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Dr. Lerner's Current Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
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Published Works

  1. *McDonald, R.G., *Khawar, S., Yacoub, N., Cargill, M., Lerner, M., & Kang., E. (in press).
    Performance- and theater-based social skills interventions for supporting social cognition and social communication in autistic youth: A review and theoretical synthesis. Speech and Language Current Interventions.
  2. Gerber, A.H.,* Kang, E.,* Nahmias, A.S., Libsack, E.J.,* Simson, C.E.* & Lerner, M.D. (in press). Predictors of Treatment Response to a Community-Delivered Group Social Skills Intervention for Youth with ASD. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders.
  3. Cooper, C. M.,* Rosen, T.,* Kim, H.,* Eaton, N., Cohn, E., Drahota, A., Moskowitz, L., the UCAS Consortium, Lerner, M. D., & Kerns, C. M. (In press). Predictors of expert providers’ familiarity with intervention practices for school- and transition-age youth with ASD. Autism.
  4. Lawlor, J., Thomas, C., Guhin, A.T., Kebyon, K. Lerner, M.D., UCAS Consortium, & Drahota, A. (in press). Suspicious and fraudulent online survey participation: A tutorial and case study utlizing the REAL Framework. Methodological Innovations.
  5. Libsack, E.J.,* Keenan, E.G.,* Freden, C.E.,* Mirmina, J.,* Iskhakov, N.,* Krishnathasan, D.,* Lerner, M.D. (in press). A systematic review of passing as non-autistic in autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 
  6. Mayor-Torres, J. M.,* Ravanelli, M., Medina DeVilliers, S. E.,* Lerner, M. D., and Riccardi, G. (2021). Interpretable sincnet-based deep learning for emotion recognition from eeg brain activity. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. October 31 – November 4, 2021 (Virtual).
  7. McPartland, J.C., Lerner, M.D., Bhat, A., Clarkson, T.,* Jack, A., Koohsari, S., Matuskey, D.,
    McQuaid, G.A., Su, W-C, & Trevisan, D.A. (in press). Looking Back at the Next 40 Years of ASD Neuroscience Research. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
  8. Libsack, E.J.,* McNair, M.L.,* Giacomantonio, J.,* Felsman, P.,* & Lerner, M.D. (in press). Low
    intensity interventions for autistic children and young people. In Bennett, S., Myles-Hooton, P., & Schleider, J. (Eds). Oxford Guide to Low-Intensity Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Young People. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  9. Libsack, E.J.,* Trimber, E.,* Hauschild, K.M.,* Hajcak, G., McPartland, J.C., & Lerner, M.D. (in press). An electrocortical measure associated with metarepresentation mediates the relationship between autism symptoms and theory of mind. Clinical Psychological Science.
  10. Mayor Torres, J.M. ¥*, Clarkson, T.¥*,^ Hauschild, K.M.*, Luhmann, C.C., Lerner, M.D., Riccardi, G. (in press). Facial emotions are accurately encoded in the brains of those with autism: A deep learning approach. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
  11. Keifer, C.M.,* Day, T.C.,* Hauschild, K.M.,* & Lerner, M.D. (in press). Social and Non-social
    Reward Anticipation in Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Current Status & Future Directions. Current Psychiatry Reports.
  12. Corbett, B.A., Schwartzman, J.M., Libsack, E.J.,* Muscatello, R.A., Lerner, M.D., Simmons, G.L., White, S.W. (in press). Camouflaging in autism: examining sex-based and compensatory models in social cognition and communication. Autism Research.
  13. Simmons, G.L., Ioannou, S., Smith, J.V., Corbett, B.A., Lerner, M.D., & White, S.W. (in press).
    Utility of an observational social skill assessment as a measure of social cognition in Autism. Autism Research.
  14. Amaral, D.G. and de Vries, P.J., et al. (2020), COVID‐19 and Autism Research: Perspectives from Around the Globe. Autism Research, 13: 844-869. doi:10.1002/aur.2329
  15. Hauschild, K.M.,* Felsman, P.,* Keifer, C.M.,* & Lerner, M.D. (in press). Evidence of an own-age bias in facial emotion recognition for individuals with and without autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
  16. Kang, E.,* Lerner, M.D., Gadow, K.D. (in press). Atypical communication characteristics
    among clinic-referred youth with and without autism spectrum disorder: stability and Associations with Clinical Correlates. Development & Psychopathology.
