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One Component of the mission of CARES and the CARES Foundation is to develop and contribute to research concerning persons with neurodevelopmental disorders. Since CARES was founded it has been an important resource to the development of student research and training, community research through small local grants and national research through federal grants sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CARES is currently a key collaborator in multiple NIH studies involving brain development in autism (Axel Muller: Principle Investigator and Jeanne Townsend: Principle Investigator), Aging in Autism (Ruth Carper: Principle Investigator), and EEG Biofeedback (Jamie Pineda: Principle Investigator). Alan Lincoln, Ph.D., MSCP the Co-director of CARES is a scientific investigator or consultant on each of these current and ongoing research projects.

CARES is also investigating the scientific validity of evidence-based treatments. Most recently CARES completed a research study that was funded in part by the National Foundation for Autism Research (NFAR) to study the effectiveness of and anxiety treatment, Coping Cat, for children and adolescents with autism. NFAR recently partially funded a study that is just beginning evaluating the effectiveness of the UCLA PEERS program to teach friendship skills in children and adolescents with autism. CARES has supported multiple studies evaluating the effectiveness of Social Stories for persons with autism. CARES also supported the development of an evidence-based parent training program for caregivers who have a child with autism.

Other research has involved CARES support for studies involving the evaluation of executive function skills in persons with autism, the evaluation of rapid intermodality shifting skills in persons with autism, the identification and resources for Native Americans with autism, and the evaluation of attention skills for persons with autism.

CARES periodically is interested in finding volunteers to participate in its ongoing research. Please contact CARES at 858-444-8823 if you would like to participate.

Scientific Research Including CARES Researchers

• Courchesne, E., Kilman, B.A., Galambos, R., & Lincoln, A.J. Autism: Processing of novel auditory information assessed by event-related potentials. Electroencephalograph. Clin. Neurophysiol.: Evoked Potentials, 59: 238-248, 1984.
• Courchesne, E., Lincoln, A.J., Kilman, B.A. & Galambos, R. Event-related brain potential correlates of the processing of novel visual and auditory information in autism. J. Autism and Developmental Disorders, 15: 55-76, 1985.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., Kilman, B.A., and Galambos, R. Neuropsychological correlates of information processing in children with Down's Syndrome. Am. J. Mental Deficiency, 89: 403-414, 1985.
• Courchesne, E., Courchesne, R.Y., Hicks, G., & Lincoln, A.J. Functioning of the brainstem auditory pathway in non-retarded autistic individuals. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol.: Evoked Potentials, 61: 491-501, 1985.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., Kilman, B.A., & Galambos, R. Auditory EPRs and information processing in Down’s syndrome children. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol., 38: 492-495, 1986.
• Adams, J., Courchesne, E., Elmasian, R.O., & Lincoln, A.J. Increased amplitude of the auditory P2 and P3b components in adolescents with developmental dysphasia. In: Current Trends in Event-Related Potential Research. R. Johnson, J.W. Rohrbaugh, and R. Parasuraman (Eds.), Amsterdam, Elsevier, 577-583, 1987.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., and Elmasian, R.O. Hypothesis testing with principal components analysis: The dissociation of P3b and Nc. In: Current Trends in Event-Related Potential Research. R. Johnson, J.W. Rohrbaugh, and R. Parasuraman (Eds.), Amsterdam, Elsevier, 211-219, 1987.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., Kilman, B.A., and Elmasian, R.O. A study of intellectual abilities of in high-functioning people with autism. J. Autism and Developmental Disorders, 18: 508-524, 1988.
• Ameli, R., Courchesne, E., Lincoln, A.J., Kaufman, A., & Grillon, C. Visual memory processes in high-functioning individuals and autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 18: 601-615, 1988.
• Courchesne, E., Lincoln, A.J., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Elmasian, R.O., & Grillon, C. Pathophysiology in social and language disorders: Autism and developmental dysphasia. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 19, 1-18, 1989.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., & Elmasian, R. Considerations for the study of event-related brain potentials and developmental psychopathology. In: A. Rothenberger (Ed.) Brain and Behavior in Child Psychiatry. Springer-Verlag, New York, 16-33, 1990.
• Rose, J., Lincoln, A.J., & Allen, M. Ability profiles in language impaired and reading disabled children: A comparative analysis. Developmental Neuropsychology, 8 (4), 413-426, 1992.
• Allen, M., Lincoln, A.J., & Kaufman, A. Sequential and simultaneous processing abilities of high-functioning autistic and language impaired children, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 21, (4), 483-502, 1991.
