Publications

2024

• Beckerson, M., Paisley, C., Murdaugh, D., Holm, H., Lemelman, A., Spencer, A., O’Kelley, S., Kana, R.K. (2024). Reading Comprehension Improvement in Autism. Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol. 15. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1292018
• Smitha, K.A., Stavrinos, D., Argueta, P., Vanderburgh, C., Holm, H.B., Kana, R.K. (in press). Thalamic Functional Connectivity and Sensorimotor Processing in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Frontiers in Neuroscience.
• McManus, B., Kana, R. K., Rajpari, I., Holm, H. B., & Stavrinos, D. (in press). Risky driving behavior among individuals with autism, ADHD, and typically developing persons. Accident Analysis & Prevention.
• Coburn, K. L., Miller, G. N., Martin, L. A., Kana, R. K. (in press). A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Deception Detection by Neurodiverse Young Adults. Topics in Language Disorders. 

2023

• Smitha, K.A., Stavrinos, D., Holm, H.B., Anteraper, S.A., Kana, R.K. (2023). Alterations of Functional Connectivity in Autism and ADHD revealed by Multi-voxel Pattern Analysis. Brain Connectivity. 
• Soylu, F., May, K.E., Kana, R.K. (2023). White and Gray Matter Correlates of Theory of Mind in Autism: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study. Brain Structure and Function. 
• Beckerson, M.E., Remmel, R.J., Glenn, A.L., Kana, R.K. (2023). Psychopathic Traits and Social Brain Responses during Moral Evaluation in Adolescence. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 
• White, S.W., Siegle, G.J., Kana, R.K., Rothman, E.F. (2023). Pathways to Psychopathology among Autistic Adults. Current Psychiatry Reports. 
• Kurtz, M.R., Kana, R.K., Rivera, D.L., Newman, S.D. (2023). The Role of the Broader Autism Phenotype in Anxiety and Depression in College-Aged Adults. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 
• Watkins, L., White, S.W., McDaniel, S., Fedewa, M., Cohen, D., & Kana, R. K. (2023). Including students with autism within the PBIS framework: Recommendations for research and research-informed practice. Preventing School Failure.
• ​Duvall, L., May, K.E., Waltz, A., Kana, R.K. (2023). The Neurobiological Map of Theory of Mind and Pragmatic Communication in Autism. Social Neuroscience.
• Smitha, K.A., Coburn, K.L., Beckerson, M.E., Kana, R.K. (2023). Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations during Resting State fMRI in Autistic Children. Autism Research 16(1):84-98. 
• Wagner, W.P., Bednarz, H.M., Bishop, H.J., Kana, R.K., Stavrinos, D. (2023). Driving Attitudes and Avoidance in Drivers with ASD or ADHD. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
• Tomeny, T., Hudac, C., Malaia, E., Morett, L., Tomeny, K., Watkins, L., Kana, R.K. (2023). Serving individuals with autism spectrum disorder in the age of COVID-19: Special considerations for rural families. Rural Special Education Quarterly.

2022

• Coburn, K. L., Kurtz, M. R., Rivera, D., & Kana, R. K. (2022). Behavioral and neurobiological evidence for the effects of reading interventions on autistic children: A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
• Beattie, J.F., Martin, R.C., Cook III, E.W., Thompson, M.D., Kana, R.K., Jacobs, R.Q., Correya, T.A., Ramaniharan, A.K., Ver Hoef, L.W. (2022). Hippocampal Dentation in Children and Adolescents: a cross-sectional analysis from birth to 18. Anatomia.
• May, K.E., Martino, M.A., Kana, R.K. (2022). Emotional Cognition, Theory of Mind, and Face Recognition in Individuals with Autism and PDDs. In Matson, J.L & Sturmey, P (Eds.). Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Volume 1, pp. 113-134. Springer. 
• Rivera, D.L., Miller, G.N., Kana, R.K. (2022). Diagnostic and Sex Differences in Symptom Profile and Cognitive Ability in Autism. JOSHUA: Journal of Science and Health at the University of Alabama. 
• May, K.E., Kana, R.K. (2022). What the Brain can Teach Us about Higher-Level Thinking in Autism. Frontiers for Young Minds. DOI: 10.3389/frym.2022.644822.
• Leach, J.M, Edwards, L.J., Kana, R.K., Visscher, K., Yi, N., Aban, I., Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2022). Spike-and-Slab Elastic Net as a Classification Tool in Alzheimer’s Disease. PLOS One. Feb 3;17(2): e0262367. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262367. PMID: 35113902.