  17. Granieri, J.E.,* McNair, M.L.,* Gerber, A.H.,* Reifler, R.,* Lerner, M.D. (in press). Atypical social communication is associated with positive initial impressions among peers with autism spectrum disorder. Autism.
  18. Kang, E.,* Gioia, A.,* Pugliese, C. E., Islam, N. Y.,* Martinez-Pedraza, F., Girard, R. M., McLeod, B.D., Carter, A. S., & Lerner, M. D. (in press). Alliance-outcome associations in a community-based social skills intervention for youth with autism spectrum disorder. Behavior Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2020.04.006
  19. Keifer, C.M.,* Mikami, A.Y., Morris, J.P., Libsack, E.J.,* & Lerner, M.D. (in press). Prediction of social behavior in autism spectrum disorders: explicit versus implicit social cognition. Autism.
  20. Kang, E.,¥* Santore, L.A.,¥* Rankin, J.A.,* & Lerner, M.D. ^ (2020). Self-reported social
    skills importance ratings, not social skills themselves, predict sociometric status in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2020.101552
  21. Black, M., Mahdi, S., Milbourn, B., Scott, M., Gerber, A.H.,* Esposito, C.M.,* Falkmer, M., Lerner, M.D., Halladay, A., Strom, E., D’Angelo, A., Falkmer,  Bolte, S., Girdler, S. (in press). Multi-informant international perspectives on the facilitators and barriers to employment for autistic adults. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2288
  22. Santore, L. A.,* Gerber, A.,* Gioia, A.,* Bianchi, R.,* Talledo, F.,* Peris, T. S., & Lerner, M. D. (in press). Felt but not seen: Observed restricted repetitive behaviors are associated with self-report – but not parent-report – OCD symptoms in youth with ASD. Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320909177
  23. Rodriguez-Seijas, C.,* Gadow, K. D., Rosen, T.E.,* Kim, H.,* Lerner, M.D., Eaton, N. R. (2020). A transdiagnostic model of psychiatric symptom co-occurrence and autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 13(4), 579–590. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2228
  24. Clarkson, T.*, Kang, E.,* Capriola-Hall, N., Lerner, M.D., Jarcho, J., Prinstein, M.J (in press). A meta-analysis of the RDoC social processing domain across units of analysis. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
  25. Gerber, A.H.,* Girard, J.M., Scott, S.B., & Lerner, M.D. (2019). Alexithymia – not Autism – is associated with frequency of social interactions in adults. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.103477
  26. Keifer, C.M.,* Hauschild, K.M.,* Hajcak, G., Nelson, B.D., & Lerner, M. D. (in press). Differences in the late positive potential and P300 to emotional faces in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 49(12), 5009–5022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04207-6
  27. Goldstein, T.R. Lerner, M.D., Paterson, S., Jaggi, L.,* Toub, T.S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M. (2019). Stakeholder Perceptions of the Effects of a Public School-Based Theatre Program for Children with ASD. Journal of Learning Through the Arts, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.21 977/D915136948
  28. Black, M., Mahdi, S., Milbourn, B., Thompson, C., D’Angelo, A., Strom, E., Falkmer, M., Falkmer, T., Lerner, M.D., Halladay, A., Gerber, A.H.,* Esposito, C.M.,* Girdler, S., Bolte, S. (2019). Perspectives of key stakeholders on employment of autistic adults across the USA, Australia and Sweden. Autism Research, 12(11), 1648–1662. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2167
  29. Kang, E., ¥* Clarkson, T., ¥* Keifer, C.M.,* Rosen, T.E.,* Lerner, M.D. ^ (2019). Discrete electrocortical predictors of anxiety and anxiety-related treatment response in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychology, 146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bio psycho.2019.05.010
  30. Kim, H., ¥*  Greene, A., ¥*  Eaton, N.R., Lerner, M.D., & Gadow, K.D. (2019). Is There a General Factor of the Autism Symptom Phenotype? Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(10), 1021–1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.024
  31. Russo-Ponsaran, N.M., Lerner, M.D., McKown, C., Weber, R.J.,* Karls, A., Kang, E.,* Sommer, S.L.* (2019). Web-based assessment of social cognition in school-age youth with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 12(8), 1260–1271. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2123
  32. Kerns, CM, Berkowitz, SJ, Moskowitz, L, Drahota, A, Lerner, MD, UCAS Consortium, Newschaffer, CJ. (in press) Screening and treatment of trauma-related symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder amongst community providers. Autism, 24(2), 515–525.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361319847908
  33. De Los Reyes, A., Lerner, M.D., Keeley, L.M., Weber, R., Drabick, D.A.G., Rabinowitz, J.,
    Goodman, K.L. (2019). Improving interpretability of subjective assessments about psychological phenomena: a review and cross-cultural meta-analysis. Review of General Psychology, 23(3), 293–319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1089268019837645
