Publications

Publications by Topic

• Neuropsychology of Learning and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  Extending the cross-disorder relevance of cognition to dimensional neuropsychiatric traits in youth. McGrath, L.M., Braaten, E.B., Doty, N.D., Willoughby, B.L., Wilson, H.K., O'Donnell, E. H.,Colvin, M.K., Ditmars, H.L., Blais, J. E., Hill, E.N., Metzger, A., Perlis, R. H., Willcutt, E.G., Smoller, J.W., Waldman, I.E., Faraone, S.V., Seidman, L.J., Doyle, A.E. (2016). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,57 (4), 462-71. PDF

  Attention bias to emotional faces varies by IQ in Williams syndrome. McGrath, L.M., Oates, J.M.,**, Dai, Y.G.,**, Dodd, H.F., Waxler, J., Clements, C.C.**, Weill, S.**, Hoffnagle, A., Anderson, E., MacRae, R.**, Mullett, J., McDougle, C. J., Pober, B. R., Smoller, J.W. (2016). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46 (6), 2174-85. PDF

  Cognitive Prediction of Reading, Math, and Attention: Shared and Unique Influences. Peterson, R.L., Boada, R., McGrath, L.M., Willcutt, E.G., Olson, R.K., Pennington, B.F. (2016). Journal of Learning Disabilities, 50 (4), 408-421. PDF

  A multiple deficit model of Reading Disability and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Searching for shared cognitive deficits. McGrath, L. M., Pennington, B. F., Shanahan, M. A., Santerre-Lemmon, L. E., Barnard, H. D., Willcutt, E. G., DeFries, J. C., Olson, R. K. (2011). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, 547-557. PDF

  Etiology and neuropsychology of comorbidity between RD and ADHD: The case for multiple-deficit models. Willcutt, E. G., Betjemann, R. S., McGrath, L. M., Chhabildas, C., Pennington, B. F. (2010). Cortex, 46, 1345-61. PDF

  Children with comorbid Speech Sound Disorder and Specific Language Impairment are at increased risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. McGrath, L. M., Hutaff-Lee, C., Scott, A., Boada, R., Shriberg, L., & Pennington, B. F. (2008). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 151-163. PDF

  Executive dysfunction and its relationship to language ability in verbal school-age children with autism. Joseph, R. M., McGrath, L., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2005). Developmental Neuropsychology, 27, 361-378. PDF

• Genetics and Gene X Environment Interactions in Learning Disorders

  Two GWASs are better than one: Enhancing genetic discovery for developmental phenotypes. McGrath, L.M. (2018). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57, 77-79. PDF

  Gene x Environment Interactions in Reading Disability and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Pennington, B. F., McGrath, L. M., Barnard, H., Rosenberg, J., Smith, S. D., Willcutt, E. G., Friend, A., DeFries, J. C., Olson, R. K. (2009). Developmental Psychology, 45, 77-89. PDF

  Gene x Environment interactions in speech sound disorder predict language and preliteracy outcomes. McGrath, L. M., Pennington, B. F., Willcutt, E. G., Boada, R., Shriberg, L. D., Smith, S. D. (2007). Development & Psychopathology, 19, 1047-1072. PDF

  Neuropsychology and genetics of speech, language, and literacy disorders. Peterson, R. L., McGrath, L. M., Smith, S. D., Pennington, B. F. (2007). Pediatric Clinics of North America, 54, 543 - 561. PDF

  Breakthroughs in the search for dyslexia candidate genes. McGrath, L. M., Smith, S. D., Pennington, B. F. (2006). Trends in Molecular Medicine, 12, 333-341. PDF

• Genetics and Gene X Environment Interactions in Child Psychiatric Disorders

  Copy Number Variation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Tourette Syndrome: A Cross-Disorder Study. McGrath, L. M., Yu, D., Marshall, C., Davis, L. K., Thiruvahindrapuram, B., Li, B., ... & Cook, E., Pauls, D.L., Wang, K., Scharf, J. (2014). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(8), 910-919. PDF

