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Scientist, author: neuroscience, neurodevelopmental disorders, rare diseases, genetics, connective tissue disorders

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Technical Writing, Newswriting
Research Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review
Work Experience

Research Assistant Professor

University of South Carolina

February 2019 - Present

LEND Postdoctoral Fellow

University of South Carolina

June 2015 - Present

Education

Research Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of South Carolina

July 2016 - January 2019

LEND Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of South Carolina

June 2015 - June 2016

PhD (Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology)

University of Louisville

August 2009 - May 2014

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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
(2020). The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders . Journal of Personalized Medicine. 10. (4). p. 260. {MDPI} {AG}
(2020). The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders . Journal of Personalized Medicine.
(2020). The Developmental Gene Hypothesis for Punctuated Equilibrium: Combined Roles of Developmental Regulatory Genes and Transposable Elements . BioEssays. p. 1900173. Wiley
(2019). Autism risk genes are evolutionarily ancient and maintain a unique feature landscape that echoes their function . Autism Research. Wiley
(2018). A Cohort Study Comparing Women with Autism Spectrum Disorder with and without Generalized Joint Hypermobility . Behavioral Sciences.
Sokhadze, G. E., Casanova, M. F., Kelly, D. P., Casanova, E. L., Russell, B., Sokhadze, E. M. (2017). Neuromodulation based on rTMS affects behavioral measures and autonomic nervous system activity in children with autism. Neuroregulation, 4, 65-78 .
Sokhadze, E. M., Casanova, M. F., Casanova, E., Lamina, E., Kelly, D. P., Khachidze, I. (2017). Event-related potentials (ERP) in cognitive neuroscience research and applications. Neuroregulation, 4, 14-27 .
Sokhadze, E. M., Lamina, E. V., Casanova, E. L., Kelly, D. P., Opris, I., Khachidze, I., & Casanova, M. F. (2017). Atypical processing of novel distracters in a visual oddball task in autism spectrum disorder. Behavioral Sciences, 7, 79 .
Casanova, E. L. (2017). Links between patterns of embryonic spinal cord development and schizophrenia risk. Biological Psychiatry, 82, e21-e22 .
(2016). Genes with high penetrance for syndromic and non-syndromic autism typically function within the nucleus and regulate gene expression . Molecular Autism. 7. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Casanova, M. F., Casanova, E. L., Sokhadze, E. M. (2016). Leo Kanner, the Anti-psychiatry Movement and Neurodiversity. Siberian Journal of Special Education, 1-2(16-17), 6-9 .
(2016). Up-Regulation of Oligodendrocyte Lineage Markers in the Cerebellum of Autistic Patients: Evidence from Network Analysis of Gene Expression . Molecular Neurobiology.
(2014). Genetics studies indicate that neural induction and early neuronal maturation are disturbed in autism . Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience.
(2013). Reassessment of teratogenic risk from antenatal ultrasound . Translational Neuroscience.
Emily L. Williams (2013). Transposable elements occur more frequently in autism-risk genes: Implications for the role of genomic instability in autism . Translational Neuroscience.
Sokhadze, E., Baruth, J., Sears, L., Sokhadze, G. E., El-Baz, A., Williams, E., Klapheke, R., & Casanova, M. F. (2012). Event-related potential study of attention regulation during illusory figure categorization task in ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and typical children. Journal of Neurotherapy, 16(1), 12-31 .
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2012). Hyperlexia and dyslexia in autism: Hitting a moving target. Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation, 13(3), 39-54 .
Casanova, M. F., Williams, E. L., Nitzken, M., Switala, A., & El-Baz, A. (2012). A cerebral spectrum from autism to dyslexia: Determining cortical surface complexity utilizing spherical harmonics. International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Toronto, Ontario, May 18, 2012.
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2011). Prenatal ultrasound: It's not just a photograph. Autism Science Digest, 1(1), 58-60 .
Baruth, J., Williams, E. L., Sokhadze, E., El-Baz, A., & Casanova, M. F. (2011). Beneficial effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on behavioral outcome measures in autism spectrum disorders. Autism Science Digest, 1(1), 52-57.
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2011). Above genetics: Lessons from cerebral development in autism. Translational Neuroscience,2(2), 106-120 .
Casanova, M. F., El-Baz, A., Switala, A. E., Williams, E. L., Williams, D., Minshew, N., & Conturo, T. (2011). Quantitative analysis of the shape of the corpus callosum in autism. Autism, 15(2), 223-238 .
Casanova, M. F., El-Baz, A., Elnakib, A., Giedd, J., Rumsey, J. M., Williams, E. L., & Switala, A. E. (2010). Corpus callosum shape analysis with application to dyslexia. Translational Neuroscience, 1(2), 124-130 .
Casanova, M. F., & Williams, E. L. (2010). Special Interest Group (SIG): Maternal Influences: “Autism and ultrasound: A time window of vulnerability”. International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2010.
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2010). Autism and dyslexia: A spectrum of cognitive styles as defined by minicolumnar morphometry. Medical Hypotheses, 74, 59-62 .
Casanova, M. F., & Williams, E. L. (2010). The neurobiology of autism: The role of ultrasound. AutismOne, Chicago, IL, May 30, 2010.
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2011). Autism or autisms? Finding the lowest common denominator. Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, 102(4), 17-24 .
Casanova, M. F., El-Baz, A. S., Switala, A. E., Williams, E. L., Williams, D. L., Minshew, N. J., & Conturo, T. E. (2010). Quantitative analysis of the shape of the corpus callosum in autism. International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2010.
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2010). Potential teratogenic effects of ultrasound on corticogenesis: Implications for autism. Medical Hypotheses, 75, 53-58 .
Conturo, T. E., Williams, D. L., Williams, E. L., Smith, C. D., Gultepe, E., Akbudak, E., Strauss, M. S., & Minshew, N. J. (2010). Microstructural changes in face processing pathways in autism: Diffusion tensor tracking (DTT) with behavioral comparison. International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Philadelphia, PA, May 22, 2010.
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2009). Autism and dyslexia: A spectrum of cognitive styles as defined by minicolumnar morphometry. AWARES Online Conference 2009, http://www.awares.org/conferences/show_paper.asp?section=000100010001&conferenceCode=000200110009&id=229 .
Williams, E. L., & Casanova, M. F. (2012). Ultrasound and autism: How disrupted redox homeostasis and transient membrane porosity confer risk. In: D. Dietrich-Maszalska, S. Gagnon, and V. Chauhan, eds. Donald Armstrong, series editor. Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice. Berlin: Springer, in press.
BOOK
(2018). Defining Autism . Jessica Kingsley Publishers.