  34. Marro, B.M.,¥* Kang, E.,¥* Hauschild, K.M.,* Normansell, K.M.,* Abu-Ramadan, T.M.,* Lerner, M.D. (2019). Social performance-based interventions promote gains in social knowledge in the absence of explicit training for youth with autism spectrum disorder. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 83(3), 301–325. https://doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2019.83.3.301
  35. Mikami, A.Y., Miller, M., Lerner, M.D. (2019). Social functioning in youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: transdiagnostic commonalities and differences. Clinical Psychology Review, 68, 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.12.005
  36. ​Kang, E,* Gadow, K.D., & Lerner, M.D. (2020). Atypical communication characteristics, differential diagnosis, and the autism spectrum disorder clinical phenotype in youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(2), 251–263. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2018.1539912
  37. Rosen, T.E.,* Spaulding, C.J.,* Gates, J.A.,* Gadow, K.D., & Lerner, M.D. (2019).
    Autism severity, co-occurring psychopathology, and intellectual functioning predict supportive school services for youth with ASD. Autism, 23(7), 1805–1816. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 1362361318809690
  38. Keifer, C.M.,* Dichter, G.A., McPartland, J.C., Lerner, M.D. (2019). Social motivation in
    autism: gaps and directions for measurement of a putative core construct [Commentary on Jaswal & Akhtar]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, e95.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18002418
  39. Kim, H.,* Keifer, C.M.,* Rodriguez‐Seijas, C.,* Eaton, N.R., Lerner, M.D., & Gadow, K.D. (2019). Quantifying the optimal structure of the autism phenotype: a comprehensive comparison of dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(9), 876–886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2018.09.431
  40. ​Scott, M., Milbourn, B., Falkmer, M., Bӧlte, S., Halladay, A., Lerner. M.D., Lounds-Taylor, J., Girdler, S. (2019). Factors impacting employment for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A scoping review. Autism, 23(4), 869–901. 
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318787789
  41. De Los Reyes, A., Makol, B.A., Racz, S.J., Youngstrom, E.A., Lerner, M.D., Keely, L.M. (2019). The Work and Social Adjustment Scale for Youth: a measure for assessing youth psychosocial impairment regardless of mental health status. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1238-6
  42. Gates, J.A.,* Kang, E.,* Lerner, M.D. (2017). Efficacy of group social skills interventions for youth with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 52, 164–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.006
  43. Mendelson, J.L.*, Gates, J.A.,* & Lerner, M.D. (2016). Friendship in school-age boys with autism spectrum disorders: a meta-analytic summary and developmental, process-based model. Psychological Bulletin, 142(6), 601–622. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000041
  44. Kang, E.,* McPartland, J.C., Keifer, C.M.,* Foss-Feig, J.H., Levy, E.J.,* & Lerner, M.D. (2019). What must a neural signal mark to be called a biomarker?: reply to Vettori, Jacques, Boets, and Rossion (2018). Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(3), 324–325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.09.004
  45. Kang, E.,* Keifer, C.M.,* Levy, E.J.,* Foss-Feig, J.H., McPartland, J.C., & Lerner, M.D. (2018). Atypicality of the N170 event-related potential in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(8), 657–666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.11.003
  46. Rosen, T.E.,* Mazefsky, C.A., Vasa, R.A., & Lerner, M.D. (2018). Co-occurring psychiatric
    conditions in autism spectrum disorder. International Review of Psychiatry, 30(1), 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2018.1450229
  47. Libsack, E.,* Clarkson, T.,* & Lerner, M.D. (2018). Unique perspectives: harnessing multimodal
    assessment to understand how children with autism decode the social world. Behavioral Health News, 6(1), 35. https://www.bbrfoundation.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/bhn-summer2018_0.pdf
  48. Rosen, T.E.,* & Lerner, M.D. (2018). Error-related brain activity and anxiety symptoms in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 11(2), 342–354.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1898
  49. Black, S.R.,* Lerner, M.D., Shirtcliff, E.A., & Klein, D.N. (2018). Patterns of neuroendocrine
    coupling in 9-Year-Old children: effects of sex, body-mass index, and life stress. Biological Psychology, 132, 252–259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.11.004
  50. ​Goldstein, T.R., Lerner, M.D. (2018). Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12603. 
