2018). Study protocol for the Emory 3q29 project: Evaluation of neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and medical symptoms in 3q29 Deletion Syndrome. BMC Psychiatry, 18:183.
Saulnier, C. & Klaiman, C. (2018). Essentials of Adaptive Behavior Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.
Shultz, S., Klin, A. & Jones, W. (2018). Neonatal transitions in social behavior and their implications for autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22:452-469.
Sifre, R., Olson, L., Gillespie, S., Klin, A., Jones, W., & Shultz, S. (2018). A longitudinal investigation of preferential attention to biological motion in 2- to 24-month-old infants. Scientific Reports, 8(1):2527.
Constantino, J.N., Kennon-Mcgill, S., Weichselbaum, C., Marrus, N., Haider, A., Glowinski, A.L., Gillespie, S., Klaiman, C., Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2017). Infant viewing of social scenes is under genetic control and is atypical in autism. Nature, 547(7663):340-344.
Moriuchi, J.M., Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2017). Mechanisms of diminished attention to eyes in autism. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(1):26-35.
Okuda, PMM, Klaiman, C., Bradshaw, J., Reid, M., & Cogo-Moreira, H. (2017). Assessing risk of bias in randomized controlled trials for autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers of Psychiatry, 8:265.
Klin, A., Shultz, S., & Jones, W. (2015). Social visual engagement in infants and toddlers with autism: early developmental transitions and a model of pathogenesis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 50, 189-203.
Jones, W., & Klin, A. (2013). Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2-6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature.
Rice, K., Moriuchi, J. M., Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2012). Parsing heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Visual scanning of dynamic social scenes in school-aged children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(3), 238-248.
Shultz, S., Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2011). Inhibition of eye blinking reveals subjective perceptions of stimulus salience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(52), 1–6.
Jones, W., & Klin, A. (2009). Heterogeneity and homogeneity across the autism spectrum: The role of development. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 48(5), 471-473.
Klin, A., Lin, D., Gorrindo, P., Ramsay, G., & Jones, W. (2009). Two-year-olds with autism orient to non-social contingencies rather than biological motion. Nature, 459(7244), 257-261.
Jones, W., Carr, K., & Klin, A. (2008). Absence of preferential looking to the eyes of approaching adults predicts level of social disability in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(8), 946-954.
Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2008). Altered face scanning and impaired recognition of biological motion in a 15-month-old infant with autism. Developmental Science, 11(1), 40-46.
Klin, A., Chawarska, K., Paul, R., Rubin, E. Morgan, T., Wiesner, L., & Volkmar, F.R. (2004). Autism in a 15-month-old child. American Journal of Psychiatry. 161(11), 1981-1988.
Klin, A., Jones, W., & Schultz, R. T. (2003). The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: Lessons from autism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 358, 345-360.
Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R.T., Volkmar, F.R., & Cohen, D. J. (2002). Defining and quantifying the social phenotype in autism. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159(6), 895-908.
Klin, A., Jones, W., Schultz, R.T., Volkmar, F.R., & Cohen, D. J. (2002). Visual fixation patterns during viewing of naturalistic social situations as predictors of social competence in individuals with autism. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 809-816.