Research

Presentations

Phillips, R.D., Walsh, E.C., Cernasov, P.M., Kinard, J.L., Kan, D., Scott, M., Freeman, L., Pfister, C., Gibson, K., Pisoni, A., Kelley, L., Nagy, G., Campbell, D., West, J., Smoski, M.J., Dichter, G.S. (April 2021). Concurrent reduction in anhedonia severity and self-reported stress following psychotherapy treatment for transdiagnostic anhedonia. E-poster presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (SOBP), Virtual Meeting.

Gibson, K., Cernasov, P.M., Walsh, E.C., Kinard, J.L., Kelley, L., Phillips, R.D., Pfister, C., Scott, M., Freeman, L., Pisoni, A., Nagy, G., Oliver, J., Treadway, M., Smoski, M.J, Dichter, G.S. (April 2021).  Relations Between Subcortical Volumes, Anhedonia Severity, And Reward-Oriented Behaviors in An Anhedonic Transdiagnostic Sample. E-poster presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (SOBP), Virtual Meeting.  

Kinard, J.L. (February 2021). Strategies for promoting early communication skills. Live virtual presentation, Advancing Skills and Knowledge (ASK) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Slides available at:

https://www.jessicakinard.com/single-post/ask-2021-conference-strategies-for-promoting-early-communication-skills

Phillips, R.D., Zürcher, N.R., Walsh, E.C., Cernasov, P.M., Tseng, C., Dharanikota, A., Smith, E., Li, Z., Kinard, J.L., Bizzell, J., Greene, R.K., Freeman, L., Kan, D., Scott, M., Pfister, C., Dillon, D.G., Pizzagalli, D.A., Izquierdo-Garcia, D., Lalush, D., Hooker, J.M., Dichter, G.S. (December 2020). A simultaneous [11C]raclopride Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging investigation of striatal dopamine binding in autism. E-poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), Virtual Meeting.

Pisoni, A., Arnold, M., Kinard, J., Cernasov, P., Phillips, R., Kan, D., Scott, M., Freeman, L., Pfister, C., Kelley, L., Haworth, K., Nagy, G., Oliver, J.A., Walsh, E., Daughters, S., Dichter, G. S, Smoski, M.J. (November 2020). EMA predictors of treatment response in anhedonia. Poster to be presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Walsh, E.C., Cernasov, P., Eisenlohr-Moul, T., Kinard, J.L., Kelley, L., Pisoni, A., Arnold, M., Phillips, R., Zerubavel, N., Smoski, M.J., & Dichter, G.S. (May 2020). Pretreatment functional connectivity between amygdala-occipital cortex predicts psychotherapy response in a transdiagnostic anhedonic sample. E-poster accepted to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (SOBP), New York, NY. (Conference canceled)

Phillips, R.D., Arnold, M., Pisoni, A., Cernasov, P., Kinard, J., Kan, D., Scott, M., Freeman, L., Pfister, C., Kelley, L., Haworth, K., Nagy, G., Oliver, J., Walsh, E., Pizzagalli, D.A., Smoski, M., Dichter, G. S. (May 2020). Behavioral activation treatment improves reward responsiveness on a probabilistic reward task in a transdiagnostic anhedonic sample. E-poster accepted to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (SOBP), New York, NY. (Conference canceled)

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Kinard, J. (March 2020). Strategies for promoting early communication skills. Oral presentation, Advancing Skills and Knowledge (ASK) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. (Conference canceled)

Cernasov, P., Kinard, J., Phillips, R., Halverson, T., Greene, R., Arnold, M., Lowery, S., Luke, S., Kelley, L., McLamb, M., Pisoni, A., Haworth, K., Nagy, G., Oliver, J., Walsh, E., Smoski, M., Dichter, G. S. (May 2020). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy attenuates default-mode network connectivity in patients with clinically significant anhedonia. Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, New York, NY

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Arnold, M., Nagy, G.A., Haworth, K., Cernasov, P., Kinard, J., Walsh, E., Dichter, G., & Smoski, M. (November 2019). Characterizing an anhedonic sample in a transdiagnostic treatment study. Poster presentation, 53rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies,

Atlanta, GA.

Cernasov, P., Greene, R., Kinard, J., Halverson, T., Lowery, S., McLamb, M., Choi, D., Cruz, M., Armel, K., Arnold, M., Luke, S., Pisoni, A., Kelly, L., Walsh, E., Smoski, M., Dichter, G. S. (May 2019). Attenuated default mode network functional connectivity is associated with improvement in depressive symptoms following mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in a transdiagnostic anhedonic sample. Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, Chicago, IL. 

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Kinard, J.L. (February 2019). Children with disabilities from culturally & linguistically diverse families. Oral presentation, Advancing Skills and Knowledge (ASK) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Kinard, J.L. (October 2018). La intervención de comunicación y lenguaje para los niños en las primeras etapas de desarrollo de la comunicación/Communication and language intervention for children in the first stages of communication development. Session 6, Series B of the Attention to Autism Spectrum Disorder Training Videos, Chapel Hill, NC.