    https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12603
  51. Kerns, C.M., Moskowitz, L., Rosen, T.*, Drahota, A., Wainer, A., Josephson, A.,* Soorya, L., Cohn, E., Chacko, A., & Lerner, M.D. (2019). A multi-site, multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study describing "usual care" intervention practices for school- to transition-age youth with autism. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 48(sup1), S247–S268. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2017.1410826
  52. Mayor Torres, J.M., Clarkson, T., Stepanov, E.A., Luhmann, C.C., Lerner, M.D., Riccardi, G. (2018). Enhanced Error Decoding from Error-Related Potentials Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Honolulu, HI, July 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512183
  53. Lerner, M.D., ¥ Mazefsky, C.A., ¥ Weber, R.J.,* Transue, E., Siegel, M.S., Gadow, K.D., and the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Inpatient Research Collaborative (2018). Verbal ability and psychiatric symptoms in clinically-referred inpatient and outpatient youth with ASD. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 48(11), 3689–3701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3344-5
  54. Tudor, M.E.,* Rankin, J.A.,* Lerner, M.D. (2018). A Model of Family and Child Functioning in Siblings of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders. 48(4), 1210–1227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3352-5
  55. Lerner, M.D.,  De Los Reyes, A., Drabick, D.A.G., Gerber, A.H.,* Gadow, K.D. (2017). Informant discrepancy defines discrete, clinically-useful autism spectrum disorder subgroups. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(7), 829–839. 
    https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12730
  56. Fjermestad, K.W., Lerner, M.D., McLeod, B.D., Wergeland, G.H., Haugland, B.S.M., Havik, O.E., Öst, L.E., Silverman, W.K. (2018). Motivation and treatment credibility predict alliance in cognitive behavioral treatment for youth with anxiety disorders in community clinics. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(6), 793–805. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22551
  57. Keenan, E.G.,* Gotham, K., Lerner, M.D. (2018). Hooked on a feeling: repetitive cognition  and internalizing symptomatology in relation to autism spectrum symptomatology. Autism, 22(7), 814–824​. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361317709603
  58. Kim, H.,* Keifer, C.M.,* Rodrguez-Seijas, C.,* Eaton, N.R., Lerner, M.D., Gadow, K.D. (2018). Structural hierarchy of autism spectrum disorder symptoms: an integrative framework. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(1), 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12698
  59. Wainer, A., Drahota, A., Cohn, E., Kerns, C., Lerner, M. D., Marro, B.,* Moskowitz, L., Soorya, L (2017). Understanding the landscape of psychosocial intervention practices for social, emotional, and behavioral challenges in youth with ASD: A study protocol.  Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(3), 178–197.  https://doi.org/10.1080/19315864.2017.1284289
  60. Lerner, M.D., Mazefsky, C.A., White, S.W., McPartland, J.C. (2018). Autism spectrum disorder. In J. Butcher, J. Hooley, P.C. Kendall (Eds.), American Psychological Association Handbook of Psychopathology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000065-000 
  61. Lerner, M.D., Rosen, T.E.,* Kang, E.,* Keifer, C.M.,* Gerber, A.* (2019). Autism spectrum disorder. In Ollendick, T.H., White, S.W., & White, B.A. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (pp. 223 - 234). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190634841.013.15
  62. Lerner, M.D., Girard, R.M. (2018). Appreciating and promoting social creativity in youth with
    Asperger’s Syndrome. In Kaufman, S.B. (Ed.), Supporting and Educating Twice-Exceptional Children (pp. 203 - 214). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645472.001.0001
  63. Goldstein, T.R., Lerner, M.D., Winner, E. (2017). The arts as a venue for developmental science: realizing a latent opportunity. Child Development, 10(3), 178–197.   
