Most Recent Publications:
Kennedy, D.P. & Courchesne, E. (2008). The intrinsic functional organization of the brain is altered in autism. Neuroimage. 39: 1877-85.
Redcay, E., Kennedy, D.P., & Courchesne, E. (2007). Functional MRI during natural sleep as a method to study early functional brain development. Neuroimage. 38: 696-707.
Courchesne, E., Pierce, K., Schumann, C.M., Redcay, E., Buckwalter, J.A., Kennedy, D.P., & Morgan, J. (2007). Mapping early brain development in autism. Neuron. 56: 399-413.
Kennedy, D.P. & Squrie, L.R. (2007). An analysis of calendar performance in two autistic calendar savants. Learning & Memory. 14: 533-8.
Bloss CS, Courchesne E. MRI Neuroanatomy in Young Girls With Autism: A Preliminary Study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007 Apr;46(4):515-523.
Kennedy DP, Semendeferi K, Courchesne E. No reduction of spindle neuron number in frontoinsular cortex in autism. Brain Cogn. 2007 Mar 10;64: 124-9.
Belmonte MK, Mazziotta JC, Minshew NJ, Evans AC, Courchesne E, Dager SR, BookheimerSY, Aylward EH, Amaral DG, Cantor RM, Chugani DC, Dale AM, Davatzikos C, Gerig G, Herbert MR, Lainhart JE, Murphy DG, Piven J, Reiss AL, Schultz RT, Zeffiro TA, Levi-Pearl S, Lajonchere C, Colamarino SA. Offering to Share: How to Put Heads Together in Autism Neuroimaging. J Autism Dev Disord. 2007 Mar 9; [Epub ahead of print]
Gaffrey MS, Kleinhans NM, Haist F, Akshoomoff N, Campbell A, Courchesne E, Muller RA. A typical participation of visual cortex during word processing in autism: An fMRI study of semantic decision. Neuropsychologia. 2007;45(8):1672-84. Epub 2007 Jan 16.
Buxhoeveden DP, Semendeferi K, Buckwalter J, Schenker N, Switzer R, Courchesne E. Reduced minicolumns in the frontal cortex of patients with autism. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2006 Oct;32(5):483-91.
DiCicco-Bloom E, Lord C, Zwaigenbaum L, Courchesne E, Dager SR, Schmitz C, Schultz RT, Crawley J, Young LJ. The developmental neurobiology of autism spectrum disorder. J Neurosci. 2006 Jun 28;26(26):6897-906. Review.
Kennedy DP, Redcay E, Courchesne E. Failing to deactivate: resting functional abnormalities in autism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 23;103(21):8275-80. Epub 2006 May 15.
Courchesne, E., Redcay, E., Morgan, J.T., Kennedy, D.P. Autism at the beginning: Microstructural and growth abnormalities underlying the cognitive and behavioral phenotype of autism. Development and Psychopathology 2005 Summer;17(3):577-97. Review