Publications

Winarni T, Chonchaiya, W, Adams, E, Au, J, Mu, Y, Rivera, S, Nguyen, D, and Hagerman, R (in press).
Sertraline may improve language developmental trajectory in young children with fragile X syndrome: A retrospective chart review.
Autism Research and Treatment.

Wang, J, Hessl, D, Hagerman, R, Tassone, F, and Rivera, S (2012).
Age-dependent structural connectivity effects in fragile X premutation.
Archives of Neurology 69(4):482-489.

Farzin, F, Rivera, S, and Whitney, D (2011).
Time Crawls: The temporal Resolution of infants' visual attention.
Psychological Science 22(8):1004-1010.

Farzin, F, Rivera, S, and Whitney, D (2011).
Resolution of spatial and temporal visual attention in infants with fragile X syndrome
Brain 134(11):3355–3368.

Goodrich-Hunsaker, N, Wong, L, McLenna, Y, Tassone, F, Harvey, D, Rivera, S, and Simon, T (2011).
Adult female fragile X premutation carriers exhibit age- and CGG repeat length-related impairments on an attentional-based enumeration task
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5(63).

Goodrich-Hunsaker, N, Wong, L, McLenna, Y, Tassone, F, Harvey, T, Rivera, S, and Simon, T (2011).
Enhanced manual and oral motor reaction time in young adult female fragile X premutation carriers.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 21(1-5).

Goodrich-Hunsaker, N, Wong, L, McLennan, Y, Srivastava, S, Tassone, F, Harvey, D, Rivera, S, and Simon, T (2011).
Young adult female fragile X premutation carriers show age- and genetically-modulated cognitive impairments.
Brain and Cognition 75(3):255-260.

Hashimoto, R, Backer, K, Tasonne, F, Hagerman, R, and Rivera, S (2011).
An fMRI study of the prefrontal activity during the performance of a working memory task in premutation carriers of the fragile X mental retardation 1 gene with and without fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS).
Journal of Psychiatric Research 45(1):36-43.

Hashimoto, R, Javan, A, Tassone, F, Hagerman, R, and Rivera, S (2011).
A voxel-based morphometry study of grey matter loss in fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.
Brain 134(3):863-878.

Hashimoto, R, Srivastava, S, Tassone, F, Hagerman, R, and Rivera, S (2011).
Diffusion tensor imaging in male premutation carriers of the fragile X mental retardation gene.
Movement Disorders 26(7):1329-1336.

Hessl, D, Wang, J, Schneider, A, Koldewyn, K, Le, L, Iwahashi, C, Tassone, F, Hagerman, P, and Rivera, S (2011).
Decreased fragile X mental retardation protein expression underlies amygdala dysfunction in carriers of the fragile X premutation.
Biological Psychiatry 70(9):859-865.

Koldewyn, K, Whitney, D, and Rivera, S (2011).
Neural correlates of coherent and biological motion perception in autism.
Developmental Science 14(5):1075-1088.

Selmeczy, D, Koldewyn, K, Wang, J, Lee, A, Harvey, D, Hessl, D, Tassone, F, Adams, P, Hagerman, R, Hagerman, P, and Rivera, S (2011).
Investigation of amygdala volume in men with the fragile X premutation.
Brain Imaging and Behavior 5(4):285-294.

Adams, P, Adams, J, Nguyen, D, Hessl, D, Brunberg, J, Tassone, F, Zhang, W, Koldewyn, K, Rivera, S, Grigsby, J, Zhang, L, Decarli, C, Hagerman, P, and Hagerman, R (2010).
Psychological symptoms correlate with reduced hippocampal volume in fragile X premutation carriers.
American Journal of Medical Genetics 153B(3):775–785.

Farzin, F and Rivera, S (2010).
Dynamic object representations in infants with and without fragile X syndrome.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2:4-12.

Farzin, F, Rivera, S, and Whitney, D (2010).
Spatial resolution of conscious visual perception in infants.
Psychological Science 21(10):1502-1509.

Rivera, S, Stebbins, G, and Grigsby, J (2010).
Radiological findings in FXTAS. In F. Tassone and E. Berry-Kravis (Eds), The Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome.
New York: Springer.

Utari, A, Chonchaiya, W, Rivera, S, Schneider, A, Hagerman, R, Faradz, S, Ethnell, I, and Nguyen, D (2010).
Side effects of minocycline treatment in patients with fragile X syndrome and exploration of outcome measures.
American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 115(5):433-443.

Bourgeois, J, Coffey, S, Rivera, S, Hessl, D, Gane, L, Tassone, F, Greco, C, Finucane, B, Nelson, L, Berry-Kravis, E, Grigsby, J, Hagerman, P, and Hagerman, R (2009).
A review of fragile X premutation disorders: expanding the psychiatric perspective.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 70(6):852-862.

Charles, E and Rivera, S (2009).
Object permanence and method of disappearance: looking measures further contradict reaching measures.
Developmental Science 12(6):991-1006.

Corbett, B, Carmean, V, Ravizza, S, Wendelken, C, Henry, M, Carter, C, and Rivera, S (2009).
A functional and structural study of emotion and face processing in children with autism.
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 173(3):196-205.

Farzin, F, Charles, E, and Rivera, S (2009).
Development of multimodal numerical processing in infancy.
Infancy 14(5):563-578.

Farzin, F, Rivera, S, and Hessl, D (2009).
Brief report: Visual processing of faces in individuals with fragile X syndrome: An eye tracking study.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 39(6):946-952.

Farzin, F, Rivera, S, and Whitney, D (2009).
Holistic crowding of Mooney faces.
Journal of Vision 9(6):1-15.

Koldewyn, K, Whitney, D, and Rivera, S (2009).
The psychophysics of visual motion and global form processing in autism.
Brain 133(2):599-610.