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Publications

Learn more about the work that we do in the Gershon laboratory through our 50 most recent publications. For additional background information, see Special Journal Issues under Lifespan Assessments.

  1. Moog NK, Mansolf M, Sherlock P, Adibi JJ, Barrett ES, Entringer S, Ghassabian A, Kerver JM, Meeker JD, Oken E  et al.  Maternal thyroid dysfunction and depressive symptoms during pregnancy and child behavioral and emotional problems - an ECHO multi-cohort investigation.  J Affect Disord  2025 Jul 01;380:475-486. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2025.03.163
  2. Berg AT, Kaat AJ, Paltell K, Kaiser AJE, Nili A, Evans L, Anderson EL, Nesbitt G, Myers LS  Gross Motor Function in Individuals With SCN2A-Related Disorders: The Clinical Trial Readiness Study.  Neurol Clin Pract  2025 Jun;15(3):e200479. pii:e200479
  3. Young SR, Shono Y, Hauner KK, Kim J, Dworak EM, Byrne GJ, Jones CM, Benavente JNY, Wolf MS, Nowinski CJ  Psychometric Properties of MyCog 2.0: A Human-Centered Cognitive Screening Tool for Older Adults.  Int J Methods Psychiatr Res  2025 Jun;34(2):e70020. pii:e70020
  4. Higgins KE, Wingert T, Duggan EW, Mansolf M, Hernandez Carcamo J, Park C  Measuring Well-being Influencers: Development and Validation of the Well-Being Influencers Survey for Healthcare (WISH) Inventory.  Anesthesiology  2025 Jun 01;142(6):1025-1037. doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000005401
  5. Mansolf M  A true score imputation method to account for psychometric measurement error.  Psychol Methods  2025 Jun;30(3):636-659. doi:10.1037/met0000578
  6. Jones MK, Zanzinger K, Grauzer J, Sudec L, Kaat AJ, Roberts MY  Early Communication Intervention for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Toddlers: A Randomized Clinical Trial.  Pediatrics  2025 May 27;. pii:e2024066847
  7. Ho EH, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Ayturk E, Bedjeti K, Weintraub S, Gershon R  NIH Toolbox Cognition Performance in Older Adults with Normal Cognition, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Mild Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type: Results from the ARMADA Study.  Arch Clin Neuropsychol  2025 May 14;. pii:acaf035
  8. Plessen CY, Fischer F, Hartmann C, Liegl G, Schalet B, Kaat AJ, Pesantez R, Joeris A, Heng M, Rose M  et al.  Differential item functioning between English, German, and Spanish PROMIS® physical function ceiling items.  Qual Life Res  2025 May;34(5):1377-1391. doi:10.1007/s11136-024-03866-y
  9. Mlodnicka A, Mansolf M, Chandran A, Aris IM, Calub CA, Ahmad S, Shapiro A, Cochran D, Restrepo B, Schmidt R  et al.  Prediction of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in late childhood from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in early childhood.  Dev Psychopathol  2025 May;37(2):815-824. doi:10.1017/S0954579424000695
  10. Ho EH, Ece B, Tuladhar Z, Zola A, Ewa Kupczyk M, Adair L, Gershon R  Remote Assessment of Pediatric Anthropometrics.  Pediatrics  2025 Apr 01;155(4). pii:e2024067663
  11. Blackwell CK, Mansolf M, Rose T, Pila S, Cella D, Cohen A, Leve LD, McGrath M, Neiderhiser JM, Urquhart A  et al.  Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Study.  J Adolesc Health  2025 Apr;76(4):647-656. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.12.003
  12. Rothrock NE, Drandarov A, Kaat AJ, Mosher H, Prado J, Heng M  Clarifying thresholds for defining levels of physical function and pain interference using bookmarking in orthopaedics.  Qual Life Res  2025 Apr;34(4):1159-1166. doi:10.1007/s11136-024-03881-z
