Publications
In Press
Clocksin, H. E., Abbene, E. E., & Christ, S. E. (in press). A Comprehensive Assessment of Neurocognitive and Psychological Functioning in Adults with Early-Treated Phenylketonuria (PKU). Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. [Request Reprint]
Brown, A. A., Clocksin, H. E., Abbene, E. E., & Christ, S. E. (in press). Basal Ganglia Morphometry in Individuals with Early-Treated Phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism. [Request Reprint]
2022
Abgottspon, S., Muri, R., Christ, S. E., Hochuli, M., Radojewski, P., Trepp, R., & Everts, R. (2022). Neural correlates of working memory and its association with metabolic parameters in early-treated adults with phenylketonuria. NeuroImage. Clinical, 34, 102974. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Burton, B. K., Hermida, Á., Bélanger-Quintana, A., Bell, H., Bjoraker, K. J., Christ, S. E., Grant, M. L., Harding, C. O., Huijbregts, S., Longo, N., McNutt, M. C., 2nd, Nguyen-Driver, M. D., Santos Pessoa, A. L., Rocha, J. C., Sacharow, S., Sanchez-Valle, A., Sivri, H. S., Vockley, J., Walterfang, M., Whittle, S., … Muntau, A. C. (2022). Management of early treated adolescents and young adults with phenylketonuria: Development of international consensus recommendations using a modified Delphi approach. Molecular genetics and metabolism, 137(1-2), 114–126. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Cissne, M. N., Kester, L. E., Gunn, A., Bodner, K. E., Miles, J. H., & Christ, S. E. (2022). Brief Report: A Preliminary Study of the Relationship between Repetitive Behaviors and Concurrent Executive Function Demands in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 52(4), 1896–1902. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2021
Clocksin, H. E., Hawks, Z. W., White, D. A., & Christ, S. E. (2021). Inter- and Intra-Tract Analysis of White Matter Abnormalities in Individuals with Early-Treated Phenylketonuria (PKU). Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, 132, 11-18. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Abbene, E. E., Clocksin, H. E., & Wegrzyn, A. K. (2021). Motor control and learning in individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria. Neuropsychology, 35, 731-741. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2020
Aldridge, K., Cole, K.K., Moffitt, A.J., Peck, D., White, D.A., & Christ, S.E. (2020). The Effects of Early-Treated Phenylketonuria on Volumetric Measures of the Cerebellum. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports, 25. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S.E., Clocksin, H. E., Burton, B. K., Grant, M. L., Waisbren, S., Paulin, M-C., Bilder, D. A., White, D. A., & Saville, C. (2020). Executive function in phenylketonuria (PKU): Insights from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and a large sample of individuals with PKU. Neuropsychology, 34(4), 456-466. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Hegarty, J. P., Zamzow, R. M., Ferguson, B. J., Christ, S. E., Porges, E. C., Johnson, J. D., and Beversdorf, D. Q. (2020). Beta-adrenergic antagonism alters functional connectivity during associative processing in a preliminary study of individuals with and without autism. Autism, 24, 795-801. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Koppes, E. A., Redel, B., Johnson, M. A., Skvorak, K., Ghaloul-Gonzalez, L., Yates, M., Lewis, D., Gollin, S., Wu, Y. L., Christ, S. E., Yerle, M., Leshinski, A., Spate, L., Benne, J., Murphy, S., Samuel, M., Walters, E., Hansen, S., Wells, K., Lichter-Konecki, U., Wagner R., Newsome, J., Dobrowolski, S., Vockley, J., Prather, R., & Nicholls, R. (2020). A porcine model of phenylketonuria generated by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. JCI Insight, 5, e141523. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Nair, N., Hegarty, J. P., Ferguson, B. J., Hecht, P. M., Tilley, M., Christ, S. E., & Beversdorf, D. Q. (2020). Effects of stress on functional connectivity during problem solving. NeuroImage, 208, 116407. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Nair, N., Hegarty, J. P., Ferguson, B. J., Hooshmand, S. J., Hecht, P. M., Tilley, M., Christ, S. E., and Beversdorf, D. Q. (2020). Effects of stress on functional connectivity during verbal processing. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 14, 2708-2723. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2019
Bodner, K.E., Cowan, N., & Christ, S.E. (2019). Contributions of filtering and attentional allocation to working memory performance in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Boland, K.M., Stichter, J.P., Beversdorf, D.Q., & Christ, S.E. (2019). Brief Report: Flanker visual filtering ability in older adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 422-428. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Hegarty, J.P., Zamzow, R.M., Ferguson, B.J., Christ, S.E., Porges, E.C., Johnson, J.D., & Beversdorf, D.Q. (2019). Beta-adrenergic antagonism alters functional connectivity during associative processing in a preliminary study of individuals with and without autism. Autism. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2017