• Lincoln, A.J., Dickstein, P., Courchesne, E., Elmasian, R., & Tallal, P. Auditory processing abilities in non-retarded adolescents and adults with developmental receptive language disorder and autism. Brain and Language, 43, 613-622, 1992.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., Harms, L., & Allen, M. Contextual probability evaluation in autistic, receptive developmental language disorder and control children: ERP evidence. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 23, (1), 37-58, 1993.
• Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Akshoomoff, N., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Press, G., Murakami, J., Lincoln, A.J., James, H., Saitoh, O., Haas, R., & Schriebman, L. A new finding in autism: impairment in shifting attention. In: Atypical Cognitive Deficits in Developmental Disorders: Implications for Brain Functions. S.H. Broman and J. Grafman (Eds.), 107-137, 1993.
• Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Akshoomoff, N.A., Saitoh, O., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Lincoln, A.J., James, H.E., Haas, R.H., Schreibman, L., Lau, L. Impairment in Shifting Attention in Autistic and Cerebellar Patients, Behavioral Neuroscience, 108, (5), 848-865, 1994.
• Courchesne, E., Saitoh, O., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Press, G., Lincoln, A.J., Haas, R., & Schreibmen, L. Abnormality of cerebellar vermial lobules VI and VII in patients with infantile autism: Identification of hypoplastic and hyperplastic subgroups with MR imaging. American Journal of Roentgenology, 162, 123-130, 1994.
• Courchesne, E., Saitoh, O., Townsend, J., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Press, G., Lincoln, A.J., Haas, R., and Schreibmen, L. Cerebellar hypoplasia and hyperplasia in infantile autism. The Lancet, 343, 63-64, 1994.
• Lincoln, A.J., Allen, M. & Piacentini, A. The assessment and interpretation of intellectual abilities in people with autism. In: Learning and Cognition in Autism, E. Schopler and G. Mesibov (Eds.), Plenum Press, New York, 89-117, 1995.
• Saitoh, O., Courchesne, E., Egaas, B., Lincoln, A., & Schriebman, L. Cross-sectional area of the posterior hippocampus in autistic patients with cerebellar and corpus callosum abnormalities. Neurology, 45: 317-324, 1995.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., Harms, L., & Allen, M. Sensory Modulation of Auditory Stimuli in Children with Autism and Receptive Developmental Language Disorder: ERP Evidence. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 25,5, 521-539, 1995.
• Lincoln, A.J., Kaufman, J. & Kaufman, A.S. The application of intelligence tests in clinical and psychoeducational assessment. In: Advanced Abnormal Child Psychology. M. Hersen and Robert Ammerman (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 137-156, 1995.
• Haas, R., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., Lincoln, A.J., Schreibmen, L., & Yeung-Courchesne, R. Neurologic abnormalities in infantile autism. Journal of Child Neurology, 11, 84-92, 1996.
• Kaufman, A.S., McLean, J., & Lincoln, A.J. The relationship of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to IQ level and fluid-crystallized discrepancy on the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT). Neuropsychology, 3, (3), 225-239. 1996.
• Cook, E., Lindgren, V., Leventhal, B., Courchesne, R., Lincoln, A.J., Shulman, C., Lord, C., & Courchesne, E. Autism or atypical autism in maternally but not paternally derived proximal 15q duplication. American Journal of Human Genetics, 60, 928-934, 1997.
• Cook, E., Courchesne, R., Lord, C., Cox, N., Yan, S., Lincoln, A.J., Haas, R., Courchesne, E., & Leventhal, B. Evidence of linkage between the serotonin transporter and autistic disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 2, 247-250, 1997.
• Lincoln, A.J., Bloom, D., Katz, M., & Boksenbaum, N. Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Indices of Auditory Processing Impairment in Children with Multiple Complex Developmental Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, (1), 100-112, 1998.
• Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, E., Hanson, E., & Allen, M. Neurobiology of Asperger syndrome: seven case studies and quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In E. Schopler & G. Mesibov (Eds.) Asperger Syndrome. Plenum Press, New York. 145-163, 1998.
• Uzark, K., Lincoln, A.J., Lamberti, J.J., Mainwaring, R.D., Spicer, R.L., Moore, J.W. (1998) Neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with Fontan repair of functional single ventricle. Pediatrics. 101(4 part 1): 630-633.
• Cook, E.H., Jr., Courchesne, R.Y., Cox, N.J., Lord, C., Gonen, D., Guter, S.J., Lincoln, A.J., Nix, K., Haas, R., Leventhal, B.L., Courchesne, E. Linkage-disequilibrium mapping of autistic disorder, with 15q-11-13 markers. American Journal of Human Genetics. 62(5): 1077-1083, May 1998.
• Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group, et. al. (Lincoln, A.J.) Design and implementation of a patient education center for the childhood asthma management program. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. 81(6): 571-581, December, 1998.
• Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group, et. al. (Lincoln, A.J.) Recruitment of participants in the childhood asthma management program (CAMP) I. Description of methods. Journal of Asthma. 36(3): 217-237, 1999.
• Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group, et. al. (Lincoln, A.J.) The childhood asthma management program (CAMP): design, rationale, and methods. Controlled Clinical Trials. 20: 91-120, 1999.
• Zeiger, R.S., Dawson, C, & Weiss, S, Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group, et. al. (Lincoln, A.J.) Relationships between duration of asthma and asthma severity among children in the childhood asthma management program (CAMP). Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology. 103(3 part 1): 376-387, March, 1999.
• Lincoln, A.J. & Lincoln K.A. Juvenile Court and Dependency: Guidelines and Roles for Psychologists. In The Comprehensive Textbook of Ethics and Law in the Practice of Psychology. S. Bucky, B. Bennett, D. Bersoff, Callan J. & G. Stricker (Eds.), (in press).
• Annett, R.D., Bender, B.G., Lapidus, J, DuHamel, T.R., Lincoln, A.J. Predicting Children’s Quality of Life in a Clinical Trial: What do Children’s Reports Tell Us? J Pediatr 2001 Dec; 139 (6): 854-61
• Jones, W., Bellugi, U., Lai, Z., Chiles, M., Reilly, J., Lincoln, A., & Adolphs, R. Hypersociability in Williams Syndrome. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 Supplement, 30-46, 2000)
• Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group, et al. (Lincoln, A.J.). Long-term effects of budesonide or nedocromil in children with asthma. The New England Journal of Medicine, 343 (16), 1054-1063, 2000.
• Courchesne, E., Karns, C., Davis, H., Ziccardi, R., Carper, R., Tigue, Z., Chisum, H.J., Lord, C., Lincoln, A.J., Pizzo, S., Schriebman, L., Haas, R.H., & Courchesne, R.Y. Unusual growth patterns in cerebrum and cerebellum during early life in patients with autism as quantified by in vivo MRI. Neurology 2001 Jul 24;57 (2): 245-54
• Weimer, A.K., Schatz, A.M., Lincoln, A.J., Ballantyne, A.O., & Trauner, D. “Motor” impairment in Asperger syndrome: Evidence for a deficit in proprioception. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2001 April;22 (2) :92-101
• Lincoln, A.J., Lai, Z., & Jones, W. (2002). Shifting attention and joint attention dissociation in Williams Syndrome: Implications for the cerebellum and social deficits in autism. Neurocase, 8, 226-232.
• Lincoln, A.J. & Lincoln, K.A. (2002). Juvenile Court and Dependency: Guidelines and Roles for Psychologists. N. Ribner (Ed.), In: Handbook of Juvenile Forensic Psychology, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 564-578.
• Hirota H, Matsuoka R, Chen XN, Salandanan LS, Lincoln A, Rose FE, Sunahara M, Osawa M, Bellugi U, Korenberg JR. Williams syndrome deficits in visual spatial processing linked to GTF2IRD1 and GTF2I on chromosome 7q11.23. Genet Med. 2003 Jul-Aug;5(4):311-21.
• Searcy, M.Y., Lincoln, A.J., Rose, F.E., Klima, E.S., Bevar, N. & Korenberg, J.R. (2004). The relationship between age and IQ in Williams syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2004 May;109(3):231-6.
• Akshoomoff, N., Lord, C., Lincoln, A.J., Courchesne, R., Carper, R., Townsend, J., Courchesne, E. (2004). Outcome Classification of Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorders using MRI Brain Measures Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 3, 349-358.
• Levitin, D., Cole, K., Chiles, M., Lai, Z., Lincoln, A.J., Bellugi, U. (2004). Characterizing the Musical Phenotype in Individuals with Williams Syndrome. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn C Child Neuropsychol. 2004 Dec;10(4):223-47.
• Levitin, D., Cole, K., Lincoln, A.J., & Bellugi, U (2005). Aversion, awareness, and attraction: investigating claims of hyperacuisi in the Williams syndrome phenotype. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46(5):514-23.
• Lopez, B., Lincoln, A., Ozonoff, S., & Lai, Z. (2005). Examining the relationship between executive functions and restricted, repetitive symptoms of autistic disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Aug;35(4):445-60.
