Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS – Organized by topic

Contribution #1: Social attention, emotion regulation, and related processes in typical development
Under review
  1. Hudac, C.M., Wallace, J., Ward, V.R., Friedman, N.R., Delfin, D., & Newman, S. (under review). Brain correlates of inhibition in the context of frustration: Increasing racial representation of high school athletes using mobile community-engaged methods.
  2. Xia, M. & Hudac, C.M. (under review). Social connection constellations and individual well-being typologies: Using the loglinear modeling approach with latent variables.
  3. Hudac, C.M., Pospisil, J.W., & Sommerville, J.A. (under review). The neural correlates of fairness expectations in infancy.
Peer-reviewed accepted / published
  1. Hudac, C.M., Naples, A., DesChamps, T.D., Coffman, M.C., Kresse, A., Ward, T., Mukerji, C., Aaronson, B., Faja, S., McPartland, J., & Bernier, R. (2021). Modeling temporal connectivity of face processing in youth and adults. Social Neuroscience, 2021: 1-17.
  2. Cortesa, C.S., Hudac, C.M., & Molfese, D.L. (2019). Dynamic effects of habituation and novelty detection on newborn event-related potentials. Brain and Language, 199, 104695.
  3. Hudac, C.M. (2019). Rapid dynamic modulation of ostracism neural responses following social priming. Social Neuroscience, 14(3), 313-327.
  4. Skinner, A.S. & Hudac, C.M. (2017) “Yuck, you disgust me!” Affective bias against interracial couples. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 68-77.
  5. Nolte, T., Bolling, D.Z., Hudac, C.M., Fonagy, P., Mayes, L., & Pelphrey, K.A. (2013). Brain mechanisms underlying the impact of attachment-related stress on social cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:816. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00816
  6. Vander Wyk, B.C., Ramsay, G.J., Hudac, C.M., Jones, W., Lin, D., Klin, A., & Pelphrey, K.A. (2010). Cortical integration of audio-visual information. Brain and Cognition, 74, 97-106.
  7. Vander, Wyk, B.C., Hudac, C.M., Carter, E.J., Sobel, D.M., & Pelphrey, K.A. (2009). Action understanding in the superior temporal sulcus region. Psychological Science, 20, 6, 771-777.
Contribution #2: Social attention, social cognition, and related processes in autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
Under review
  1. Rea, H., Clawson, A., Hudac, C.M., Santosh, M., Bernier, R.A., Earl, R., Pelphrey, K.A., Webb, S.J., & Neuhaus, E. (under review). Developmental differences in EEG resting state in a large sample of adolescents with ASD.
  2. Hudac, C.M., DesChamps, T.D., Coffman, M., Naples, A., Kresse, A., Faja, S., Ward, T., Mukerji, C., Aaronson, B., Bernier, R.A. & McPartland, J.C. (under review). Distinct temporal dynamics of face perception in autism spectrum disorder.
 Peer-reviewed accepted / published
  1. Susam, B., Riek, N., Beck, K., Eldeeb, S., Hudac, C.M., Gable, P.,  Conner, C., Akcakaya, M., White, S., & Mazefsky C. (accepted). Quantitative EEG changes in Youth with ASD following brief mindfulness meditation exercise. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2022.
  2. Hudac, C.M., Santhosh, M., Celerian, C., Chung, K-M., Jung, W., & Webb, S.J. (2021) The role of racial and developmental experience in emotional adaptive coding. Developmental Neuropsychology, 1-16.
  3. Kaliukhovich, D.A., Manyakov, N.V., Bangerter, A., Ness, S., Skalkin, A., Boice, M., Goodwin, M.S., Dawson, G., Hendren, R.L., Leventhal, B., Hudac, C.M., Bradshaw, J., Shic, F., & Pandina, G. (2020). Social attention to activities in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder: effects of context and age. Molecular Autism, 11(1), 1-14.
  4. Li, B., Nuechterlein, N., Barney, E., Hudac, C.M., Ventola, P., Shapiro, L., & Shic, F. (2020). Selection of eye-tracking stimuli for prediction by sparsely grouped input variables and for neural networks: towards biomarker refinement for autism. In ETRA ’20: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications,June 02-05-2020, Stuttgart, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1122445.1122456.
  5. Hudac, C.M., DesChamps, T.D., Arnett, A.B., Cairney, B.E., Ma, R., Webb, S.J., & Bernier, R.A. (2018). Early enhanced processing and delayed habituation to deviance sounds in autism spectrum disorder. Brain and Cognition, 123, 110-119.
  6. Arnett, A.B., Hudac, C.M., DesChamps, T.D., Cairney, B.E., Gerdts, J., Wallace, A.S., Bernier, R.A., & Webb, S.J. (2018). Auditory perception is associated with implicit language learning and receptive language ability in autism spectrum disorder. Brain and Language. 187:1-8.
