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Self-reported stress and the deficit syndrome of schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, 118 Kent Hall, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Psychiatry 66:308-16. 2003..Given that stress has been an essential component in conceptualizations of schizophrenia onset and relapse, the possibility of stress-resistant properties associated with the deficit syndrome should be tested in future research...- Affective reactivity of speech and emotional experience in patients with schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, PO Box 119, Kent, OH 44240, USA
Schizophr Res 69:7-14. 2004..These results suggest that emotion-related variables mediate the relationship between stress and language symptom exacerbations in at least some patients with schizophrenia... 
Towards a cognitive resource limitations model of diminished expression in schizotypyAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:109-18. 2012..These findings suggest that diminished expression occurs as a function of limited cognitive resources in psychometrically defined schizotypy...- Attribution biases in schizophrenia: relationship to clinical and functional impairmentsAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 708080, USA
Psychopathology 42:40-6. 2009..The present study examined the degree to which attribution biases in facial emotion perception are associated with psychiatric symptomatology and social and occupational impairments... - Attentional dysfunction, social perception, and social competence: what is the nature of the relationship?Tasha M Nienow
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, OH, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:408-17. 2006..Affect recognition was found to moderate the relationship between span of apprehension and social competence... 
Computerized measurement of negative symptoms in schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
J Psychiatr Res 42:827-36. 2008..Both the computer and clinical measures of positive emotion/anhedonia corresponded to functioning impairments. The computerized method of assessing negative symptoms offered a number of advantages over the symptom scale-based approach...- Facial emotion recognition in schizotypy: the role of accuracy and social cognitive biasLaura A Brown
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:474-83. 2010..Although emotion recognition appears unrelated to symptoms, it probably operates by means of different processes in those with particular types of symptoms... - Understanding emotional expression using prosodic analysis of natural speech: refining the methodologyAlex S Cohen
Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 41:150-7. 2010..Alternatively, speech from the recall of autobiographical memories resulted in meaningful changes in both subjective state and prosodic expression. Implications for the study of psychological disorders are discussed... - On the boundaries of blunt affect/alogia across severe mental illness: implications for Research Domain CriteriaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Schizophr Res 140:41-5. 2012..Computerized acoustic analysis of speech appears to be a promising method for understanding the pathological manifestation of these variables... - Affective reactivity of speech disturbances in schizotypyKyle S Minor
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 206 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
J Psychiatr Res 44:99-105. 2010..Moreover, the incongruous relationships between disorganized and interpersonal symptoms with SD underscore the marked heterogeneity in processes across schizotypy... - Affective disturbances in psychometrically defined schizotypy across direct, but not indirect assessment modesAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70808, USA
Schizophr Res 128:136-42. 2011..These data suggest that affective deficits in schizotypy reflect deliberative rather than implicit/automatic processes. Implications of these findings are discussed... - Emotion word use in the conversational speech of schizophrenia patientsAnnie St-Hilaire
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Cogn Neuropsychiatry 13:343-56. 2008..The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the use of emotion words during a free speech task and subjective experience of emotion in schizophrenia patients and controls... - Neuropsychological functioning and social anhedonia: three-year follow-up data from a longitudinal community high risk studyAlex S Cohen
Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, USA
J Psychiatr Res 46:898-904. 2012..Collectively, these findings suggest that neurocognitive dysfunctions only characterize a subset of individuals with social anhedonia... - A laboratory study of affectivity in schizotypy: subjective and lexical analysisGina M Najolia
Department of Psychology, Louisana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Psychiatry Res 189:233-8. 2011..These results reveal a specific pattern of "in-the-moment" affective dysfunction unique to pleasant situations that is consistent across both subjective experience and lexical expression... - Cannabis and psychometrically-defined schizotypy: use, problems and treatment considerationsAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
J Psychiatr Res 45:548-54. 2011..However, cannabis use was associated with lower severity of negative traits. Implications of these results are discussed... - Effects of positive affect on speech disorder in schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 1129 Biology-Psychology Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:839-42. 2005..Results suggest that arousal of positive affect has an ameliorative effect on speech disorder for certain patients who have relatively severe symptomatology... - Diminished emotionality and social functioning in schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:796-802. 2005..Moreover, there was a substantial amount of discrepancy between patients' self-reported levels of emotionality and the ratings of their emotionality as made by trained observers. Implications of these results are discussed... - Stress and arousability in schizophreniaThomas J Dinzeo
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, USA
Schizophr Res 71:127-35. 2004..These results suggest that temperament characteristics of an individual with schizophrenia may be related to stress responsiveness and symptom presentation... - The state-trait disjunction of anhedonia in schizophrenia: potential affective, cognitive and social-based mechanismsAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 31:440-8. 2011..Additionally, practical recommendations for future studies examining affective dysfunction within the schizophrenia-spectrum are discussed... - Birth characteristics and schizotypy: evidence of a potential "second hit"Alex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
J Psychiatr Res 45:955-61. 2011..This finding, and the unexpected inverse relationship between birthplace population and negative/schizoid traits, is discussed... - Emotional experience in patients with schizophrenia revisited: meta-analysis of laboratory studiesAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 206 Audubon Hall Baton Rouge, LA 708080, USA