  Genetic predictors of risk and resilience in psychiatric disorders: A cross-disorder genome-wide association study of functional impairment in major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. McGrath, L. M., Cornelis, M.C., Lee, P.H., Robinson, E.B., Duncan, L.E., Barnett, J.H., Huang, J., Gerber, G., Sklar, P., Sullivan, P., Perlis, R.H., Smoller, J.W. (2013). Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet, 162(8), 77-788. PDF

  Bringing a developmental perspective to anxiety genetics. McGrath, L. M., Weill, S., Robinson, E.B., Macrae, R., Smoller, J.W. (2012). Dev Psychopathol. Nov; 24(4): 1179-93. PDF

  A Latent Modeling Approach to Genotype-Phenotype Relationships: Maternal Problem Behavior Clusters, Prenatal Smoking, and MAOA Genotype. McGrath, L. M., Mustanski, B., Metzger, A., Kistner-Griffin, E., Pine, D., Cook, E., Wakschlag, L. (2012). Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 15 (4), 269-282. PDF

• Dispelling myths about Dyslexia

  Anderson, A., Sarlo, G. L., Pearlstein, H., & McGrath, L. M. (2020, July). A Review of Online Dyslexia Learning Modules. (Vol. 5, p. 118). Frontiers in Education, 5, 118. PDF 

  Macdonald, K., Germine, L., Anderson, A., Christodoulou, J., & McGrath, L. M. (2017). Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 1314. PDF 

• Individual Differences in Cognitive Development

  The developmental relationship between specific cognitive domains and grey matter in the cerebellum. Moore, D.,** D'Mello, A.**, McGrath, L.M., Stoodley, C. J. (in press). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF

  The genetic architecture of pediatric neurocognitive abilities in the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort. Robinson, E. B., Kirby, A., Ruparel, K., Abou-Sleiman, P., Yan, J., McGrath, L.M., Anttila, V., Neale, B.M., Merikangas, K., Lehner, T., Daly, M.J., Hakonarson, H., Gur, R., Gur, R. (2015). Molecular Psychiatry. PDF

   

• Co-occurrence of Learning Disabilities with ADHD and Other Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

  Theoretical Papers 

  Slomowitz, R. F., Narayan, A. J., & McGrath, L. M. (2025). Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology. Learning and Instruction, 97, 102090. PDF 

  Empirical Papers 

  Slomowitz, R. F., Narayan, A. J., Pennington, B. F., Olson, R. K., DeFries, J. C., Willcutt, E. G., & McGrath, L. M. (2021). In Search of Cognitive Promotive and Protective Factors of Word Reading. Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, 25(5), 397–416. PDF 

  Peterson, R. L., McGrath, L. M., Willcutt, E. G., Keenan, J. M., Olson, R. K., & Pennington, B. F. (2021). How Specific Are Learning Disabilities? Journal of learning disabilities, 54(6), 466–483. PDF 

  Willcutt, E. G., McGrath, L. M., Pennington, B. F., Keenan, J. M., DeFries, J. C., Olson, R. K., & Wadsworth, S. J. (2019). Understanding Comorbidity Between Specific Learning Disabilities. New directions for child and adolescent development, 2019(165), 91–109. PDF  

• Mental Health in Children with Learning Disabilities

  Anderson, N. J., Rozenman, M., Pennington, B. F., Willcutt, E. G., & McGrath, L. M. (2023). Compounding Effects of Domain-General Cognitive Weaknesses and Word Reading Difficulties on Anxiety Symptoms in Youth. Journal of learning disabilities, 56(5), 343–358. PDF 

  Kramer, E., Willcutt, E. G., Peterson, R. L., Pennington, B. F., & McGrath, L. M. (2023). Processing Speed is Related to the General Psychopathology Factor in Youth. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 51(8), 1179–1193. PDF