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New! Letter to Editor of New York Times on Narrowing the Definition of Autism, January 27, 2012.

SCIENTIFIC REVIEW PAPERS
1. Herbert MR. Autism: A Brain disorder or a disorder that affects the brain? Clinical Neuropsychiatry 2005; 2(6):354-79.

2. Herbert MR, Ziegler DA. Volumetric Neuroimaging and Low-Dose Early-Life exposures: Loose Coupling of Pathogenesis-Brain-Behavior Links. Neurotoxicology 2005; 26(4):565-72.

3. Herbert MR. Large brains in autism: the challenge of pervasive abnormality. Neuroscientist 2005; 11(5 ):417-40.

4. Herbert MR, Russo JP, Yang S et al. Autism and environmental genomics. Neurotoxicology 2006; 27(5):671-84.

5. Herbert MR. Neuroimaging in disorders of social and emotional functioning: what is the question? J Child Neurol 2004; 19(10):772-84.

6. Herbert MR. Autism. chapter in: Gilman S. Neurobiology of Disease (textbook). Elsevier, 2006.

7. Herbert MR, Caviness V. Neuroanatomy and Imaging Studies. in: Tuchman R, Rapin I eds. Autism: A neurobiological disorder of early brain development. Mac Keith Press, 2006: Chapter 8 pp. 115-140.

8. Anderson MP, Hooker BS, Herbert MR. Bridging from Cells to Cognition in Autism Pathophysiology: Biological Pathways to Defective Brain Function and Plasticity. Am J Biochem Biotech 2008; 4(2):167-176 . http://www.scipub.org/fulltext/ajbb/ajbb42167-176.pdf. Published as part of online issue on autism, http://www.scipub.org/scipub/detail_issue.php?V_No=173&j_id=ajbb.

9. Herbert, M.R., Anderson, M.P An Expanding Spectrum of Autism Models: From Fixed Developmental Defects to Reversible Functional Impairments Humana Press 2008 Autism: Current Theories and Evidence, pp. 429-463

10. Helt M, Kelley E, Kinsbourne M, Pandy J, Boorstein H, Herbert MR, Fein D. Can children with autism recover? If so, how? Neuropsychol Rev. 2008 Dec; 18(4): 339-66.

11. Herbert, M.R. Autism: The centrality of active pathophysiology and the shift from static to chronic dynamic encephalopathy Taylor & Francis / CRC Press 2009 Autism: Oxidative stress, inflammation and immune abnormalities, pp. 343-387

12. Herbert M.R. Contributions of the environment and environmentally vulnerable physiology to autism spectrum disorders 2010 20087183 Curr Opin Neurol 103-10. PMID: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20087183\

13. Herbert, M.R. Environment and vulnerable physiology in autism. Supplement to European Neuropsychopharmacology (ENP), S.09.02, p. S177.

14. Herbert, M.R., Neuroanatomy in Autism. The Neuropsychology of Autism. Fein, D., ed. Oxford University Press (2011).

15. Herbert, M.R., A Whole Body Systems Approach to Autism. The Neuropsychology of Autism. Fein, D., ed. Oxford University Press (2011).

16. Corrales, M., Herbert M.R., Autism and Environmental Genomics: Synergistic systems approaches to autism complexity. Invited, in press. Autism Spectrum Disorders (textbook). Amaral D, Dawson G, Geschwind D, editors. Oxford University Press (2011).

17. Herbert, M.R.,  SHANK3, the Synapse, and Autism. New England Journal of Medicine (Clinical Implications of Basic Research), 365:2. July 14, 2011, pp. 173-175.

TECHNICAL PAPERS
1. Herbert, M.R., D.A. Ziegler, C.K. Deutsch, L.M. O’brien, D.N. Kennedy, P.A. Filipek, A.I. Bakardjiev, J. Hodgson, M. Takeoka, N. Makris, and V.S. Caviness Jr. 2005. Brain asymmetries in autism and developmental language disorder a nested whole-brain analysis. Brain 128213-26

2. Herbert, M.R., D.A. Ziegler, N. Makris, P.A. Filipek, T.L. Kemper, J.J. Normandin, H.A. Sanders, D.N. Kennedy, and V.S. Caviness Jr. 2004. Localization of white matter volume increase in autism and developmental language disorder. Ann Neurol 55530-40

3. Herbert, M.R., D.A. Ziegler, N. Makris, A. Bakardjiev, J. Hodgson, K.T. Adrien, D.N. Kennedy, P.A. Filipek, and V.S. Caviness. 2003. Larger Brain and White Matter Volumes in Children With Developmental Language Disorder. Developmental Science 6F11-F22

4. Herbert, M.R., D.A. Ziegler, C.K. Deutsch, L.M. O’Brien, N. Lange, A. Bakardjiev, J. Hodgson, K.T. Adrien, S. Steele, N. Makris, D. Kennedy, G.J. Harris, and V.S. Caviness. 2003. Dissociations of cerebral cortex, subcortical and cerebral white matter volumes in autistic boys. Brain 1261182-1192.

5. Herbert MR, Harris GJ, Adrien KT et al. Abnormal asymmetry in language association cortex in autism. Ann Neurol 2002; 52(5):588-96.

6. Granpeesheh, D., Tarbox,J., Dixon, D.R., Carr, E., and Herbert, M.R. Retrospective analysis of clinical records in 38 cases of recovery from autism 2009 19917210 Ann Clin Psychiatry 195-204 PMID: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19917210

7. Isler, J.R., Martien, K.M., Grieve, P.G., Stark, R.I., Herbert, M.R. Reduced functional connectivity in visual evoked potentials in children with autism spectrum disorder. Clin Neurophysiol. Epub 2010 June PMID: 20605520

SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS FOR THE PUBLIC
‘Autism, Health, and the Environment,’ San Francisco Medicine. Nov/Dec 2005

‘Time To Get a Grip,’ Autism Advocate. January 2007

‘Learning from the autism catastrophe: Key leverage points.’ Guest editorial, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Nov/Dec 2008, vol 14, no 6., pp. 28-30

‘Integrating Behavioral and Biomedical Approaches: A marriage made in heaven’ by Edward G. Carr, Ph.D.l and Martha R. Herbert, M.D., Ph.D., Autism Advocate, First edition, 2008

NEWS COVERAGE and PRINTED INTERVIEWS
Autism: A brain disorder or a disorder that affects the brain? Teri Arranga interviews Martha Herbert. Medical Veritas 3 (2006) 1182–1194

‘Autism-It’s Not Just In the Head,’ by Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, April 2007

TRANSCENDing the Gaps in Autism Research, Interview by Frank Lampe and Suzanne Snyder, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Nov/Dec 2007, Vol 13, No. 6