Schizophr Bull 36:143-50. 2010..Patients' ability to experience hedonic emotion is preserved, although they also show relatively strong, simultaneously occurring aversive emotion when processing laboratory stimuli considered by others to be pleasant or neutral... - Symptom-oriented versus syndrome approaches to resolving heterogeneity of neuropsychological functioning in schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, 1129 Biology Psychology Bldg, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 17:384-90. 2005..The individual symptoms of the positive syndrome were associated with relatively distinct patterns of neuropsychological performance, suggesting that the symptom-oriented approach was more sensitive... - On "risk" and reward: investigating state anhedonia in psychometrically defined schizotypy and schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:407-15. 2012..Our discussion centers on this apparent paradox in the schizophrenia spectrum--that individuals with schizotypy exhibit state anhedonia, whereas patients with schizophrenia do not... - Social anhedonia and schizotypy in a community sample: the Maryland longitudinal study of schizotypyJack J Blanchard
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:587-602. 2011..These cross-sectional findings from a community sample provide further support for social anhedonia as a possible indicator of schizotypy... - Understanding constricted affect in schizotypy through computerized prosodic analysisAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana StateUniversity, 206 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
J Pers Disord 25:478-91. 2011..Prosodic deficits characterize a subset of individuals with schizotypy who show a schizoid-like reduction in social behaviors without a concomitant reduction in social satisfaction... - Neuropsychology of the deficit syndrome: new data and meta-analysis of findings to dateAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Schizophr Bull 33:1201-12. 2007..The question of whether deficit patients exhibit a unique cognitive impairment profile will require a more sophisticated and rigorous examination of the neuropsychology of the deficit syndrome... - Prevalence and incidence of severe mental illness in the United States: an historical overviewAlan A Baumeister
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 20:247-58. 2012..It is a balanced presentation of the arguments for and against a rise in mental illness. Original data from U.S. censuses and national reporting of mental hospital statistics are incorporated... - Deficit versus negative syndrome in schizophrenia: prediction of attentional impairmentAlex S Cohen
University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, 1129 Biology Psychology Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Schizophr Bull 30:827-35. 2004.... - The structure of negative symptoms within schizophrenia: implications for assessmentJack J Blanchard
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Schizophr Bull 32:238-45. 2006..Importantly, caution is noted in the interpretability of findings based on existing instruments, and implications for future assessment are discussed... - Quality of life across the schizotypy spectrum: findings from a large nonclinical adult sampleAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Compr Psychiatry 50:408-14. 2009..The present study examined the relative contributions of negative, positive, and disorganized schizotypy symptoms to QOL... - Cigarette smoking across the schizotypy spectrumDiana W Stewart
Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Psychiatry Res 179:113-5. 2010..These findings offer insight into mechanisms underlying smoking in schizotypal individuals and suggest areas for further research... - Mental health problems and interest in marijuana treatment among marijuana-using college studentsJulia D Buckner
Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Addict Behav 35:826-33. 2010..Further, little is known about factors related to interest in marijuana treatment among students experiencing marijuana-related problems... - A framework for understanding experiential deficits in schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
Psychiatry Res 178:10-6. 2010.... - Looking at the other side of the coin: a meta-analysis of self-reported emotional arousal in people with schizophreniaKatiah Llerena
University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Psychology, USA
Schizophr Res 142:65-70. 2012.... - The role of atypical semantic activation and stress in odd speech: implications for individuals with psychometrically defined schizotypyKyle S Minor
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
J Psychiatr Res 46:1231-6. 2012..Here, our primary aim was to examine how atypical semantic activation (ASA) and stress are related to odd speech in individuals with psychometrically-defined schizotypy... - Clarifying the linguistic signature: measuring personality from natural speechAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
J Pers Assess 90:559-63. 2008..The personality variables accounted for almost a quarter of the variance in emotional expressivity... - A laboratory-based procedure for measuring emotional expression from natural speechAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Behav Res Methods 41:204-12. 2009..The implications for understanding the interface between lexical and prosodic expressions are also discussed... - Stability of formal thought disorder and referential communication disturbances in schizophreniaNancy M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Ohio 44242, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:469-75. 2003..These results support the idea that some types of referential disturbances are traitlike and may be reflective of vulnerability as well as manifest illness... - Schizotypal, schizoid and paranoid characteristics in the biological parents of social anhedonicsAlex S Cohen
Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, USA
Psychiatry Res 178:79-83. 2010..The unexpected findings of elevated pathology in fathers, but not mothers of socially anhedonic probands, require further exploration... - Specific cognitive deficits and differential domains of social functioning impairment in schizophreniaAlex S Cohen
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Schizophr Res 81:227-38. 2006..These findings highlight the importance of conceptualizing social functioning as a multidimensional construct for schizophrenia research... - Neuropsychological functioning and social anhedonia: results from a community high-risk studyAlex S Cohen
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Schizophr Res 85:132-41. 2006..Longitudinal assessment of these participants as they move through the risk period should provide important insights into the neuropsychological correlates of the schizophrenia prodrome... - A three-dimensional typology of delusionsAlex S Cohen
Schizophr Res 83:293-5. 2006