    https://doi.org/10.1080/19315864.2017.1284289
  64. Fjermestad, K.W., Lerner, M.D., McLeod, B.D., Wergeland, G.H., Heiervang, E.R., Silverman, W.K.,Öst, L.E., De Los Reyes, A., Havik, O.E., Haugland, B.S.M. (2016). Therapist-youth agreement on alliance change predicts outcome in CBT for youth anxiety disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(5), 625–632. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12485
  65. Kang, E.,* Klein, E.F.,* Lillard, A.S. & Lerner, M.D. (2016). Predictors and moderators of spontaneous pretend play in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1577. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01577
  66. Rosen, T.E.*, Lerner, M.D. (2016). Externalizing and internalizing symptoms moderate longitudinal patterns of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 46(8), 2621–2634. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2800-y
  67. De Los Reyes, A., Aldao, A., Qasmieh, N., Dunn, E.J., Lipton, M.F., Hartman, C., Dougherty, L.R., Youngstrom, E.A., Lerner, M.D. (2017). Graphical representations of adolescents' psychophysiological reactivity to social stressor tasks: reliability and validity of the chernoff face approach and person-centered profiles for clinical use. Psychological Assessment, 29(4), 422–434. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000354
  68. Spaulding, C.J.,* Lerner, M.D.,  Gadow, K.D. (2017). Trajectories and correlates of special
    education supports for youth with autism spectrum disorder and psychiatric comparisons. Autism, 21(4), 423–435. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361316645428
  69. Meyer, A.* Lerner, M.D., De Los Reyes, A. Laird, R., Hajcak, G. (2017). Considering ERP difference scores as individual difference measures: issues with subtraction and alternative approaches. Psychophysiology, 54(1), 114–122. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12664
  70. Garman, H.D.,* Spaulding, C.,* Webb, S.J., Mikami, A.Y., Morris, J.P., Lerner, M.D. (2016). Wanting it too much: an inverse relation between social motivation and facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 47(6), 890–902. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-015-0620-5
  71. Hauser, M.J., Kohn, R., Lerner, M.D., Stein, M., Lory, B., Bursztajn, H.J. (2017). Intellectual disabilities, autism, and aging: medical-legal issues. In Holzer, J.C. (Eds). Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Principles and Practice. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199374656.003.0031
  72. Moskowitz, L. J., Rosen, T.,* Lerner, M. D., & Levine, K. (2017). Assessment of anxiety in youth with autism spectrum disorder. In C. Kerns, E. Storch, P. Kendall, J. J. Wood, & P. Renno (Eds.), Evidence Based Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. (pp. 79–104). Elsevier.https://www.elsevier.com/books/anxiety-in-children-and-adolescents-with-autism-spectrum-disorder/kerns/978-0-12-805122-1
  73. Rankin, J.A.,* Weber, R.J.,* Kang, E.,* Lerner, M.D. (2016). Parent- and self-reported social skills importance in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 46(1), 273–286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-015-2574-7
  74. Gabriel, J.,* Angevin, E.,* Rosen, T.,* Lerner, M.D. (2016). Use of theatrical techniques and elements as interventions for autism spectrum disorders. In Sofia, G. (Ed.), Theater and Cognitive Neuroscience. Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/theatre-and-cognitive-neuroscience-9781472584809/
  75. Lerner, M.D., Potthoff, L.M.,* Hunter, S.J. (2015). Optimizing cross-sectional prediction of social functioning in youth referred for neuropsychological testing. PLoS one, 10(5), e0128303. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128303
  76. Lerner, M.D., & Lillard, A.S. (2015). From false belief to friendship: commentary on Fink, Begeer, Peterson, Slaughter, & de Rosnay. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(1),18–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12070