Christ, S. E., Stichter, J. P., O’Connor, K. V., Bodner, K., Moffitt, A. J., & Herzog, M. J. (2017). Social Skills Intervention Participation and Associated Improvements in Executive Function Performance. Autism Research and Treatment, 2017, 5843851. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Hawks, Z., Shimony, J., Rutlin, J., Grange, D. K., Christ, S. E., & White, D. A. (2017). Pretreatment cognitive and neural differences between sapropterin dihydrochloride responders and non-responders with phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports, 12, 8–13. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Hegarty, J.P., Ferguson, B.J., Zamzow, R.M, Rohowetz, L.J., Johnson, J.D., Christ, S.E., & Beversdorf, D.Q. (2017). Beta-adrenergic antagonism modulates functional connectivity in the default mode network of individuals with and without autism spectrum disorder. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 11: 1278. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2016
Christ, S.E., Price, M.H., Bodner, K.E., Saville, C., Moffitt, A.J., & Peck, D. (2016). Morphometric analysis of gray matter integrity in individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria, Mol. Genet. Metab. 118, 3–8. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2015
Hood, A., Antenor-Dorsey, J.A., Rutlin, J., Hershey, T., Shimony, J.S., McKinstry, R.C., Grange, D.K., Christ, S.E., Steiner, R., & White, D. A. (2015). Prolonged Exposure to High and Variable Phenylalanine Levels over the Lifetime Predicts Brain White Matter Integrity in Children with Phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 114(1), 19–24. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Johnstone, B., Cohen, D., Bryant, K. R., Glass, B., & Christ, S. E. (2015). Functional and structural indices of empathy: Evidence for self-orientation as a neuropsychological foundation of empathy. Neuropsychology, 29(3), 463-472. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]]
2014
Hood, A., Grange, D. K., Christ, S. E., Steiner, R., & White, D. A. (2014). Variability in Phenylalanine Control Predicts IQ and Executive Abilities in Children with Phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 111(4), 445–451. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Li, D., Christ, S. E., & Cowan, N. (2014). Domain-general and domain-specific neural networks in working memory. NeuroImage, 102, 646-656. PMID 25178986; PMCID 4252243. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Peng, H., Peck, D., White, D.A., & Christ, S.E. (2014) Tract-based evaluation of white matter damage in individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria, J. Inherit. Metab. Dis. 37, 237–243. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Zamzow, R. M., Christ, S. E., Saklayen, S. S., Moffitt, A. J., Bodner, K. E., Higgins, K. F., & Beversdorf, D. Q. (2014). Effect of propranolol on facial scanning in autism spectrum disorder: A preliminary investigation. Journal Of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, 36(4), 431-445. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2013
Antenor-Dorsey, J., Hershey, T., Rutlin, J., Shimony, J. S, Robert McKinstry, R., Grange, D. K., Christ, S. E., and White, D. A. (2013). White matter integrity and executive abilities in individuals with phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, 109, 125-131. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Araujo, G. C., Christ, S. E., Grange, D. K., Steiner, R. D., Coleman, C., Timmerman, E., & White, D. A. (2013). Executive response monitoring and inhibitory control in children with phenylketonuria: Effects of expectancy. Developmental Neuropsychology, 38, 139-152. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Moffit, A. J., Peck, D. & White, D. A. (2013). The effects of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) treatment on brain function in individuals with phenylketonuria. NeuroImage: Clinical, 3, 539-547. PMID 24371792; PMCID 3871382. [Open Access] [Request Reprint]
Daluwatte, C., Miles, J. H., Christ, S. E., Beversdorf, D. Q., Takahashi, T. N., & Yao, G. (2013). Atypical pupillary light reflex and heart rate variability in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 43, 1910-1925. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