2021

• Bednarz, H., Stavrinos, D., Svancara, A.M., Sherrod, G.M., McManus, B., Deshpande. H.D., & Kana, R.K. (in press). Executive Function Brain Network Activation predicts Driving Hazard Detection in ADHD. Brain Topography. 
• Svancara, A.M., Kana, R.K., Bednarz, H., Sherrod, G., Visscher, K., McManus, B., & Stavrinos, D. (2021) Time-to-Collision Estimations in Young Drivers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
• Loomba, N., Beckerson, M.E., Ammons, C.J., Maximo, J.O., & Kana, R.K. (2021). Corpus Callosum Size and Homotopic Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Jul 30;313:111301.
• Bednarz, H.M., Kana, R.K., Svancara, A.M., Sherrod, G.M., Stavrinos, D. (2021). Neuropsychological Predictors of Driving Hazard Detection in Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD. Child Neuropsychology. Apr 21:1-31. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2021.1908531. 
• Maximo, J.O., Nelson, C.M., & Kana, R.K. (2021). “Unrest while Resting?”: Brain Entropy in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Brain Research. Jul 1;1762:147435. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147435.
• Bednarz, H.M., Stavrinos, D., Svancara, A.M., Sherrod, G.M., Deshpande, H.D., & Kana, R.K. (2021). Behind the wheels with autism and ADHD: Brain networks involved in driving hazard detection. Traffic Psychology & Behavior.
• Ammons, C.J., Winslett, M.E., & Kana, R.K. (2021). Neural Responses to Viewing Human Faces in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis of Two Decades of Research. Neuropsychologia. Jan 8;150:107694. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107694.

2020

2019

• McDonough, I., Letang, S., Erwin, H., Kana, R.K (2019). Evidence for Maintained Post-Encoding Memory Consolidation across the Adult Lifespan Revealed by Network Complexity. Entropy, 21(11), 1072.
• Kana, R.K., Hudac, C.M., White, S.W. (2019). Developmental Considerations of Comorbidity in Autism Spectrum Disorder: the need for science across multiple units of analysis. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging, 4(12):1016-1017.
• Moon, S.J., Hwang, J.S., Kana, R.K., Torous, J., Kim, J.W. (in press). Diagnostic test accuracy for use of machine learning in diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(12):e14108.
• Bednarz, H.M., & Kana, R.K. (in press). Patterns of cerebellar connectivity with intrinsic connectivity networks in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 49(11):4498-4514. doi: 10.1007/s10803-019-04168-w.
• Amaral, D.G., Anderson, G.M.,……Kana, R.K., et al. (2019). Gaps in Current Autism Research: The thoughts of the Autism Research Editorial Board and Associate Editors. Autism Research, 12(5):700-714.
• Maximo, J.O., Kana, R.K. (2019). Aberrant “deep connectivity” in autism: a cortico-subcortical functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Autism Research, 12(3), 384-400.

