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Missing referents, psychotic symptoms, and discriminating the internal from the externalizedNancy M Docherty
Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:416-23. 2012..The findings of this study support the idea that missing referents, hallucinations, and delusions have some common process underpinnings. Impairment in internal source memory appears to be one such process...- Anxiety interacts with expressed emotion criticism in the prediction of psychotic symptom exacerbationNancy M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:611-8. 2011..Objectively measured levels of criticism were more predictive than patient-rated levels of criticism... - Life events and high-trait reactivity together predict psychotic symptom increases in schizophreniaNancy M Docherty
Schizophr Bull 35:638-45. 2009..Such patients might benefit particularly from interventions designed to assist them in coping with potentially stressful life events and circumstances... - Normal personality characteristics in schizophrenia: a review of the literature involving the FFMThomas J Dinzeo
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:421-9. 2007..The implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed... - The cognitive origins of specific types of schizophrenic speech disturbancesNancy M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:2111-8. 2006..This study examined the contributions of impairments in sustained attention and sequencing abilities to schizophrenic speech disorder, measured in terms of communication failures and divided into different types of disorder... - Expressed emotion and differentiation of self in the relatives of stable schizophrenia outpatientsN M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, OH, USA
Psychiatry 61:269-78. 1998.... - Cognitive impairments and disordered speech in schizophrenia: thought disorder, disorganization, and communication failure perspectivesNancy M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:269-78. 2005.... - Communication disturbances in relatives beyond the age of risk for schizophrenia and their associations with symptoms in patientsN M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, OH 44242, USA
Schizophr Bull 25:851-62. 1999..The nature of the failures identified suggests the possible involvement of weaknesses in specific areas of cognitive functioning... - Affective reactivity of language symptoms, startle responding, and inhibition in schizophreniaN M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 110:194-8. 2001.... - 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... - Schizophrenic patients' perceptions of stress, expressed emotion, and sensitivity to criticismLinda P Cutting
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, USA
Schizophr Bull 32:743-50. 2006..Patients reported feeling more stressed when interacting with high-EE influential others, supporting an "EE as stressor" hypothesis. Finally, patients' STC influenced the level of stress they reported... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Internal source monitoring and thought disorder in schizophreniaTasha M Nienow
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Ohio 44242, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:696-700. 2004..Results suggest that internal source monitoring is specifically related to thought disorder in patients with schizophrenia... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Attributional style in delusional patients: a comparison of remitted paranoid, remitted nonparanoid, and current paranoid patients with nonpsychiatric controlsJennifer M Aakre
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:994-1002. 2009..Interestingly, all patient groups also were found to be significantly more likely than the controls to use internal-personal and internal-universal attributions when explaining negative events... - 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... - Referential communication disturbances in the speech of nonschizophrenic siblings of schizophrenia patientsNancy M Docherty
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:399-405. 2004..These results, which are very similar to those previously reported on parents of patients, support the idea that referential disturbances reflect vulnerability to schizophrenia... - Coping in parents of schizophrenia patients with differing degrees of familial exposure to psychosisAnnie St-Hilaire
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 0001, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:596-600. 2007..Findings suggest that greater familial exposure to psychosis may have an adverse effect on their ability to deal with life stressors. Results are discussed in light of the possible influence of genetic and environmental factors... - Cognitive impairments, emotion, stress, and language in schizophreniaJames P Seghers
Kent State University, Department of Psychology, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Psychiatry Res 170:97-102. 2009..These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding both schizophrenic language disturbance and stress vulnerability... - 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... - Psychosis proneness, coping, and perceptions of social supportRuth E Dangelmaier
Kent State University, Department of Psychology, Kent, OH 44242 0001, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 76:13-7. 2006.... - 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... - Schizotypy, alexithymia, and socioemotional outcomesJames P Seghers
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 199:117-21. 2011..The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of hypothesized substrates of alexithymia... - Language reactivity and work functioning in schizophreniaAnnie St-Hilaire
Kent State University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Schizophr Res 75:241-6. 2005..This suggests that language-reactive patients are more sensitive to social stressors than language-nonreactive patients... - 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.... - Expressed emotion, attribution, and control in parents of schizophrenic patientsElizabeth C Peterson
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Psychiatry 67:197-207. 2004..These results suggest that the emotional overinvolvement component of high expressed emotion is associated with self-blaming attributions and controlling behaviors in parents, but that the criticism component is not... - Affective reactivity of language and right-ear advantage in schizophreniaJoseph P Rhinewine
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Schizophr Res 53:181-6. 2002..Findings should be regarded as preliminary due to the small sample size; however, they may potentially contribute to construct the validity of affective reactivity as a process discriminator in schizophrenia... - Internal source monitoring and communication disturbance in patients with schizophreniaTasha M Nienow
University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Psychol Med 35:1717-26. 2005..It was predicted that internal source monitoring would relate specifically to one type of communication disturbance, the missing information reference...
Research Grants
- COGNITIVE BASES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE SYMPTOMSNancy Docherty; Fiscal Year: 2001..abstract_text> ..
- COGNITIVE BASES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE SYMPTOMSNancy Docherty; Fiscal Year: 2007..Consideration would be given to ways of translating the findings of this study into workable interventions to improve patients' ability to communicate, which could be tested in future studies. ..
- COGNITIVE BASES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE SYMPTOMSNancy Docherty; Fiscal Year: 2009..Consideration would be given to ways of translating the findings of this study into workable interventions to improve patients' ability to communicate, which could be tested in future studies. ..
- COGNITIVE BASES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE SYMPTOMSNancy M Docherty; Fiscal Year: 2010..Consideration would be given to ways of translating the findings of this study into workable interventions to improve patients'ability to communicate, which could be tested in future studies. ..