  13. Karpouzian-Rogers T, Dworak EM, Bucko P, Ho EH, Ece B, Mather MA, Novack MA, Pila S, Hosseinian Z, Hall L  et al.  Measures of decision-making ability and functional outcomes in older adults: results from a scoping review in the ARMCADA study.  Front Psychol  2025;16:1540493. pii:1540493
  14. Amagai S, Kaat AJ, Fox RS, Ho EH, Pila S, Kallen MA, Schalet BD, Nowinski CJ, Gershon RC  Customizing Computerized Adaptive Test Stopping Rules for Clinical Settings Using the Negative Affect Subdomain of the NIH Toolbox Emotion Battery: Simulation Study.  JMIR Form Res  2025 Mar 21;9:e60215. pii:e60215
  15. Ho EH, Ece B, Bucko P, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Pila S, Hosseinian Z, Hussein Y, Han SD, Lichtenberg PA, Lim AC  et al.  A scoping review of financial decision-making measures in midlife and beyond: results from the advancing reliable measurement in cognitive aging and decision-making ability (ARMCADA) study.  Front Psychol  2025;16:1540508. pii:1540508
  16. Choi H, Kaat AJ  Measurement Invariance of the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Subscale Between Individuals With Psychiatric and Non-psychiatric Disabilities.  Eval Health Prof  2025 Mar 17;:1632787251327681. doi:10.1177/01632787251327681
  17. Ganiban JM, Blackwell CK, Liu C, Leve L, Neiderhiser J, Mansolf M, Chen Z, Acevedo B, Brennan PA, Bush NR  et al.  Depressive and anxiety symptoms during adolescence: The protective roles of adolescent and family assets within ECHO's diverse national population.  Mental Health Sci  2025 Mar;3(1). pii:e103
  18. Reise SP, Block JM, Mansolf M, Haviland MG, Schalet BD, Kimerling R  Using Projective IRT to Evaluate the Effects of Multidimensionality on Unidimensional IRT Model Parameters.  Multivariate Behav Res  2025;60(2):345-361. doi:10.1080/00273171.2024.2430630
  19. Berg AT, Nili AN, Evans L, Paltell KC, Kaiser AJE, Anderson EL, Egan SM, Kaat AJ, Nesbitt G, Myers LS  Assessing Communication Impairments in a Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorder: The SCN2A Clinical Trials Readiness Study.  Neurol Clin Pract  2025 Feb;15(1):e200391. pii:e200391
  20. Geiger SD, Chandran A, Churchill ML, Mansolf M, Zhang C, Musaad S, Blackwell CK, Eick SM, Goin DE, Korrick S  et al.  Association between maternal stress and child sleep quality: a nationwide ECHO prospective cohort study.  Pediatr Res  2025 Feb;97(3):980-988. doi:10.1038/s41390-024-03542-4
  21. Kaat AJ, Evans L, Nili AN, Paltell K, Kaiser A, Anderson E, Myers LS, Berg AT  Vineland-3 Growth Scale Values: Psychometric Properties for Clinical Trial Readiness in SCN2A.  J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol  2025 Jan 31;. doi:10.1089/cap.2024.0107
  22. Slotkin J, Kaat AJ, Young SR, Dworak EM, Novack MA, Shono Y, Adam H, Nowinski CJ, Pila S, Hosseinian Z  et al.  Mobile Toolbox sequences task: development and validation of a remote, smartphone-based working memory test.  Front Psychol  2024;15:1497816. pii:1497816
  23. Finley JA, Slotkin J, Nowinski CJ, Bedjeti K, Volpe N, Weintraub S, Gershon R  Near vision assessment for adults using the NIH Toolbox.  Front Neurol  2025;16:1533382. pii:1533382
  24. Jutten RJ, Ho EH, Karpouzian-Rogers T, van Hulle C, Carlsson C, Dodge HH, Nowinski CJ, Gershon R, Weintraub S, Rentz DM  Computerized cognitive testing to capture cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease: Longitudinal findings from the ARMADA study.  Alzheimers Dement (Amst)  2025;17(1):e70046. pii:e70046