  7. Pelphrey, K.A., Shultz, S., Hudac, C.M., & Vander Wyk, B.C. (2011). Research Review: Constraining Heterogeneity: The social brain and its development in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(6), 631-644. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02349.x
  8. Pitskel, N.B., Bolling, D.Z., Hudac, C.M., Lantz, S.D., Minshew, N.J., Vander Wyk, B.C., & Pelphrey, K.P. (2011). Brain mechanisms for processing direct and averted gaze in individuals with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(12), 1686-1693. doi: 10.1007/s10803-011-1197-x.
  9. Kaiser, M. D., Hudac, C. M., Shultz, S., Lee, S., Cheung, C., Berken, A. M., Deen, B., Pitskel, N. B., Sugrue, D. R., Voos, A. C., Saulnier, C. A., Ventola, P., Wolf, J.M., Klin, A., Vander Wyk, B. C., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2010). Neural signatures of autism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 49, 21223-21228.
  10. Perlman, S.B., Hudac, C.M., Pegors, T., Minshew, N.J., & Pelphrey, K.A. (2010). Experimental manipulation of face-evoked activity in the fusiform gyrus of individuals with autism. Social Neuroscience. 1747-1927.
Contribution #3: Critical individual difference factors of ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders, including genetic etiology and rural health disparities
Under review
  1. Hudac, C.M., Friedman, N.R., Ward, W.R., Estreicher, R.E., Dorsey, G.C., Bernier, R.A., Kurtz-Nelson, E.C., Earl, R.K., Eichler, E.E., & Neuhaus, E. (under review). Characterizing sensory features of ASD and ID pertaining to subgroups with a known genetic etiology.
  2. Hudac, C.M., Kurtz-Nelson, E.K., Rutter, T.M., Peterson, J.L., Hoekzema, K., Beighley, J., Kelly, M.E., Wallace, A.S., Gerdts, J., Eichler, E.E., Bernier, R.A., & Earl, R.K. (under review). Unpacking the autism spectrum disorder profile of children with de novo disruptive GRIN2B variants: A quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  3. Tomeny, T., Hudac, C.M., Kana, R., Maliai, E., Morett, L., Tomeny, K., & Watkins, L. (under review). Serving individuals with autism spectrum disorder in the age of COVID-19: Special considerations for rural and underserved families.
 Peer-reviewed accepted / published
  1. Coll-Tané, M., Gong, N., Belfer, S.J., van Renssen, L., [et al., including Hudac, C.M.], & Schenck, A. (2021). CHD8/CHD7/Kismet link blood-brain barrier glia and serotonin to ASD-associated sleep deficits. Scientific Advances, 7(23), eabe2626.
  2. Earl, R.K., Ward, T., Gerdts, J., Eichler, E.E., Bernier, R.A., & Hudac, C.M. (2021). Sleep problems in children with ASD and gene disrupting mutations. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 182(5) doi: 10.1080/00221325.2021.1922869.
  3. Hudac, C.M.*, Bove, J.*, Barber, S., Duyzend, M., Wallace, A.S., Martin, C.L., Ledbetter, D.H., Hanson, E., Goin-Kochel, R.P., Green-Synder, L., Chung, W., Eichler, E.E., & Bernier, R.A. (2020). Evaluating heterogeneity in ASD symptomatology, cognitive ability, and adaptive functioning among 16p11.2 CNV carriers. Autism Research, Online 29 June 2020, 1-11. doi:10.1002/aur.2332
  4. Kana, R.K., Hudac, C.M., Tomeny, T.S., O’Kelley, S., Barber, A.B., & White, S.W. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on Autism Research: Reflections from Alabama. In Amaral, D.G. & de Vries, P.J. (Eds.), COVID‐19 and Autism Research: Perspectives from Around the Globe. Autism Research, 13(6), 844.
  5. Kurtz-Nelson, E.C., Beighley, J.S., Hudac, C.M., Gerdts, J., Wallace, A.S., Hoekzema, K., Eichler, E.E., & Bernier, R.A. (2020) Co-occurring medical conditions among individuals with ASD-associated disruptive mutations. Journal of Children’s Health Care, 1-14.
  6. 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 and Neuroimaging. 4(12), 1016-1017.
  7. Beighley, J.S.*, Hudac, C.M.*, Arnett, A.B., Peterson, J.L., Gerdts, J., Wallace, A.S., Mefford, H., Hoekzema, K., Turner, T.N., O’Roak, B.J., Eichler, E.E., & Bernier, R.A. (2019). Clinical and behavioral phenotypes of carriers of mutations in CHD8 or its conserved target genes. Biological Psychiatry, 87(2), 123-131.
