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Rea, H.M., Webb, S.J., Johansson, M., Kurtz-Nelson, E., Hudac, C.M., Bernier, R.A., … & Neuhaus, E. (2025). Characterizing Executive Functioning in Individuals with Dual-Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation-Regulated Kinase 1A (DYRK1A) Syndrome. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18, 1485499.

Wall, C.A., Hudac, C.M., Dommer, K., Li, B., Atyabi, A., Foster, C., … Shic, F. (2025). Preserved but Un-Sustained Responses to Bids for Dyadic Engagement in School-Age Children with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-9.

Nelson, C.M., O’Reilly, C.O, Xia, M., & Hudac, C.M. (2024). Coupling up: A dynamic investigation of romantic partners’ neurobiological states during nonverbal connection. Behavioral Sciences, 14(12), 1133.

Nelson, C.M., Webb, S.J, & Hudac, C.M. (2024). Social and perceptual decisions predict differences in face inversion neural correlates: Implications for development and face perception methods. Social Neuroscience, 1-7

Fox, N.A., Morales, S., Pérez-Edgar, K., Garner, B.M., Hudac, C.M., [..] and the HBCD EEG Workgroup. (2024). The development and structure of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study EEG protocol. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 69, 101447.

Pickron, C.B., Brown, A., Hudac, C.M., & Scott, L.S. (2024). Diverse Face Images (DFI): Validated for Racial Representation & Eye Gaze. Behavior Research Methods. 1-19

Revilla, R.*, Nelson, C.M.*, Friedman, N.R., Braun, S.S., Xia, M., & Hudac, C.M. (2024). Influence of social motivation on decision making: A dynamic multilevel, neural, and developmental perspective. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101434

Hudac, C.M., Dommer, K., Mahony, M., DesChamps, T.D., Cairney, B., Earl, R.K., Kurtz-Nelson, E.K., Bradshaw, J., Bernier, R.A., Eichler, E.E., Neuhaus, E., Webb, S.J., & Shic, F. (2024). Visual and auditory attention in individuals with DYRK1A and SCN2A disruptive variants. Autism Research, 2024; 1-13.

Oyler, H., Hudac, C.M., Srivastava, S., Snyder, L., Chung, W.K., Geye, T., & Robertson, S. (2024). SETBP1 haploinsufficiency and related disorders clinical and neurobehavioral phenotype study. Clinical Genetics, 2023.

Gerdts, J., Casagrande, K.A., Bateman, K.J., Hudac, C.M., Bravo, A., Mancini, J., …, Stobbe, G.A. (2024). ECHO Autism Washington: Diagnosis and management of autism in primary care. Clinical Pediatrics, 00099228241255866

Kurtz-Nelson, E.K., Rea, H., Petriceks, A., Hudac, C.M., Earl, R.K., Bernier, R.A., Eichler, E.E., & Neuhaus, E. (2023). Characterizing the autism spectrum phenotype in DYRK1A-related syndrome. Autism Research, 2023.

Riek, N., Susam, B.T., Hudac, C.M., Conner, C.M., Akcakaya, M., Yun, J., White, S.W., Mazefsky, C.A., Gable, P.A. (2023). Feedback related negativity amplitude is greatest following deceptive feedback in autistic adolescents. Journal of Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2023.

Xia, M. & Hudac, C.M. (2023). Social connection constellations and individual well-being typologies: Using the loglinear modeling approach with latent variables. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24(6), 1991-2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-023-00667-x

Rea, H., Clawson, A., Hudac, C.M., Santosh, M., Bernier, R.A., Earl, R., Pelphrey, K.A., Webb, S.J., & Neuhaus, E. (2023). Developmental differences in EEG resting state in a large sample of adolescents with ASD. Developmental Psychobiology, 65(7), e22415.

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. (2023). Characterizing sensory phenotypes of subgroups with a known genetic etiology pertaining to diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Tomeny, T., Hudac, C.M., Kana, R., Maliai, E., Morett, L., Tomeny, K., & Watkins, L. (2023). Serving individuals with autism spectrum disorder in the age of COVID-19: Special considerations for rural and underserved families. Rural Special Education Quarterly, 87568705231167440.

Hudac, C.M., Wallace, J., Ward, V.R., Friedman, N.R., Delfin, D., & Newman, S. (2022). Dynamic cognitive inhibition in the context of frustration: Increasing racial representation of adolescent athletes using mobile community-engaged EEG methods. Frontiers Neurology, 13, 2022.

Susam, B., Riek, N., Beck, K., Eldeeb, S., Hudac, C.M., Gable, P., Conner, C., Akcakaya, M., White, S., & Mazefsky C. (2022). Quantitative EEG changes in Youth with ASD following brief mindfulness meditation exercise. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30, 2395-2405.

White, B.A., Dede, B., Heilman, M., Revilla, R., Lochman, J., Hudac, C.M., Bui, C., & White, S.W. (2022). Facial affect sensitivity training for young children with emerging CU traits: An experimental therapeutics approach. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(3), 264-276.

Combs, I. & Hudac, C.M. (2022). Biological and environmental factors contributing to preverbal infant word comprehension. 2021-2022 Journal of Science & Health at the University of Alabama (JOSHUA) Staff, 23.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.), COVID19 and Autism Research: Perspectives from Around the Globe. Autism Research, 13(6), 844.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hudac, C.M. (2019). Rapid dynamic modulation of ostracism neural responses following social priming. Social Neuroscience, 14(3), 313-327.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Skinner, A.S. & Hudac, C.M. (2017) “Yuck, you disgust me!” Affective bias against interracial couples. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 68-77.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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