  25. Rose S, Gergoire A, Pal S, Reader J, Bhaumik A, Slotkin J, Ho E, Nowinski CJ, Persad CC, Maher AC  et al.  Evaluating the factor structure and construct validity of the NIH toolbox in older adults, with a focus on cognitive normalcy and amnestic mild cognitive impairment: considerations for diversity, including insights from persons over 85 years of age and Black older Americans.  J Int Neuropsychol Soc  2025 Jan;31(1):53-58. doi:10.1017/S1355617724000699
  26. Blackwell CK, Cella D, Adair L, Cordero JF, Das SR, Elliott AJ, Hipwell AE, Jacobson LP, Neiderhiser JM, Stanford JB  et al.  Extending the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort through 2030: Rationale and study protocol.  PLoS One  2024;19(12):e0312677. pii:e0312677
  27. Ho EH, Ece B, Novack MA, Pila S, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Mather MA, Dworak EM, Hosseinian Z, Bucko P, Kaat AJ  et al.  Protocol for a multi-domain scoping review to identify measures of decision-making ability in an ageing population.  BMJ Open  2024 Dec 22;14(12):e084178. pii:e084178
  28. Bosquet Enlow M, Blackwell CK, Sherlock P, Mansolf M, Bekelman TA, Blair C, Bush NR, Graff JC, Hockett C, Leve LD  et al.  The influence of early childhood education and care on the relation between early-life social adversity and children's mental health in the environmental influences for Child Health Outcomes Program.  Dev Psychopathol  2024 Dec 10;:1-19. doi:10.1017/S0954579424001822
  29. Feiner H, Sone B, Lee J, Kaat AJ, Roberts MY  Balancing Standardization and Ecological Validity in the Measurement of Social Communication Intervention Outcomes.  J Speech Lang Hear Res  2024 Dec 09;67(12):4799-4810. doi:10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00607
  30. Shono Y, Ece B, Ho EH, Kaat AJ, LaForte EM, Ayturk E, Gershon R  A comparison of scoring algorithms for the NIH Toolbox executive function tasks in a U.S. norming sample.  Psychol Assess  2024 Dec;36(12):760-771. doi:10.1037/pas0001350
  31. Kable JA, Potter AS, Akshoomoff N, Blasco PM, Bodison SC, Ciciolla L, DeGray S, Hulce Z, Kuschner ES, Learnard B  et al.  Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study.  Dev Cogn Neurosci  2024 Dec;70:101461. pii:101461
  32. Mitchell SE, Kallen MA, Troost JP, De La Cruz BA, Bragg A, Martin-Howard J, Moldovan I, Miner JA, Jack BW, Carlozzi NE  Four New Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Examining Health-Seeking Behavior in Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (REDD-CAT): Instrument Development Study.  JMIR Diabetes  2024 Nov 22;9:e63434. pii:e63434
  33. Blackwell CK, Cella D, Mansolf M  Intergenerational transmission of adverse and positive childhood experiences and associations with child well-being.  Child Abuse Negl  2024 Nov;157:107050. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107050
  34. Gershon R, Novack MA, Kaat AJ  The NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox: A new standardized tool for assessing neurodevelopment in children ages 1-42 months.  Child Dev  2024;95(6):2252-2254. doi:10.1111/cdev.14135
  35. Rentz DM, Slotkin J, Kaat AJ, Young SR, Dworak EM, Shono Y, Adam H, Nowinski CJ, Pila S, Novack MA  et al.  Validity and reliability of the Mobile Toolbox Faces and Names memory test.  J Neuropsychol  2024 Sep 17;. doi:10.1111/jnp.12394
  36. Young SR, Dworak EM, Kaat AJ, Adam H, Novack MA, Slotkin J, Stoeger J, Nowinski CJ, Hosseinian Z, Amagai S  et al.  Development and Validation of a Vocabulary Measure in the Mobile Toolbox.  Arch Clin Neuropsychol  2024 Aug 24;39(6):714-723. doi:10.1093/arclin/acae010
  37. Stephen JJ, Carolan P, Krefman AE, Sedaghat S, Mansolf M, Allen NB, Scholtens DM  psHarmonize: Facilitating reproducible large-scale pre-statistical data harmonization and documentation in R.  Patterns (N Y)  2024 Aug 09;5(8):101003. pii:101003