2018

• Bednarz, H.M., & Kana, R.K. (2018). Advances, Challenges, and Promises in Pediatric Neuroimaging of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Jul; 90:50-69.
• Herringshaw, A. J., Kumar, S.L., Rody, K. N., & Kana, R. K. (2018). Neural Correlates of Social Perception in Children with Autism: Local versus Global Preferences. Neuroscience, 15 (395), 49-59.
• Robinson, J., Erath, S., Kana, R.K., Sheikh, M. (2018). What a difference a night makes: Neurophysiological differences in the adolescent brain following a single night of restricted sleep – A 7T fMRI study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Jun, 31:1-10.
• Thye, M.D., Ammons, C.J., Murdaugh, D. L., Kana, R.K. (2018). Differential recruitment of Theory of Mind Brain Network across three tasks: an independent component analysis. Behavioral Brain Research, 347:385-393.
• Thye, M.D., Murdaugh, D.L., & Kana, R.K. (2018). Brain mechanisms underlying Reading the Mind in the Eyes, Voice, and Actions. Neuroscience, 374: 172-186. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.01.045.
• Ammons, C.J., Doss, C.F., Bala, D., & Kana, R.K. (2018). Brain responses underlying Anthropomorphism, Agency, and Social Attribution in Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Open Neuroimaging Journal, 12, 3-00.
• Thye, M.D., & Kana, R.K. (2018). Neurobiology of Autism. Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. Wiley.

2017

• Wadsworth, H.M., Maximo, J.O., Donnelly, R.J., & Kana, R.K. (2017). Action simulation and mirroring in children with autism spectrum disorders. Behavioral Brain Research, 13; 341: 1-8.
• Maximo, J.O., Murdaugh, D.L., O’Kelley, S.E., Kana, R.K. (2017). Changes in Intrinsic Local Functional Connectivity in Children with Autism Following a Visualizing/Verbalizing Reading Intervention. Brain and Language. 175:11-17.
• Uddin, L.Q., Dajani, D., Voorhies, W., Bednarz, H., Kana, R.K. (2017). Progress and Roadblocks in the search for brain-based biomarkers of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 7, doi: 10.1038/tp.2017.164.
• Murdaugh, D.L., Maximo, J.O., Cordes, C.E., O’Kelley, S., Kana, R.K. (2017). From word reading to multisentence comprehension: Improvements in brain activity in children with autism after reading intervention. Neuroimage: Clinical. 16: 303-312.
• Thye, M.D., Bednarz, H., Herringshaw, A., Sartin, E., Kana, R.K. (2017). The Impact of Atypical Sensory Processing on Social Impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.04.010
• Kana, R.K., Sartin, E.B., Stevens Jr, C.E., Deshpande, H.D., Klinger, M., Klinger, L.G. (2017). Neural Networks Underlying Language and Social Cognition during Self-Other Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Neuropsychologia. 102:116-123.
• Fleming Beattie, J., Martin, R.C., Kana, R.K., Deshpande, H., Lee, S., Cure, J., Ver Hoef, L. (2017). Hippocampal Dentation: structural variation and its association with episodic memory in healthy adults. Neuropsychologia, 101:65-75.
• Bednarz, H.M., Maximo, J.O., Murdaugh, D.L., O’Kelley, S., Kana, R.K. (2017). “Decoding versus Comprehension”: brain responses underlying reading comprehension in children with autism. Brain and Language, 169, 39-47.
• Wadsworth, H.M., Maximo, J.O., Lemelman, A.R., Clayton, K., Sivaraman, S., Deshpande, H.D., Ver Hoef, L., Kana, R. K. (2017). The Action Imitation Network and Motor Imitation in Children and Adolescents with Autism Research. Neuroscience. Feb 20; 343:147-156.

2016

• Libero, L.E., Burge, W., Deshpande, H.D., Pestilli, F., & Kana, R.K. (2016). White matter difussion of major fiber tracts implicated in autism spectrum disorder. Brain Connectivity (Epub ahead of print).
• Patriquin, M.A., DeRamus, T.P., Libero, L.E., Laird, A. & Kana, R.K. (2016). Neuroanatomical and neurofunctional markers of social cognition in autism spectrum disorders. Human Brain Mapping (epud ahead of print).
• Neupane, A., Saxena, N., Maximo, J.O., & Kana, R.K. (2016). Neural markers of cybersecurity: An fMRI study of phishing, and malware warnings. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 11(9), 1970-1983.
• Maximo, J.O., Neupane, A., Saxena, N., Joseph, R.M., & Kana, R.K. (2016). Task-dependent changes in Frontal-Parietal activation and connectivity during visual search. Brain Connectivity, 6(4), 335-344.
• Herringshaw, A.J., Ammons, C.J., DeRamus, T.P., & Kana, R.K. (2016). Hemispheric differences in language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Autism Research (Epub ahead of print).
• Murdaugh, D.L., Deshpande, H.D., & Kana, R.K. (2016). The impact of reading intervention on brain responses underlying language in children with autism. Autism Research, 9(1), 141-154.

