Leanna Marie Hernandez

Assistant Professor-in-residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles

Publications

  1. Hernandez LM. Mapping the genetic and phenotypic landscape of neonatal C3 and C4 protein concentrations.. Cell genomics, 2023.
  2. Seidlitz J, Mallard TT, Vogel JW, Lee YH, Warrier V, Ball G, Hansson O, Hernandez LM, Mandal AS, Wagstyl K, Lombardo MV, Courchesne E, Glessner JT, Satterthwaite TD, Bethlehem RAI, Bernstock JD, Lifespan Brain Chart Consortium, Tasaki S, Ng B, Gaiteri C, Smoller JW, Ge T, Gur RE, Gandal MJ, Alexander-Bloch AF. The molecular genetic landscape of human brain size variation.. Cell reports, 2023.
  3. Yap CX, Henders AK, Alvares GA, Giles C, Huynh K, Nguyen A, Wallace L, McLaren T, Yang Y, Hernandez LM, Gandal MJ, Hansell NK, Cleary D, Grove R, Hafekost C, Harun A, Holdsworth H, Jellett R, Khan F, Lawson LP, Leslie J, Levis Frenk M, Masi A, Mathew NE, Muniandy M, Nothard M, Miller JL, Nunn L, Strike LT, Cadby G, Moses EK, Busselton Health Study Investigators, de Zubicaray GI, Thompson PM, McMahon KL, Wright MJ, Visscher PM, Dawson PA, Dissanayake C, Eapen V, Heussler HS, Whitehouse AJO, Meikle PJ, Wray NR, Gratten J. Interactions between the lipidome and genetic and environmental factors in autism.. Nature medicine, 2023.
  4. Hernandez LM, Kim M, Zhang P, Bethlehem RAI, Hoftman G, Loughnan R, Smith D, Bookheimer SY, Fan CC, Bearden CE, Thompson WK, Gandal MJ. Multi-ancestry phenome-wide association of complement component 4 variation with psychiatric and brain phenotypes in youth.. Genome biology, 2023.
  5. Hernandez LM. Sex-Differential Neuroanatomy in Autism: A Shift Toward Male-Characteristic Brain Structure.. The American journal of psychiatry, 2023.
  6. Lawrence KE, Abaryan Z, Laltoo E, Hernandez LM, Gandal MJ, McCracken JT, Thompson PM. White matter microstructure shows sex differences in late childhood: Evidence from 6797 children.. Human brain mapping, 2022.
  7. Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Fuster E, Padgaonkar NT, Patterson G, Jung J, Okada NJ, Lowe JK, Hoekstra JN, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, McPartland JC, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Green SA, Bookheimer SY, Geschwind DH, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium. Impact of autism genetic risk on brain connectivity: a mechanism for the female protective effect.. Brain : a journal of neurology, 2022.
  8. Hernandez LM, Kim M, Hernandez C, Thompson W, Fan CC, Galván A, Dapretto M, Bookheimer SY, Fuligni A, Gandal MJ. Decoupling Sleep and Brain Size in Childhood: An Investigation of Genetic Covariation in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.. Biological psychiatry global open science, 2022.
  9. Kim M, Haney JR, Zhang P, Hernandez LM, Wang LK, Perez-Cano L, Loohuis LMO, de la Torre-Ubieta L, Gandal MJ. Brain gene co-expression networks link complement signaling with convergent synaptic pathology in schizophrenia.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
  10. Cummings KK, Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Wood ET, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, Green SA. Sex Differences in Salience Network Connectivity and its Relationship to Sensory Over-Responsivity in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2020.
  11. Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Bowman HC, Padgaonkar NT, Fuster E, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, Geschwind DH, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Green SA, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium. Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity of the Salience, Default Mode, and Central Executive Networks in Youth with ASD.. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2020.
  12. Hernandez LM, Kim M, Hoftman GD, Haney JR, de la Torre-Ubieta L, Pasaniuc B, Gandal MJ. Transcriptomic Insight Into the Polygenic Mechanisms Underlying Psychiatric Disorders.. Biological psychiatry, 2020.
  13. Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Eilbott J, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, Geschwind DH, McPartland JC, Nelson CA, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium. Neural responsivity to social rewards in autistic female youth.. Translational psychiatry, 2020.
  14. Hernandez LM, Green SA, Lawrence KE, Inada M, Liu J, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Social Attention in Autism: Neural Sensitivity to Speech Over Background Noise Predicts Encoding of Social Information.. Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020.
  15. Bielczyk NZ, Ando A, Badhwar A, Caldinelli C, Gao M, Haugg A, Hernandez LM, Ito KL, Kessler D, Lurie D, Makary MM, Nikolaidis A, Veldsman M, Allen C, Bankston A, Bottenhorn KL, Braukmann R, Calhoun V, Cheplygina V, Boffino CC, Ercan E, Finc K, Foo H, Khatibi A, La C, Mehler DMA, Narayanan S, Poldrack RA, Raamana PR, Salo T, Godard-Sebillotte C, Uddin LQ, Valeriani D, Valk SL, Walton CC, Ward PGD, Yanes JA, Zhou X, OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group. Effective Self-Management for Early Career Researchers in the Natural and Life Sciences.. Neuron, 2020.
