ORIGINAL, PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH

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Sarawgi, S., Kang, S., Schmitt, L., Reisinger, D.L., Ruberg, J., Shaffer, R.C., (accepted). Regulating Together: Perspectives on Improving Emotion Regulation in Autistic Youth. Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Thibodaux, L. K., Reisinger, D. L., Wikel, K., Fodstad, J. C., & Curtin, M. (2025). How a hospital-based school program can support children with cystic fibrosis. Discover Public Health, 22(1), 162. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-025-00541-6.

Ormiston, H., Husmann, P., Wikel, K., Reisinger, D.L., & Curtin, M. (2025). Educational Services and School Reintegration Supports for Youth After Acute Behavioral Health Unit Hospitalization. Continuity in Education, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/cie.178. PMID: 41179927

Kang, S., Stepanek, M., Reisinger, D.L., Schmitt, L.M., Kennedy, M., Loar, J., Shaffer, R.C. (in press). Regulating Together in Schools: A School-Based Intervention to Enhance Emotion Regulation in Autistic Youth. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2025.2537133.

McKinney, W.S., Schmitt, L.M., De Stefano, L.A., Ethridge, L., Norris, J.E., Horn, P.S., Dauterman, S., Rosselot, H., Pedapati, E.V., Reisinger, D.L., Dominick, K.C., Shaffer, R.C., Chin, D., Friedman, N., Hong, M., Sweeney, J.A., & Erickson, C.A. (2025). Results from a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, single-dose, crossover trial of lovastatin or minocycline in fragile X syndrome. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 35(4), 211–221. https://doi.org/10.1089/cap.2024.0103. PMID: 39651602.

Thibodaux, L. K., Orr, A. L., Reisinger, D. L., Fodstad, J., Xu, G., Wikel, K., & Curtin, M. (2024). A pilot study of the utility of a hospital-based school program for pediatric patients with cardiac diagnoses. Frontiers in pediatrics, 12, 1502378. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2024.1502378. PMID: 39722768

Nelson, M.A., Schmitt, L.M., Horn, P.S., Berry-Kravis, E., Hessel, D., Shaffer, R.S., Carpenter, R., Budimirovic, D.B., Wang, P., Reisinger, D.L., Walton-Brown, K., Erickson, C.A. (2024). Parent-Report Outcome Measures for Individuals with Fragile X Syndrome: Clinically Meaningful Change Thresholds. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06634-6. PMID: 39579284. 

Coffman, M., Wells, M., Schmitt, L. M., Reisinger, D.L., Horn, P., & Shaffer, R. (2024). Telehealth regulating together pilot trial: emotion regulation intervention for autistic children and adolescents. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1401148. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1401148. PMID: 39435131.

Reisinger, D.L., Goodwin, M.S., Horn, P.S., Schmitt, L.M., Coffman, M.C., Shaffer, R.C. (2024). Examining the feasibility and utility of heart rate variability on intervention outcomes targeting emotion regulation in autism: a brief report. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15409. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66084-z. PMID: 38965387

Ormiston, H. E., Husmann, P. R., Wikel, K. C., Ruark, C., Reisinger, D. L., & Curtin, M. J. (2024). An Exploratory Study of Educators’ Perspectives Towards Hospital School Program Support for Children with Special Health Care Needs After Hospitalization. Continuity in Education, 5(1), 31–49. https://doi.org/10.5334/cie.110. PMID: 38774599

Nelson, M. A., Shaffer, R. C., Schmitt, L. M., Coffman, M. C., Horn, P. S., Reisinger, D. L., & Erickson, C. A. (2023). Health Related Quality of Life in Autistic Youth and Their Families. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 10.1007/s10803-023-06054-y. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06054-y. PMID: 37642877

Rodríguez, G.M., Wikel, K., Stefani, K.M., Gilbert, E.A., Reisinger, D.L. & Curtin, M. (2023). Hospitalized Patients’ Education Needs: Review of a Hospital-Based School Program. Clinical Pediatrics, 63(2), 239–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/00099228231181580. PMID: 37326066 

Reisinger, D.L., Hines. E., Raches, C., Tang, Q., James, C., and McNally Keehn, R. (2022). Provider and caregiver satisfaction with telehealth evaluation of autism spectrum disorder in young children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(12), 5099–5113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05576-1. PMID: 35579789

• Selected by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to be included in the 2022 Summary of Advances In Autism Research highlighting the top 20 notable autism research articles from 2022 (https://iacc.hhs.gov/publications/summary-of-advances/2022/).  