2015

• Kana, R.K., Maximo, J.O., Williams, D.L., Keller, T.A., Schipul, S.E., Cherkassky, V.L., Minshew, N.J., & Just, M.A. (2015). Aberrant functioning of the Theory-of-Mind network in children and adolescents with autism. Molecular Autism, 6: 59.
• Kana, R.K., Ammons, C.J., Doss, C.F., Waite, M.E., Kana, B., Herringshaw, A.J., & Ver Hoef, L.W. (2015). Language and motor cortex response to comprehending accidental and intentional action sentences. Neuropsychologia, 77, 158-164. 
• Libero, L.E., Reid, M.A., White, D.M., Salibi, N., Lahti, A.C., & Kana, R.K. (2015). Biochemistry of the cingulate cortex in autism: an MR Spectroscopy study. Autism Research, 9(6), 643-657.
• Gregory, A.M., Nenert, R., Allendorfer, J.B., Martin, R., Kana, R.K., & Szaflarski, J.P. (2015). The effect of medial temporal lobe epilepsy on visual memory encoding. Epilepsy & Behavior, 46, 173-184.
• Murdaugh, D.L., Maximo, J.O., & Kana, R.K. (2015). Changes in intrinsic connectivity of the brain’s reading network following intervention in children with autism. Human Brain Mapping, 36(8), 2965-2979.
• Kana, R.K., Patriquin, M., Black, B.C., Channell, M.M., & Wicker, B. (2015). Altered medial frontal and superior temporal response to implicit processing of emotions in autism. Autism Research, 9(1), 55-66.
• Libero, L.E., DeRamus, T.P., Lahti, A.C., Deshpande, G., & Kana, R.K. (2015). Multimodal neuroimaging based classification of autism spectrum disorder using anatomical, neurochemical, and white matter correlates. Cortex, 66, 46-59.
• DeRamus, T. P., & Kana, R. K. (2015). Anatomical likelihood estimation meta-analysis of grey and white matter anomalies in autism spectrum disorders. NeuroImage: Clinical, 7, 525-536.

2014

• Libero, L.E., Maximo, J.O., Deshpande, H.D., Klinger, L.G., Klinger, M.R., & Kana, R.K. (2014). The role of mirroring and mentalizing networks in mediating action intentions in autism. Molecular Autism, 5: 50.
• Travers, B.G., Klinger, M.R., Klinger, L.G., Klein, C.K., & Kana, R.K. (2014). Motor learning in persons with autism spectrum disorder: Group differences in superior parietal lobule related to learning and repetitive behaviors. Autism Research, 8(1), 38-51.
• DeRamus, T.P., Black, B.C., Pennick, M.R., & Kana, R.K. (2014). Enhanced parietal cortex activation during location detection in children with autism. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 6(1), 37.
• Murdaugh, D.L., Nadendla, K.D., & Kana, R.K. (2014). Differential role of temporoparietal junction and medial prefrontal cortex in causal inference in autism: an independent component analysis. Neuroscience Letters, 568, 50-55.
• Maximo, J.O., Cadena, E.J., & Kana, R.K. (2014). The implications of brain connectivity in the neuropsychology of autism. Neuropsychology Review, 24(1), 16-31.
• Libero, L.E., Stevens, C.E., Jr., & Kana, R.K. (2014). Attribution of emotions to body postures: An independent component analysis study of functional connectivity in autism. Human Brain Mapping, 35(10), 5204-5218.
• Libero, L. E., DeRamus, T.P., Deshpande, H.D., & Kana, R.K. (2014). Surface-based morphometry of the cortical architecture of autism spectrum disorders: volume, thickness, area, and gyrification. Neuropsychologia, 62C, 1-10.
• Murdaugh, D.L., Ver Hoef, L.W., & Kana, R.K. (2014). Functional connectivity in a child with autism with an enlarged cavum septum pellucidum. Neuropsychiatry, 4(1), 23-25.
• Kana, R.K., Uddin, L.Q., Kenet, T., Chugani, D., & Müller, R-A. (2014). Brain connectivity in autism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 349.

