A5036211188- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Homelessness and Social Issues
University of California, Berkeley
2014-2019
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
2016-2018
Anticipatory pleasure deficits have been observed in people with schizophrenia. Less is known about the extent to which interrelated processes that comprise anticipatory pleasure, including memory, prospection, and emotion experience are disrupted. We asked (n = 32) without 29) schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder provide memory prospection narratives response specific cues. Half of prospections followed a task, half control task. People generated memories similar content as controls...
Substance-use disorders (SUDs) are common and costly conditions. Understanding high inpatient utilization (HIU) among patients with SUD can inform the development of treatment approaches designed to reduce healthcare expenditures improve service quality.To examine prevalence, type, predictors HIU co-occurring mental health conditions.Service demographic clinical variables were extracted from a national sample Veterans Health Administration (VA) SUD-only [n = 148,960 (98.3% male)], plus...
Summary Previous research suggests that our prospections rely, in part, upon memories. However, less is known about the ways which content of memories and are similar (or dissimilar) whether this similarity varies by emotion. In present study, we coded style participants' (n = 109) positive, negative, neutral memory prospection narratives. Emotional were more elaborated, social, further back time than By contrast, varied valence: Positive included place indicators social closer negative...
Abstract Objectives Emotion deficits are well documented in people with schizophrenia. Far less is known about their ability to implement emotion regulation strategies. We sought explore whether schizophrenia can modify responses similar controls. Methods People ( n = 25) and without 21) were instructed amplify positive‐emotion expression, reappraise negative experience, suppress physiological response. Multiple components of response measured (experience, physiology). Results Although...
Although care management approaches have potential to improve clinical outcomes and reduce high health costs of patients with complex substance use disorders, characterized by psychosocial, psychological, and/or medical needs acute utilization, little is known about patients' perspectives or experiences these interventions. The objectives this study were identify barriers facilitators patient engagement in services for disorders from perspectives. This pilot invited 22 men utilization who...
Objective People with schizophrenia experience deficits in perspective-taking and metacognition, both of which are related to social impairment the disorder. Current measurement paradigms vary their ability capture nuanced interconnection metacognitive processes during dyadic interactions. This study aimed introduce Interpersonal Block Assembly Task (IBAT) as a measure provide preliminary evidence reliability validity sample people schizophrenia. Method Thirty-nine 35 healthy (without...
Severe mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD) are among the more chronic costly health conditions treated in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Service patterns returning veterans with SMI SUD have received little attention. We examined gender differences utilization VA services a national sample Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND) patients SMI, SUD, their comorbidity (SMI/SUD) first year established care (N = 24,166). Outpatient acute-residential...