Research & Publications
Dr. Nair runs the Neurodevelopmental Applied Imaging Intervention Research (NAIIR) Lab at Loma Linda University. Her current research interests are in the neural basis of social cognition deficits in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and early-onset psychosis. Dr. Nair’s research has been supported by grants awarded by Autism Speaks, Autism Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Publications
Iwamoto, B. K., Neece, C. L., Nair, A., Rockwood, N. J., Fenning, R. M., Krantz, M. L., & Van Dyk, T. R. (2023). Exploring bidirectional relationships: Child sleep duration, child behavior problems, and parenting stress in families of children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 106, 102197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102197
Nair A, Jalal R, Liu J, Tsang T, McDonald NM, Jackson L, Ponting C, Jeste SS, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. (2021). Altered Thalamocortical Connectivity in 6-Week-Old Infants at High Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cereb Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab078. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33866373.
Jalal R, Nair A, Lin A, Eckfeld A, Kushan L, Zinberg J, Karlsgodt KH, Cannon TD, Bearden CE. (2021). Social cognition in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and idiopathic developmental neuropsychiatric disorders. J Neurodev Disord,13(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s11689-021-09363-4. PubMed PMID: 33863277; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8052741.
Nair, A., Jolliffe, M., Lograsso, Y. S., Bearden, C. (2020). A review of altered default mode network connectivity and its association with social cognition in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and early-onset schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00614.
Nair, A., Eyer, J. C., & Faust, M. E. (2020). Neurophysiologic evidence for increased retrieval suppression among negative ruminators. Braini9ot5r6 and Behavior, 10(9), e01748. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1748
Abbott, A.E., Linke, A., Nair, A., Jahedi, A., Alba, L., Keown, C.L., Fishman, I., Müller, R.A. (2018). Repetitive behaviors in autism are linked to imbalance in corticostriatal connectivity: A functional connectivity MRI study. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/13/1/32/4644825.
Keehn, B., Nair, A., Lincoln, A.J., Townsend, J., Müller, R.A. (2016). Under-Reactive but Easily Distracted: An fMRI Investigation of Attentional Capture in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 46-56. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929315300608
Nair, A., Carper, R., Abbott, A. E., Chen, C., Solders, S., Nakutin, S., Datko, M., Fishman, I., Müller, R.A. (2015). Regional specificity of aberrant thalamocortical connectivity in autism spectrum disorders. Human Brain Mapping. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22938
Abbott, A. E., Nair, A., Keown, C. L., Datko, M.C., Jahedi, A., Fishman, I., Müller, R.A. (2015). Patterns of atypical functional connectivity and behavioral links in autism differ between default, salience, and executive networks. Cerebral Cortex. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv191.
Khan, A.J., Nair, A., Keown, C.L., Datko, M., Lincoln, A., Müller, R.A. (2015). Cerebro-cerebellar resting state functional connectivity in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.03.024.
Chen, C.P., Keown, C.L., Jahedi, A., Nair, A., Pflieger, M.E., Bailey, B. A., Müller, R.A. (2015). Diagnostic classification of intrinsic functional connectivity highlights somatosensory, default mode, and visual regions in autism. NeuroImage. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158215000698
Graham, S.A., Abbott, A.E., Nair, A., Lincoln, A.J., Müller, R.A., Goble, D.J. (2014). The influence of task difficulty and participant age on balance control in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2303-7.
Nair, A., Keown, C.L., Datko, M.C., Keehn, B., Shih, P., Müller, R.A. (2014). Impact of methodological variables on functional connectivity MRI findings for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Human Brain Mapping. 35(8), 4035-48. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hbm.22456
Keown, C.L., Shih, P., Nair, A., Müller, R.A. (2013). Local functional overconnectivity in posterior brain regions is associated with symptom severity in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cell Reports, 5, 1 6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471300572X
Maximo, J.O., Keown, C.L., Nair, A., Müller, R.A. (2013). Approaches to local connectivity in autism using resting state functional connectivity MRI. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:605, 1 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00605/full
Nair, A., Treiber J., Shih, P., Müller, R.A. (2013). Impaired thalamocortical connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A study of functional and anatomical connectivity. Brain, 136, 1942-55. https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/136/6/1942/619231
Cheon, K.A., Kim, Y.S., Oh, S.H., Park, S.Y., Yoon, H.W., Herrington, J., Nair, A., Schultz, R.T., Kim, Y.S., Koh, Y. J., Leventhal, B.L., Grinker, R.R., Fombonne, E. (2011). White matter abnormalities in boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Preliminary evidence from diffusion tensor imaging. Brain Research, 1417, 77-86. Link here