Wink, L.K., Reisinger, D. L., Horn, P., Shaffer, R., O’Brien, K., Schmitt, L., Pedapati, E.V., Dominick, K., Erickson, C.A., (2020). Brief Report: Intranasal ketamine in adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder—Initial results of a randomized, controlled, crossover, pilot study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(4), 1392–1399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04542-z. PMID: 32642957

Shaffer, R.C., Schmitt, L., Reisinger, D.L., Coffman, M., Horn, P., Goodwin, M., Mazefsky, C., Randall, S., Erickson, C.A., (2022) Regulating Together: Emotion dysregulation group treatment for ASD youth and their caregivers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53(5), 1942–1962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05461-x. PMID: 35141815

Reisinger, D. L., Shaffer, R. C., Tartaglia, N., Berry-Kravis, E., Erickson, & C. A. (2020) Delineating repetitive behavior profiles across the lifespan in fragile X syndrome. Brain Sciences, 10(4), 239. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10040239. PMID: 32316611

Reisinger, D. L., Shaffer, R. C., Horn, P. S., Hong, M. P., Pedapati, E. V., Dominick, K. C., & Erickson, C. A. (2020). Atypical social attention and emotional face processing in autism spectrum disorder: insights from face scanning and pupillometry. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, 76. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2019.00076. PMID: 32116580

Reisinger, D. L., Shaffer, R. C., Pedapati, E. V., Dominick, K. C., & Erickson, C. A. (2019). A Pilot Quantitative Evaluation of Early Life Language Development in Fragile X Syndrome. Brain sciences, 9(2), 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9020027. PMID: 30699903

Brewe, A. M., Reisinger, D. L., Adlof, S. M., & Roberts, J. E. (2018). Initiating joint attention use in infants at high-risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of intellectual disability research, 62(10), 842–853. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12539. PMID: 30155926

Tonnsen, B., Scherr, J., Reisinger, D., & Roberts, J. (2017). Behavioral markers of emergent stranger anxiety in infants and toddlers with fragile X syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(11), 3646–3658. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3270-6. PMID: 28856552

​Reisinger, D. L., & Roberts, J. E. (2017). Differential relationships of anxiety and autism symptoms on social skills in young boys with fragile X syndrome. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 122(5), 359–373. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-122.5.359. PMID: 28846036

Lawson, T. J, Reisinger, D. L., & Fleming, M. J., (2012). Undergraduate psychology courses preferred by graduate programs. Teaching of Psychology, 39(3), 181-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628312450430.

​BOOK CHAPTERS, REVIEWS, CASE REPORTS, GUIDELINES (PEER REVIEWED)

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Citarella, J., Siekierski, P., Ethridge, L., Westerkamp, G., Liu, Y., Blank, E., Voorhees, L., Batterink, L., Jones, S., Smith, E., Reisinger, D.L., Nelson, M., Binder, D., Razak, K., Miyakoshi, M., Wu, S., Gilbert, D., Horn, P.S., De Stefano, L.A., Erickson, C.A., & Pedapati, E. V. (2025). FX ENTRAIN: scientific context, study design, and biomarker driven brain-computer interfaces in neurodevelopmental conditions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19, 1618804. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1618804. PMID: 40995144

McKinney, W. S., Tadevich, L. J., Schmitt, L. M., Horn, P. S., Ruberg, J. R., White, S. W., Reisinger, D. L., Burkett, K. W., Sarawgi, S., Kang, S., & Shaffer, R. C. (2025). Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Regulating Together (RT), a group therapy for emotion dysregulation in school-age autistic youth and their caregivers. BMC psychology, 13(1), 436. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02737-6. PMID: 40275407.

Shaffer, R.C., †Reisinger, D.L., Schmitt, L., Lamy, M., Dominick, K., Smith, E., Coffman, M., Esbensen, A., (2022). Systematic review of emotion dysregulation in syndromic causes of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(5), 518–557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.06.020. PMID: 36007813

*Reisinger, D. L., Kaufmann, W.E., Erickson, C.A. (2022). Overview of syndromic causes of autism and commonalities in neurobiological pathways. In E. Hollander, R.J. Hagerman, & C.J. Ferretti (Eds), Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Second Edition

†Indicates co-first authorship