White, D. A., Antenor-Dorsey, J. V., Grange, D. K., Hershey, T., Rutlin, J., Shimony, J. S.,, McKinstry, R. C., & Christ, S. E. (2013). White matter integrity and executive abilities following treatment with tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) in individuals with phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, 110, 213-217. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2012
Bodner, K. E., Aldridge, K., Moffitt, A. J., Peck, D., White, D. A., & Christ, S. E. (2012). A volumetric study of basal ganglia structures in individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, 107, 302-307. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Bodner, K. E., Beversdorf, D. Q., Saklayen, S. S., & Christ, S. E. (2012). Noradrenergic moderation of working memory impairments in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18, 556-564. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Moffitt, A. J., Peck, D., & White, D. A. (2012). Decreased functional brain connectivity in individuals with early-treated phenylketonuria: Evidence from resting state fMRI data. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 35, 807-816. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Daluwatte, C., Miles, J.H., Christ, S.E., Beversdorf, D.Q., Lofgreen, A., Berliner, N., & Yao, G. (2012). Age-dependent pupillary light reflex parameters in children. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Volume: 2012 (2012) 3776-9. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Johnstone, B., Bodling, A., Cohen, D., Christ, S. E., & Wegrzyn, A. (2012). Right parietal lobe-related "selflessness" as the neuropsychological basis of spiritual transcendence. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 22, 267-284. [Request Reprint]
Kanne, S. M., Wang, J. L., & Christ, S. E. (in press). The Subthreshold Autism Trait Questionnaire (SATQ): Development of a brief self-report measure of subthreshold autism traits. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disabilities, 42, 769-780. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2011
Beversdorf, D. Q., Saklayen, S., Higgins, K. F., Narayanan, A., Bodner, K. E., Kanne, S. M., & Christ, S. E. (2011). Effect of propranolol on word fluency in autism spectrum disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 24(1), 11-17. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Kester, L. E., Bodner, K., & Miles, J. (2011). Evidence for selective inhibitory impairment in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychology, 25, 690-701. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Cowan, N., Li, D., Moffitt, A., Becker, T. M., Martin, E. A., Saults, J. S., & Christ, S. E. (2011). A neural region of abstract working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2852-2863. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
McAuley, T., Christ, S. E., & White, D. A. (2011). Mapping the development of response inhibition in young children using a modified day-night task. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(5), 539-551. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2010
Christ, S. E., Huijbregts, S. C. J., de Sonneville, L. M. J., & White, D. A. (2010). Executive function in early-treated phenylketonuria: Profile and underlying mechanisms. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, 99, S22-32. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Moffitt, A. J., & Peck, D. (2010). Disruption of prefrontal function and connectivity in individuals with phenylketonuria. Molecular Genetics & Metabolism, 99, S33-40. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Kanne, S. M., & Reiersen, A. (2010). Executive function in individuals with sub-threshold autism traits. Neuropsychology, 24, 590-598. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2009
Araujo, G., Christ, S. E., Steiner, R. D., Grange, D. K., Nardos, B., McKinstry, R. C., & White, D. A. (2009). Response monitoring in children with phenylketonuria. Neuropsychology, 23, 130-134.[PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Van Essen, D. C., Watson, J. M., Brubaker, L., & McDermott, K. B. (2009). The Contributions of Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Control to Deception: Evidence from Activation Likelihood Estimate Meta-Analyses. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 1557-1566. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
He, Q., Christ, S.E., Karsch, K., Moffitt, A. J., Peck, D., & Duan, Y. (2009). Detecting 3D corpus callosum abnormalities in phenylketonuria. International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, 2, 289-301. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Kanne, S. M., Christ S. E., & Reiersen, A. M. (2009). Psychiatric Symptoms and Psychosocial Difficulties in Young Adults with Autistic Traits. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 39, 827-833. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