Available at: http://raft.unige.ch/dudal-html5/dudal.html?coursePath=3893

Greene, R.K., Zheng S., Mosner M.G., Kennedy D.P., & Dichter, G.S. (April 2018). Social and nonsocial visual outcome prediction errors in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Poster session, Gatlinburg Conference, San Diego, CA.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322992406_Social_and_nonsocial_visual_outcome_prediction_errors_in_autism_spectrum_disorder_ASD

Kinard, J.L. (February 2018). Children with disabilities from culturally & linguistically diverse families. Oral presentation, Advancing Skills and Knowledge (ASK) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Kinard, J.L. (November 2017). What we know about bilingualism in autism spectrum disorder. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321170450_What_We_Know_about_Bilingualism_in_Autism_Spectrum_Disorder

Kinard, J.L., Addicott, M., Mosner, M., Barr, N., & Dichter, G.S. (May 2017). Neural mechanisms of social and object prediction errors in adolescents with ASD. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, San Francisco, CA.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322992416_Neural_Mechanisms_of_Prediction_Errors_in_Adolescents_with_ASD

Mosner, M.G., Kinard, J.L., McWeeny, S., Shah, J.S., Damiano, C.R., Burchinal, M.R., Rutherford, J.V., Greene, R.G., Treadway, M.T., & Dichter, G.S. (May 2017) Vicarious effort-based decision-making in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, San Francisco, CA.

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Greene, R.K., Sullivan, M., Brodkin, E.S., Pallathra, A.A., Kinard, J.L., Mosner, M.G., Parish-Morris, J., Schultz, R.T., and Dichter, G.S. (May 2017). Dynamic eyetracking as a measure of treatment response for an ASD social skills intervention. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, San Francisco, CA.

Kinard, J.L. (April 2017). Cultural and linguistic diversity in autism spectrum disorder. Oral presentation, T32 Postdoctoral Seminar at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Chapel Hill, NC.

Crais, E.R., Kinard, J.L., Uzonyi, T., & Amsbary, J. (February 2017). Developmental monitoring and early screening: Your role in identifying children with disabilities and autism. Oral presentation, Advancing Skills and Knowledge (ASK) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Kinard, J.L., Sideris, J., Watson, L.R., Baranek, G.T., Crais, E.R., Wakeford, L., & Turner-Brown, L. (May 2016). Predictors of parent responsiveness to one-year-olds at-risk for ASD. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, Baltimore, MD.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303302792_Predictors_of_parent_responsiveness_to_one-year-olds_at-risk_for_autism

Mosner, M. G., Kinard, J.L., McWeeny, S., Damiano, C.R., Burchinal, M.R., Rutherford, H.J.V., Treadway, M.T., & Dichter, G.S. (May 2016). Effort-based decision-making in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, Baltimore, MD.

Damiano, C.R., Hanna, E., Cockrell, D., Dunlap, K.L., Miller, S., Kovac, M.L., Turner-Brown, L., Kinard, J.L., & Dichter, G.S., (May 2016). Neural mechanisms of uncertainty processing in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research. Baltimore, MD.  

Jung, H., Mosner, M. G., McLaurin, R. E., Hakimi, S., Parelman, J. M., Chakraborty, P., Dichter, G., Carter, R. M. (May 2016). Co-opted social cognitive neural substrates in autism during strategic gameplay. Poster presentation, the 71st Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of Society of Biological Psychiatry, Atlanta, GA.
 

Kinard, J.L., Watson, L.R., Baranek, G.T., Crais, E.R., Turner-Brown, L., Wakeford, L., & Sideris, J. (November 2015). Predictors of parent responsiveness to one-year-olds at risk for autism. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Denver, CO.

Kinard, J.L., and Watson, L.R. (May 2015). Parent-mediated intervention for Hispanic families of young children with autism. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281098267_Parent-mediated_intervention_for_Spanish-speaking_families_of_toddlers_and_preschoolers_with_autism

Watson, L.R., Crais, E.R., Baranek, G., Turner-Brown, L., Sideris, J., Reznick, J.S., Wakeford, L., Kinard, J.L., & Martin, K.L. (May 2015). Efficacy of Adapted Responsive Teaching in a community sample of one-year-olds at-risk for ASD. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, Salt Lake City, UT.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286451891_Efficacy_of_a_Parent-Mediated_Intervention_for_One-Year-Olds_at-Risk_for_ASD

Kinard, J.L., and Watson, L.R. (November 2014). Parent-mediated intervention for Spanish-speaking families of toddlers and preschoolers with autism. Oral presentation, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Orlando, FL.

Kinard, J.L. (June 2014). Enseñanza Sensible Adaptada [Adapted Responsive Teaching]. Oral presentation, North Carolina Partners for the Americas Convention, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Kinard, J.L., and Crais, E.R. (November 2013). Use of family-centered principles with culturally and linguistically diverse families. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL.

Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281098477_Use_of_family-centered_principles_with_culturally_and_linguistically_diverse_families

Kinard, J.L. (February 2013). Language and play skills in early childhood: Typical development, red flags, and useful activities. Oral presentation, Advancing Skills and Knowledge (ASK) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Kinard, J.L., Clark, C., Beck, M., & Watson, L.R. (November 2012). Measuring parent responsiveness to toddlers at-risk for autism. Poster presentation, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.

Kinard, J.L., & Dykstra, J. (November 2012). Language development in early childhood. Oral presentation, Durham’s Early Childhood Faith Initiative, Durham, NC.

Kinard, J.L., Wilson, K., Horvath, S., Grisnik, J., Boyd, B., Watson, L. (May 2011). Development of a fidelity of implementation tool for a school-based intervention. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.

Dykstra, J., Christian, L., Pearson, S., Kinard, J.L., Watson, L.R., & Boyd, B. (May 2011). The development of a coding system for social-communication behaviors for the ADOS. Poster presentation, International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.

Cobble (Kinard), J.L. (April 2008). Child abuse and neglect: Signs, outcomes, and implications for speech-language pathologists. Poster presentation, North Carolina Speech Hearing and Language Association, Asheville, NC.