Publications

Schneider, A, Seritan, A, Tassone, F, Rivera, S, Hagerman, R, and Hessl, D (in press).
Psychiatric features in high-functioning adult brothers with fragile X spectrum disorders.
The Primary Care Companion.

Wang, J, Hessl, D, Tassone, F, Hagerman, R, and Rivera, S (in press).
The effect of the FMR1 gene on motor fiber tracts in males with normal and premulation alleles.
JAMA Neurology.

Leigh, M, Nguyen, D, Mu, Y, Winarni, T, Schneider, A, Chechi, T, Polussa, J, Doucet, P, Tassone, F, Rivera, S, Hessl, D, and Hagerman, R (2013).
A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of minocycline in children and adolescents with fragile X syndrome
Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 34(3):147-155.

Owen, E, Baumgartner, H, and Rivera, S (2013).
Using infrared eye-tracking to explore ordinal numerical processing in toddlers with fragile X syndrome
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 5(1):1 doi: 10.1186/1866-1955-5-1.

Wang, J, Hagerman, R, and Rivera, S (2013).
A Multimodal Imaging Analysis of Subcortical Gray Matter in Fragile X Premutation Carriers
Movement Disorders doi: 10.1002/mds.25473 [epub ahead of print].

Kim, S, Burris, J, Bassal, F, Koldewyn, K, Chattarji, S, Tassone, F, Hessl, D, and Rivera, S (2012).
Fear-specific amygdala function in children and adolescents on the fragile X spectrum: A dosage response of the FMR1 gene
Cerebral Cortex doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs341.

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.

Wang, J, Hessl, D, Iwahashi, C, Cheung, K, Schneider, A, Hagerman, R, Hagerman, P, and Rivera, S (2012).
Influence of the fragile X mental retardation (FMR1) gene on the brain and working memory in men with normal FMR1 alleles.
Neuroimage 65(2013):288–298.

Wang, J, Koldewyn, K, Hashimoto, R, Schneider, A, Le, L, Tassone, F, Cheung, K, Hagerman, P, Hessl, D, and Rivera, S (2012).
Male carriers of the FMR1 premutation show altered hippocampal-prefrontal function during memory encoding
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 6(297):1-13.

Winarni T, Chonchaiya, W, Adams, E, Au, J, Mu, Y, Rivera, S, Nguyen, D, and Hagerman, R (2012).
Sertraline may improve language developmental trajectory in young children with fragile X syndrome: A retrospective chart review.
Autism Research and Treatment 104317:1-8.

Wong, L, Goodrich-­‐Hunsaker, N, McLennan, Y, Tassone, F, Harvey, D, Rivera, S, and Simon, T (2012).
Young adult male carriers of the Fragile X premutation (fXPCs) exhibit genetically modulated impairments in visuospatial tasks controlled for psychomotor speed
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 4(1):1-12.

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.