  77. Tudor, M.E,* Lerner, M.D. (2015). Intervention and support for siblings of youth with  developmental disabilities: a systematic review. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 18, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-014-0175-1
  78. White, S.W.¥, Lerner, M.D.¥, McLeod, B.D., Wood, J.J., Ginsburg, G., Kerns, C., Ollendick, T.,  Kendall, P.C., Piacentini, J., Walkup, J., Compton, S. (2015). Anxiety in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders: Examination of factorial equivalence. Behavior Therapy,  46(1), 40–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2014.05.005
  79. Lerner, M.D., White, S.W. (2015). Moderators and mediators of treatment for youth with autism spectrum disorders. In M. Maric, P.J.M. Prins, & T.H. Ollendick (Eds), Moderators and Mediators of Youth Treatment Outcomes (p. 146). https://doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199360345.003.0007
  80. Tudor, M.E.*, Walsh, C.E., Mulder, E.C., & Lerner, M.D. (2015). Pain as a predictor of sleep problems in a sample of youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism, 19(3), 292–300. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361313518994
  81. Webb, S.J., Bernier, R., Henderson, H.A., Johnson, M.H., Jones, E.J.H., Lerner, M.D., McPartland, J.C., Nelson, C.A., Rojas, C., Townsend, J., & Westerfield, M. (2015). Guidelines and best practices for electrophysiological data collection, analysis and reporting in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(2), 425–443. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-013-1916-6
  82. Mendelson, J.L.,* & Lerner, M.D. (2014). Friendship among school aged boys with ASD, Autism Spectrum News, 7(2), 17, 27, 33: https://www.autismspectrumnews.org/wp-    content/uploads/2018/05/ASN-Fall2014.pdf
  83. Riskind, R.G., Palmquist, C.M., Kondrad, R.L., Lerner, M.D. (2014, September 2). How to survive your first year on the tenure track: Year 1 as an assistant professor is every bit as rough as you’ve heard. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-survive-your-first-year/148515cid=at&utm_medium=en&utm_source=at
  84. Guli, L. A., Semrud-Clikeman, M., Lerner, M. D., & Britton, N. (2013). Social Competence Intervention Program (SCIP): A pilot study of a creative drama program for youth with social difficulties. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 40(1), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2012.09.002
  85. McMahon, C.M., Lerner, M.D., Britton, N. (2013). Group-based social skills interventions for adolescents with higher-functioning autism spectrum disorders: a review and looking to the future. Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 4, 23–38. 
    https://doi.org/10.2147/AHMT.S25402
  86. White, S. W., Kreiser, N. L., & Lerner, M. D. (2014). Autism spectrum disorders. In C. A. Alfano & D. Beidel (Eds.), Comprehensive Evidence-Based Interventions for School-Aged Children and Adolescents (pp. 213 - 230). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Comprehensive+Evidence+Based+Interventions+for+Children+and+Adolescents-p-9781118487563
  87. De Los Reyes, A., Lerner, M.D., Goepel, K.A., Daruwala, S.E., Thomas, S.A. (2013). Discrepancies between parent and adolescent beliefs about daily life topics and performance on an emotion recognition task. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41(6), 971–982. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-013-9733-0
  88. Lerner, M.D., Mikami, A.Y. (2013). Correct effect size estimates for strength of association statistics: Comment on Odgaard & Fowler (2010). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 40(1), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2012.09.002
  89. Guli, L.A., Semrud-Clikeman, M., Lerner, M.D., Britton, N. (2013). Use of creative drama as intervention for children with social competence deficits. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 40, 37 - 44. DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2012.09.002.