  8. Wallace, A.S., Hudac, C.M., Berg, J., DesChamps, T.D., Steinman, K., & Bernier, R.A. (2018). Longitudinal report of child with de novo 16p11.2 triplication. Clinical Case Reports, 6(1), 147-154.
  9. Luhrs, K.*, Ward, T.,* Hudac, C.M., Gerdts, J., Stessman, H., Eichler, E.E., & Bernier, R.A. (2017). Familial rates of psychiatric disorders in children with autism spectrum disorders identified with genetic mutations. Autism Research and Treatment. Vol 2017, Article ID 9371964. doi:10.1155/2017/9371964
  10. Earl, R.K., Turner, T.N., Mefford, H.C., Hudac, C.M., Gerdts, J., Eichler, E.E., & Bernier, R.A. (2017). Clinical phenotype of DYRK1A haploinsufficiency distinct from idiopathic autism and other ASD-associated gene mutations. Molecular Autism, 8(1), 54.
  11. Hudac, C.M., Stessman, H.A., DesChamps, T.D., Kresse, A., Faja, S., Neuhaus, E., Webb, S.J., Eichler, E.E., & Bernier, R.A. (2017). Exploring the heterogeneity of neural social indices for genetically-distinct etiologies of autism. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 9(1), 24.
  12. Ackerman, S.F., Schoenbrun, S., Hudac, C.M., & Bernier, R.A. (2017). Interactive effects of prenatal antidepressant exposure & likely gene disrupting mutations on the severity of autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, pp. 3489-3496.
  13. Bernier, R., Hudac, C.M., Chen, Q., Zeng, C., Wallace, A.S., Gerdts, J., Earl, R., Berg, J., Wolken, A., Peters, A., Hanson, E., Goin-Kochel, R.P., Kanne, S., Snyder, L.G., & Chung, W.K. on behalf of the Simons VIP consortium. (2017). Developmental trajectories for young children with 16p11.2 copy number variation. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics.
  14. Hudac, C.M.*, Kresse, A.*, Aaronson, B., DesChamps, T.D., Webb, S.J., & Bernier, R.A. (2015). Modulation of mu attenuation to social stimuli in children and adults with 16p11.2 deletions and duplications. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 7(1), 1.
  15. Higdon, R.*, Kincade Earl, R.*, Stanberry, L., Hudac, C.M., Montague, E., Bernier, R.A., & Kolker, E. (2015). The promise of multi-omics and clinical data integration to identify and target personalized healthcare approaches in Autism Spectrum Disorders. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 2015.
Other contributions:
  1. White, B.A., Dede, B., Heilman, M., Revilla, R., Lochman, J., Hudac, C.M., Bui, C., & White, S.W. (accepted, 2022). Facial affect sensitivity training for young children with emerging CU traits: An experimental therapeutics approach. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
  2. Hudac, C.M.*, Cortesa, C.S.*, Ledwidge, P.S., & Molfese, D.L. (2017). History of concussion impacts electrophysiological correlates of working memory. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 132(Pt A), 135-144.
  3. Molfese, D.L., Ivanenko, A., Key, F., Roman, A., Molfese, V.J., O’Brien, L.M., Gozal, D., Kota, S., & Hudac, C.M. (2013). A One-Hour Sleep Restriction Impacts Brain Processing in Young Children Across Tasks: Evidence From Brain Recordings. Developmental Neuropsychology, 38:5, 317-336, doi:10.1080/87565641.2013.799169.
  4. Hudac, C.M., Kota, S., Nedrow, J.L., & Molfese, D.L. (2012). Neural mechanisms underlying neuro-optometric rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury. Eye and Brain. 2012:4, 1-12. doi: 10.2147/EB.S27290
 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS: supervision of postgraduate (~) and undergraduate trainee (~~)
  1. ~~Combs, I. & Hudac, C.M. (accepted 2022). Biological and environmental factors contributing to preverbal infant word comprehension. Journal of Science & Health at the University of Alabama (JOSHUA), accepted.
 
BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
  1. Hudac, C.M., Friedman, N.R., & Turner, T.N. (under contract with Academic Press). Genetic etiologies of autism: Unpacking pathogenic mechanisms and characteristics. In R. Kana (Ed.), The Neuroscience of Autism. Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
  2. Hudac, C.M. & Sommerville, J. (2021). Understanding others’ minds and (socio)-morality: Progress and innovation of infant electrophysiology. In J. Decety (Ed.), The Social Brain: A Developmental Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  3. Pelphrey, K.P., Vander Wyk, B.C., Shultz, S., & Hudac, C.M. (2014). Social brain function and its development: New insights into autism spectrum disorders. In J. McPartland, A. Kin, & F.R. Volkmar (Ed.), Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition: Assessing and treating high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. (pp. 415-440) New York, NY: Guilford Publications, Inc.
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