2013

• Just, M.A., Keller, T.A., & Kana, R.K. (2013). A theory of autism based on frontal-posterior underconnectivity. In Just M.A., & Pelphrey, K. (Eds.). “Development and Brain Systems in Autism.” Psychology Press.
• Kana, R.K., Liu, Y., Williams, D.L., Keller, T.A., Schipul, S.E., Minshew, N.J., & Just, M.A. (2013). The local, global, and neural aspects of visuospatial processing in autism spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia, 51(14), 2995-3003.
• Deshpande, G., Libero, L.E., Sreenivasan, K.R., Deshpande, H.D., & Kana, R.K. (2013). Identification of neural connectivity signatures of autism using machine learning. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 670.
• Wolfe, K.R., Madan‐Swain, A., Hunter, G.R., Reddy, A.T., Baños, J., & Kana, R.K. (2013). An fMRI investigation of working memory and its relationship with cardiorespiratory fitness in pediatric posterior fossa tumor survivors who received cranial radiation therapy. Pediatric blood & cancer.
• Kana, R.K., & Doss, C. (2013). Cortical language areas in autism. In Volkmar, F. E. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Kana, R.K., Klein, C.K., Klinger, L.G., Travers, B.G., & Klinger, M.R. (2013). Neural representations of self versus other: Lessons from autism.  Invited Chapter in Just M.A., & Pelphrey, K. (Eds.). “Development & Brain Systems in Autism”.
• Kana, R.K. (2013). Auditory cortex. In Volkmar, F. E. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders.

2012

• Kana, R.K., Blum, E.R., Ladden, S.L., & Ver Hoef, L.W. (2012). “How to do things with words”: role of motor cortex in semantic representation of action words. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3403-3409.
• Murdaugh, D.L., Shinkareva, S.V., Deshpande, H.R., Wang, J., Pennick, M.R., & Kana, R.K. (2012). Differential deactivation during mentalizing and classification of autism based on default mode network connectivity. PloS one, 7(11), e50064.
• Kana, R.K., Libero, L.E., Hu, C.P., Deshpande, H.D., & Colburn, J.S. (2012). Functional brain networks and white matter underlying Theory-of-Mind in autism. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(1), 98-105.
• Wolfe, K.R., Hunter, G.R., Madan-Swain, A., Reddy, A.T., Baños, J., & Kana, R.K. (2012). Cardiorespiratory fitness in survivors of pediatric posterior fossa tumor. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 34(6), e222-e227.
• Kana, R.K., Murdaugh, D.L., Wolfe, K.R., & Kumar, S.L. (2012). Brain responses mediating idiom comprehension: Gender and hemispheric differences. Brain research, 1467, 18-26.
• Wolfe, K.R., Madan-Swain, A., & Kana, R.K. (2012). Executive dysfunction in pediatric posterior fossa tumor survivors: a systematic literature review of neurocognitive deficits and interventions. Developmental Neuropsychology, 37(2), 153-175. 
• Pennick, M.R., & Kana, R.K. (2012). Specialization and integration of brain responses to object recognition and location detection. Brain and behavior, 2(1), 6-14.
• Kana, R.K., & Wadsworth, H.M. (2012). “The archeologist’s career ended in ruins”: Hemispheric differences in pun comprehension in autism. Neuroimage, 62(1), 77-86.
• Kana, R.K., & Percy, A. (2012). Organization in Autism. Archives of Neurology, 69(7), 906-907.
• Just, M.A., Keller, T.A., Malave, V.L., Kana, R.K., & Varma, S. (2012). Autism as a neural systems disorder: a theory of frontal-posterior underconnectivity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), 1292-1313