  90. Lillard, A.S., Hopkins, E.J., Dore, R.A., Palmquist, C.M., Lerner, M.D., Smith, E.D. (2013). Concepts and theories, methods and reasons: Why do the children (pretend) play? Reply to to Weisberg, Hirsh-Pasek, and Golinkoff (2013); Bergen (2013); and Walker and Gopnik (2013). Psychological Bulletin, 139(1), 49–52. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030521
  91. Lerner, M.D., Morris, J.P., McPartland, J.C.  (2012). Processing of emotional faces and  voices in Autism Spectrum Disorders: ERP Correlates and Interaction with Social Knowledge. Psychophysiology, Special Issue: Society for Psychophysiological Research,
    Abstracts for the Fifty‐Second Annual Meeting, The Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel, New 

    Orleans, Louisiana, September 19–23, 2012, 49, S6.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01420.x
  92. Lerner, M.D., McLeod, B.D., Mikami, A.Y. (2013). An observational measure of group cohesion for parent- and youth-focused psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 69(3), 191–208. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcdlp.21933
  93. Lerner, M.D., McPartland, J.C., Morris, J.P. (2013). Mutlimodal emotion processing in autism spectrum disorders: an event-related potential study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2012.08.005
  94. Lillard, A.S., Lerner, M.D., Hopkins, E.J., Dore, R.A., Smith, E.D., & Palmquist, C.M. (2013). The impact of pretend play on children's development: a review of the evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 139(1), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029321
  95. Mikami, A.Y., Griggs, M.S., Lerner, M.D., Emeh, C.C., Reuland, M.M., Jack, A., Anthony, M.R. (2013). A randomized trial of a classroom intervention to increase peers’ social inclusion of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,  81(1), 100–112. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029654
  96. Linkenauger, S., Lerner, M.D., Ramenzoni, V., Proffitt, D. (2012). A perceptual-motor deficit predicts social and communicative impairments in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research, 5(5), 352–362. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1248
  97. Lerner, M.D., White, S.W., McPartland, J.C. (2012). Mechanisms of change in psychosocial interventions for autism spectrum disorders. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 14(3), 307 - 318. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513684/
  98. Lerner, M.D., Calhoun, C.D., Mikami, A.Y., De Los Reyes, A. (2012). Understanding parent-child social informant discrepancy in youth with high functioning autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(12), 2680–2692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-012-1525-9
  99. Lerner, M.D., Mikami, A.Y. (2012). A preliminary randomized controlled trial of two social skills interventions for youth with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 27(3), 147–157. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088357612450613
  100. Lerner, M.D., McMahon, C.M., Britton, N. (2014). Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adolescents: Promoting Social and Emotional Development. In T.P. Gullotta & M. Bloom (Eds.),  Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion: Adolescence (2nd ed., pp. 1023–1033). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5999-6_192
  101. Lerner, M.D., Haque, O.S., Northrup, E.C., Lawer, L., Bursztajn H.J. (2012) Emerging perspectives on adolescents and young adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorders, violence, and criminal law. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law,, 40(2), 177–190. Erratum in 40(3), 445. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22635288
  102. Lerner, M.D. (2011). Editorial. Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture, 1(1), v-vii http://journals.sfu.ca/jjsc/index.php/journal/article/view/1/1
  103. Lerner, M.D., Mikami, A.Y., McLeod, B.D. (2011). The alliance in a friendship coaching intervention for parents of children with ADHD. Behavior Therapy, 42(3), 449–
    461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2010.11.006
  104. Lerner, M.D., Hutchins, T., Prelock, P. (2011). Brief report: preliminary evaluation of the Theory of Mind Inventory (ToMI) and its relationship to measures of social skills. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(4), 512-517. doi: 10.1007/s10803-010-1066-z. 
  105. Mikami, A.Y. Lerner, M.D., Griggs, M.S., McGrath, A., Calhoun, C.D. (2010). Parental influence on children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: II. A pilot intervention training parents as friendship coaches for their children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38(6), 737-749. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-010-9403-4
  106. Lerner, M.D., Mikami, A.Y., Levine, K. (2011). Socio-Dramatic Affective-Relational Intervention for Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: Pilot Study. Autism, 15(1), 21 - 42. Translated & reprinted in Autismo, 10, 151 – 175.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361309353613
  107. Mikami, A.Y., Lerner, M.D., Lun, J. (2010) Social Context Influences on Children’s Rejection by Their Peers. Child Development Perspectives. 4(2), 123 - 130. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2010.00130.x
  108. Mikami, A.Y., Jack, A., Lerner, M.D.. (2009) Chapter Nine: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In J.L. Matson (Ed.), Social Behavior and Skills in Children (pp. 159 - 185). New York: Springer. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781441902337
  109. Lerner M.D., Levine K. (2007). The Spotlight Method: An Integrative Approach to Teaching Social Pragmatics Using Dramatic Principles. Journal of Developmental Processes, 2(2), 91- 102. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downloaddoi=10.1.1.511.8436&rep=rep1&type=pdf


* = Student author.      ¥ = Joint first-authorship.
Bold = Reflective of current direction of the lab.



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