  38. Blackwell CK, Wu G, Chandran A, Arizaga J, Bosquet Enlow M, Brennan PA, Burton P, Bush NR, Cella D, Cummins C  et al.  Longitudinal Changes in Youth Mental Health From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic.  JAMA Netw Open  2024 Aug 01;7(8):e2430198. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.30198
  39. Novack MA, Young SR, Dworak EM, Kaat AJ, Slotkin J, Nowinski C, Yao L, Adam H, Stoeger J, Hosseinian Z  et al.  Mobile toolbox (MTB) remote measures of executive function and processing speed: development and validation.  J Int Neuropsychol Soc  2024 Aug;30(7):680-688. doi:10.1017/S1355617724000225
  40. Grady KL, Kallen MA, Cella D, Allen LA, Lindenfeld J, McIlvennan CK, Beiser DG, Walsh MN, Denfeld QE, Lee CS  et al.  Efficient measurement of multiple ventricular assist device patient-reported outcomes: Creation of a 20-item profile from the MCS A-QOL study.  J Heart Lung Transplant  2024 Aug;43(8):1308-1317. doi:10.1016/j.healun.2024.04.060
  41. Zhang M, Ho E, Nowinski CJ, Fox RS, Ayturk E, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Novack M, Dodge HH, Weintraub S, Gershon R  The Paradox in Positive and Negative Aspects of Emotional Functioning Among Older Adults with Early Stages of Cognitive Impairment.  J Aging Health  2024 Aug;36(7-8):471-483. doi:10.1177/08982643231199806
  42. Mather MA, Ho EH, Bedjeti K, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Rogalski EJ, Gershon R, Weintraub S  Measuring Multidimensional Aspects of Health in the Oldest Old Using the NIH Toolbox: Results From the ARMADA Study.  Arch Clin Neuropsychol  2024 Jul 24;39(5):535-546. doi:10.1093/arclin/acad105
  43. Kersey AJ, Carrazza C, Novack MA, Congdon EL, Wakefield EM, Hemani-Lopez N, Goldin-Meadow S  The effects of gesture and action training on the retention of math equivalence.  Front Psychol  2024;15:1386187. pii:1386187
  44. Congdon EL, Wakefield EM, Novack MA, Hemani-Lopez N, Goldin-Meadow S  Learners' Spontaneous Gesture Before a Math Lesson Predicts the Efficacy of Seeing Versus Doing Gesture During the Lesson.  Cogn Sci  2024 Jul;48(7):e13479. doi:10.1111/cogs.13479
  45. Young SR, Novack MA, Dworak EM, Kaat AJ, Hosseinian Z, Gershon RC  Using the Mobile Toolbox in child and adolescent samples: A feasibility study.  Child Dev  2024;95(4):1416-1424. doi:10.1111/cdev.14066
  46. Dakopolos A, Condy E, Smith E, Harvey D, Kaat AJ, Coleman J, Riley K, Berry-Kravis E, Hessl D  Developmental associations between cognition and adaptive behavior in intellectual and developmental disability.  J Neurodev Disord  2024 Jun 13;16(1):31. pii:31
  47. Fipp-Rosenfield H, Grauzer J, Roberts MY, Kaat AJ  Validity of the multidimensional assessment profile of disruptive behavior in autistic toddlers.  JCPP Adv  2024 Jun;4(2):e12233. pii:e12233
  48. Young SR, Dworak EM, Novack MA, Kaat AJ, Adam H, Nowinski CJ, Hosseinian Z, Slotkin J, Stoeger J, Amagai S  et al.  Development and validation of an episodic memory measure in the Mobile Toolbox (MTB): Arranging Pictures.  J Clin Exp Neuropsychol  2024 May;46(4):364-373. doi:10.1080/13803395.2024.2353945
  49. Farmer C, Kaat AJ, Edwards MC, Lecavalier L  Measurement Invariance in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Research.  Am J Intellect Dev Disabil  2024 May 01;129(3):191-198. doi:10.1352/1944-7558-129.3.191
  50. Hunter SR, Zola A, Ho E, Kallen M, Adjei-Danquah E, Achenbach C, Smith GR, Gershon R, Reed DR, Schalet B  et al.  Using SCENTinel® to predict SARS-CoV-2 infection: insights from a community sample during dominance of Delta and Omicron variants.  Front Public Health  2024;12:1322797. pii:1322797