  16. Hernandez LM, Lawrence KE, Padgaonkar NT, Inada M, Hoekstra JN, Lowe JK, Eilbott J, Jack A, Aylward E, Gaab N, Van Horn JD, Bernier RA, McPartland JC, Webb SJ, Pelphrey KA, Green SA, Geschwind DH, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M, GENDAAR Consortium. Imaging-genetics of sex differences in ASD: distinct effects of OXTR variants on brain connectivity.. Translational psychiatry, 2020.
  17. Green SA, Hernandez L, Lawrence KE, Liu J, Tsang T, Yeargin J, Cummings K, Laugeson E, Dapretto M, Bookheimer SY. Distinct Patterns of Neural Habituation and Generalization in Children and Adolescents With Autism With Low and High Sensory Overresponsivity.. The American journal of psychiatry, 2019.
  18. Vijayakumar N, Pfeifer JH, Flournoy JC, Hernandez LM, Dapretto M. Affective reactivity during adolescence: Associations with age, puberty and testosterone.. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2019.
  19. Lawrence KE, Hernandez LM, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Atypical longitudinal development of functional connectivity in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2018.
  20. Sherman LE, Hernandez LM, Greenfield PM, Dapretto M. What the brain 'Likes': neural correlates of providing feedback on social media.. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2018.
  21. Sherman LE, Greenfield PM, Hernandez LM, Dapretto M. Peer Influence Via Instagram: Effects on Brain and Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.. Child development, 2017.
  22. Green SA, Hernandez LM, Bowman HC, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Sensory over-responsivity and social cognition in ASD: Effects of aversive sensory stimuli and attentional modulation on neural responses to social cues.. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2017.
  23. Green SA, Hernandez L, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Reduced modulation of thalamocortical connectivity during exposure to sensory stimuli in ASD.. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 2016.
  24. Sherman LE, Payton AA, Hernandez LM, Greenfield PM, Dapretto M. The Power of the Like in Adolescence: Effects of Peer Influence on Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Media.. Psychological science, 2016.
  25. Green SA, Hernandez L, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Salience Network Connectivity in Autism Is Related to Brain and Behavioral Markers of Sensory Overresponsivity.. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2016.
  26. Green SA, Hernandez L, Tottenham N, Krasileva K, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Neurobiology of Sensory Overresponsivity in Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorders.. JAMA psychiatry, 2015.
  27. Jann K, Hernandez LM, Beck-Pancer D, McCarron R, Smith RX, Dapretto M, Wang DJ. Altered resting perfusion and functional connectivity of default mode network in youth with autism spectrum disorder.. Brain and behavior, 2015.
  28. Hernandez LM, Rudie JD, Green SA, Bookheimer S, Dapretto M. Neural signatures of autism spectrum disorders: insights into brain network dynamics.. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2014.
  29. Moses P, Hernandez LM, Orient E. Age-related differences in cerebral blood flow underlie the BOLD fMRI signal in childhood.. Frontiers in psychology, 2014.
  30. Green SA, Rudie JD, Colich NL, Wood JJ, Shirinyan D, Hernandez L, Tottenham N, Dapretto M, Bookheimer SY. Overreactive brain responses to sensory stimuli in youth with autism spectrum disorders.. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2013.
  31. Pfeifer JH, Merchant JS, Colich NL, Hernandez LM, Rudie JD, Dapretto M. Neural and behavioral responses during self-evaluative processes differ in youth with and without autism.. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2013.
  32. Rudie JD, Hernandez LM, Brown JA, Beck-Pancer D, Colich NL, Gorrindo P, Thompson PM, Geschwind DH, Bookheimer SY, Levitt P, Dapretto M. Autism-associated promoter variant in MET impacts functional and structural brain networks.. Neuron, 2012.
  33. Colich NL, Wang AT, Rudie JD, Hernandez LM, Bookheimer SY, Dapretto M. Atypical Neural Processing of Ironic and Sincere Remarks in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders.. Metaphor and symbol, 2012.
  34. Rudie JD, Shehzad Z, Hernandez LM, Colich NL, Bookheimer SY, Iacoboni M, Dapretto M. Reduced functional integration and segregation of distributed neural systems underlying social and emotional information processing in autism spectrum disorders.. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2011.