A5026166163- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Speech and Audio Processing
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Music and Audio Processing
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Resilience and Mental Health
Boston University
2016-2024
Boston College
2023
ORCID
2021
University of California, San Francisco
2012-2015
University of Miami
2008-2014
Palo Alto Institute
2014
University of San Francisco
2013
In an experience-sampling study, we tested the influence of goal progress on subsequent effort toward that among persons with bipolar disorder (BD) and control subjects without BD. We hypothesized, overall, unexpectedly low a would lead to increase in goal, high decrease (permitting be shifted another goal). Drawing literature relating BD elevated goal-approach sensitivity, hypothesized less responsive than subjects. Participants answered questions three times day, for 21 days, about goals....
Background Research suggests that variability in attention and working memory scores, as seen across time points, may be a sensitive indicator of impairment compared with singular score at one point time. Given fluctuation cognitive performance is meaningful metric real-world function trajectory, it valuable to understand the internal state-based environmental factors could driving these fluctuations performance. Objective In this viewpoint, we argue for use repeated mobile assessment way...
Social anxiety interferes with accurate perceptions of others' thoughts and intentions, yet studies examining the association between social cognition have resulted in mixed findings. We examined dimensional levels assessments lower- higher-level cognition. In Study 1 (n = 1485), we found that was negatively related to accuracy an assessment (i.e., theory mind) across all stimuli. However, no consistent lower-level emotion recognition). 2 363), associated another form cognition, empathic...
Previous research has shown a weak association between self-reported empathy and performance on behavioral assessments of social cognition. However, previous studies have often overlooked important distinctions within these multifaceted constructs (e.g., differences among the subcomponents empathy, in tasks assessing lower- vs. high-level cognition, potential covariates that represent competing predictors). Using data from three separate (total N = 2,376), we tested whether tendency to take...
The prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders demands methods accessible assessment that reliably captures cognition in daily life contexts. We investigated the feasibility smartphone cognitive people with Parkinson's disease (PD), who may have impairment addition to motor-related problems limit attending in-person clinics. examined how daily-life factors predicted performance and convergent validity traditional neuropsychological tests.Twenty-seven nondemented individuals mild-moderate PD...
Some of the most debilitating aspects schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses (SMI) are impairments in social perception, motivation, behavior that frequently accompany these conditions. These may ultimately lead to chronic disconnection (ie, withdrawal, objective isolation, perceived isolation or loneliness), which contribute poor cardiometabolic health early mortality commonly observed SMI. However, psychological neurobiological mechanisms underlying relationships between...
Diminished motivation is associated with robust impairment in psychosocial functioning schizophrenia (SZ).Little known about the reciprocal relationships between and functioning, particularly following a first episode of psychosis.We tested bidirectional associations social occupational year SZ spectrum disorder among patients Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode-Early Treatment Program (RAISE-ETP) study.Four hundred four individuals (aged 15-40) who presented (eg, SZ,...
People with schizophrenia report positive emotion during social interactions in ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies; however, few of these studies examine the qualities (e.g., intimacy) that may affect experience. In current EMA study, people (n = 20) and without 15) answered questions about quality their interactions, including experiences. We also explored relationship between EMA-reported experiences trait loneliness, negative symptoms, functioning. did not differ proportion...