• Perry, W., Minassian, A, Lopez, B., Maron, L., & Lincoln , A. (2006). Sensorimotor gating deficits in adults with autism. Biological Psychiatry
• Rose, F., Lincoln, A.J., Lai, Z., Ene, M., Searcy, Y., &Bellugi. (2007). Orientation and Affective Expression Effects on Face Recognition in Williams Syndrome and Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. J Autism Dev Disord. Mar;37(3):513-22.
• Lincoln, A.J., Hanzel, E., & Quirmbach, L. (2007). Assessing intellectual abilities of children and adolescents with autism and related disorders. In: S. Smith (Ed.), The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: A Practiotioners Guide. MidAtlantic Books and Journal, Baltimore, MD.
• Lincoln, A.J., Searcy, Y., Jones, W., & Lord, C (2007). Social interaction behaviors discriminate young children with autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Mar;46(3):323-31.
• Nonland, R., Cason, N., & Lincoln, A.J. (2007) Building a foundation for successful school transitions and educational placement. In: R. Gabriels & D. Hill (Eds.), Growing Up with Autism: Working with School-age Children and Adolescents. The Guilford Press, New York, 205-227.
• Minassian A, Paulus M, Lincoln A, Perry W. Adults with autism show increased sensitivity to outcomes at low error rates during decision-making. J Autism Dev Disord. 2007 Aug;37(7):1279-88. Epub 2006 Nov 1.
• Quirmbach LM, Lincoln AJ, Feinberg-Gizzo MJ, Ingersoll BR, Andrews SM. Social stories: mechanisms of effectiveness in increasing game play skills in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder using a pretest posttest repeated measures randomized control group design. J Autism Dev Disord. 2009 Feb;39(2):299-321. Epub 2008 Aug 13. PubMed PMID: 18704672.
• Lincoln A, Swift E, Shorteno-Fraser M. Psychological adjustment and treatment of children and families with parents deployed in military combat.J Clin Psychol. 2008 Aug;64(8):984-92.
• Keehn B, Brenner L, Palmer E, Lincoln AJ, Müller RA. Functional brain organization for visual search in ASD. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2008 Nov;14(6):990-1003. PubMed PMID: 18954479.
• Kelly HW, Van Natta ML, Covar RA, Tonascia J, Green RP, Strunk RC; CAMP Research Group. Effect of long-term corticosteroid use on bone mineral density in children: a prospective longitudinal assessment in the childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) study. Pediatrics. 2008 Jul;122(1):e53-61.
• Sharma S, Litonjua AA, Tantisira KG, Fuhlbrigge AL, Szefler SJ, Strunk RC, Zeiger RS, Murphy AJ, Weiss ST; Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group. Clinical predictors and outcomes of consistent bronchodilator response in the childhood asthma management program. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008 Nov;122(5):921-928.e4. Epub 2008 Oct 10. PubMed PMID: 18848350; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2947830. Strunk RC, Sternberg AL, Szefler SJ, Zeiger RS, Bender B, Tonascia J; Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) Research Group. Long-term budesonide or nedocromil treatment, once discontinued, does not alter the course of mild to moderate asthma in children and adolescents. J Pediatr. 2009 May;154(5):682-7.Epub 2009 Jan 23. PubMed PMID: 19167726; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2942076
• Keehn B, Brenner LA, Ramos AI, Lincoln AJ, Marshall SP, Müller RA. Brief report: eye-movement patterns during an embedded figures test in children with ASD. J Autism Dev Disord. 2009 Feb;39(2):383-7. Epub 2008 Jul 1. PubMed PMID: 18592365; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2905648.
• Taylor D, Lincoln AJ, Foster SL. Impaired behavior regulation under conditions of concurrent variable schedules of reinforcement in children with ADHD. J Atten Disord. 2010 Jan;13(4):358-68. Epub . PubMed PMID: 19520999.
• Keehn B, Lincoln AJ, Müller RA, Townsend J. Attentional networks in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2010 Apr 26. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20456535.
• Fishman I, Yam A, Bellugi U, Lincoln A, Mills D. Contrasting patterns of language-associated brain activity in autism and Williams syndrome. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2010 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20802091.
• Cohen RT, Raby BA, Van Steen K, Fuhlbrigge AL, Celedón JC, Rosner BA, Strunk RC, Zeiger RS, Weiss ST; Childhood Asthma Management Program Research Group. In utero smoke exposure and impaired response to inhaled corticosteroids in children with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Sep;126(3):491-7. Epub 2010 Jul 31.PubMed PMID: 20673983; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2937829.

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