McDermott, K. B., Szpunar, K. K., & Christ, S. E. (2009). Laboratory-based and autobiographical retrieval tasks differ substantially in their neural substrates. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2290-2298. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2008
Christ, S.E. & Abrams, R. A. (2008). The Attentional Influence of New Objects and New Motion. Journal of Vision, 8(3):27, 1-8. [PubMed] [View Article] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Castel A. D., & Abrams, R. A. (2008). Capture of attention by new motion in young and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63(2):P110-6. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2007
Christ, S. E., Holt, D., White, D. A., & Green, L. (2007). Inhibitory control in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, 37, 1155-1165. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Moinuddin, A., McKinstry, R. C., DeBaun, M., & White, D. A. (2007). Inhibitory control in children with frontal infarcts related to sickle cell disease. Child Neuropsychology, 13, 132-141. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2006
Abrams, R. A., & Christ, S. E. (2006). Motion onset captures attention: A rejoinder to Franconeri & Simons (2005). Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 114-117. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., & Finger, S. (2006). Retardation in the family: Pearl S. Buck and phenylketonuria. In N. Blau (Ed.), PKU and BH4: Advances in phenylketonuria and tetrahydrobiopterin research (pp. 35-49). Helibronn, Germany: SPS Publishing. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., & Abrams, R. A. (2006). Just like new: Newly segregated old objects capture attention. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 301-309. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., & Abrams, R. A. (2006). Abrupt onsets cannot be ignored. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 875-880. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., Steiner, R. D., Grange, D. K., Abrams, R. A., & White, D. A. (2006). Inhibitory control in children with phenylketonuria. Developmental Neuropsychology, 30, 845-864. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
McCauley, T., Yap, M., Christ, S. E., & White, D. A. (2006). Revisiting inhibitory control across the life span: Insights from the ex-gaussian distribution. Developmental Neuropsychology, 29, 447-458. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2005
Abrams, R. A., & Christ, S. E. (2005). Onset but not offset of irrelevant motion disrupts inhibition of return. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 1460-1467. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Abrams, R. A., & Christ, S. E. (2005). The onset of receding motion captures attention: Comment on Franconeri & Simons (2003). Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 219-223. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E. (2005). Inhibitory control. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), The encyclopedia of human development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [Request Reprint]
White, D. A., & Christ, S. E. (2005). Executive control of learning and memory in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 290-294. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2004
Finger, S., & Christ, S. E. (2004). Pearl S. Buck and phenylketonuria (PKU). Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 13, 44-57. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2003
Abrams, R. A., & Christ, S. E. (2003). Motion onset captures attention. Psychological Science, 14, 427-432. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Brandling-Bennett, E. M., White, D. A., Armstrong, M. M., Christ, S. E., & DeBaun, M. (2003). Patterns of verbal long-term and working memory performance reveal deficits in strategic processing in children with frontal infarcts related to sicle cell disease. Developmental Neuropsychology, 24, 423-434. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E. (2003). Asbjørn Følling and the discovery of phenylketonuria. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 12, 44-54. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., White, D. A., Brunstrom, J. E., & Abrams, R. A. (2003). Inhibitory control following perinatal brain injury. Neuropsychology, 17, 171-178. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
2001-2002
Christ, S. E., McCrae, C. S., & Abrams, R. A. (2002). Inhibition of return in static and dynamic displays. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 80-85. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]
Christ, S. E., White, D. A., Mandernach, T., & Keys, B. A. (2001). Inhibitory control across the lifespan. Developmental Neuropsychology, 20(3), 653-669. [PubMed] [Request Reprint]