2011

• Kana, R. K., Libero, L. E., & Moore, M. S. (2011). Disrupted cortical connectivity theory as an explanatory model for autism spectrum disorders. Physics of life reviews, 8(4), 410-437.
• Kana, R.K., & Travers, B.G. (2011). Neural substrates of interpreting actions and emotions from body postures. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(4), 446-456.
• Kana, R.K., Murdaugh, D.L., Libero, L.E., Pennick, M.R., Wadsworth, H.M., Deshpande, H.R., & Hu, C.P. (2011). Probing the brain in autism using fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging. Journal of Visualized Experiments. (55): 3178.
• Wadsworth, H.M., & Kana, R.K. (2011). Brain mechanisms of perceiving tools and imagining tool use acts: a functional MRI study. Neuropsychologia, 49(7), 1863-1869.
• Kana, R.K., & Just, M.A. (2011). Autism as a disorder of functional brain connectivity. Invited Chapter in Amaral, D.G., Geschwind, D., & Dawson, G. (Eds.). “Handbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders”. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 981-9.
• Kana, R.K., Wadsworth, H.W., & Travers, B.G. (2011). A systems level analysis of the mirror neuron hypothesis and imitation impairments in autism. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 894-902.
• Kana, R.K. (2011). Moral judgments. In Goldstein, S., & Naglieri, J. (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer.

2010

• Damarla, S.R., Keller, T.A., Kana, R.K., Cherkassky, V.L., Williams, D.L., Minshew, N.J., & Just, M.A. (2010). Cortical underconnectivity coupled with preserved visuospatial cognition in autism: evidence from fMRI study of an embedded figures task. Autism Research,3(5), 273-9.

2009

• Kana, R.K., Keller, T.A., Cherkassky, V.L., Minshew, N.J., and Just. M.A. (2009). Atypical frontal-posterior synchronization of Theory-of-Mind regions in autism during mental state attribution. Social Neuroscience, 4(2), 135-152.
• Kumar, S.L., & Kana, R.K. (2009). Cognitive Abilities and Cortical Activity: a functional MRI investigation of figurative language comprehension. Inquiro, 3, 82-84.

2008

• Koshino, H., Kana, R.K., Cherkassky, V.L., Keller, T.A., Minshew, N.J., & Just, M.A. (2008). fMRI investigation of working memory for faces in autism: visual coding and underconnectivity with frontal areas. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2: 289-300.
• Mason, R.A., Williams, D.L., Kana, R.K., Minshew, N.J., & Just, M.A. (2008). Theory of Mind disruption and recruitment of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension in autism. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1: 269-80.

2007

• Kana, R.K., Keller, T.A., Minshew, N.J., & Just, M.A. (2007). Inhibitory Control in high functioning autism: decreased activation and underconnectivity in inhibition networks. Biological Psychiatry, 62, 198-206.
• Keller, T.A., Kana, R.K., & Just, M.A. (2007). Developmental changes in the structural integrity of the white matter in autism. Neuroreport, 18, 23-27.
• Just MA, Cherkassky VL, Keller TA, Kana RK, Minshew NJ. (2007). Functional and anatomical cortical underconnectivity in autism: Evidence from an fMRI study of an executive function task and corpus callosum morphometry. Cerebral Cortex; 17(4):951-61.

2006

• Kana, R.K., Keller, T.A., Cherkassky, V.L., Minshew, N.J., and Just. M.A. (2006). Sentence Comprehension in Autism: thinking in pictures with decreased functional connectivity in high functioning autism. Brain, 129, 9: 2484-2493.
• Cherkassky, V.L., Kana, R.K., Keller, T.A., & Just, M.A. (2006). Functional connectivity in a baseline resting state network in autism. Neuroreport, 17, 16: 1687-1690.