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Association of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dysfunction with disrupted coordinated brain activity in schizophrenia: relationship with impaired cognition, behavioral disorganization, and global functionJong H Yoon
Department of Psychiatry and Imaging Research Center, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, Calif 95817, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:1006-14. 2008....
Conflict-related activity in the caudal anterior cingulate cortex in the absence of awarenessStefan Ursu
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Biol Psychol 80:279-86. 2009..These results suggest that the performance monitoring function of the cACC extends beyond detection of errors made with or without awareness, and involves detection of multiple responses even when they are outside of awareness...
An initial investigation of the orbitofrontal cortex hyperactivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: exaggerated representations of anticipated aversive events?Stefan Ursu
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:2145-8. 2009..The level of OFC hyperactivity correlated directly with the severity of anxiety symptoms. These results support the hypothesis that OCD is characterized by exaggerated OFC representations of anticipated aversive events...
Imaging biomarkers for treatment development for impaired cognition: report of the sixth CNTRICS meeting: Biomarkers recommended for further developmentCameron S Carter
Department of Psychiatry and Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Schizophr Bull 38:26-33. 2012....
Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia II: developing imaging biomarkers to enhance treatment development for schizophrenia and related disordersCameron S Carter
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 70:7-12. 2011..This overview article describes the background and goals of the meeting together with a summary of the major issues discussed in more detail in the accompanying articles appearing in this issue of Biological Psychiatry...
CNTRICS final task selection: social cognitive and affective neuroscience-based measuresCameron S Carter
UC Davis Imaging Research Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:153-62. 2009....
Optimizing the design and analysis of clinical functional magnetic resonance imaging research studiesCameron S Carter
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Biol Psychiatry 64:842-9. 2008....
Identifying cognitive mechanisms targeted for treatment development in schizophrenia: an overview of the first meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia InitiativeCameron S Carter
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA
Biol Psychiatry 64:4-10. 2008..The articles in this special section report on the results of the first conference, which used a criterion-based consensus-building process to develop a set of cognitive constructs to be targeted for translation efforts...
Anterior cingulate cortex and conflict detection: an update of theory and dataCameron S Carter
Imaging Research Center, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 7:367-79. 2007..We also discuss some discrepant results in the literature that highlight the need for future research...
Some rewarding insights into the cognitive and neurobiological basis of negative symptoms in schizophreniaCameron S Carter
Department of Psychiatry, Imaging Research Center, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Biol Psychiatry 62:709-10. 2007
Applying new approaches from cognitive neuroscience to enhance drug development for the treatment of impaired cognition in schizophreniaCameron S Carter
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Schizophr Bull 31:810-5. 2005....
CNTRICS imaging biomarker selections: Executive control paradigmsCameron S Carter
Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Schizophr Bull 38:34-42. 2012..These 2 paradigms are recommended for further development, including further validation at the cognitive and neural level and optimization with respect to subject tolerability, psychometric, and neurometric features...
Stimulus and response conflict processing during perceptual decision makingCarter Wendelken
University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 9:434-47. 2009..These results shed light on the neural mechanisms that support decision making in the presence of conflict, a cognitive operation fundamental to both basic survival and high-level cognition...
Increased amygdala and decreased dorsolateral prefrontal BOLD responses in unipolar depression: related and independent featuresGreg J Siegle
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:198-209. 2007..These mechanisms have been hypothesized to interact in depression. This study explored relationships between amygdala and DLPFC activity during emotional and cognitive information processing in unipolar depression...
Lateral and medial hypofrontality in first-episode schizophrenia: functional activity in a medication-naive state and effects of short-term atypical antipsychotic treatmentBeth E Snitz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:2322-9. 2005..These findings are consistent with an emerging literature documenting short-term benefits of atypical antipsychotic medication for the neural circuitry underlying cognitive deficits in schizophrenia...
Cognitive neuroscience-based approaches to measuring and improving treatment effects on cognition in schizophrenia: the CNTRICS initiativeCameron S Carter
University of California at Davis, USA
Schizophr Bull 33:1131-7. 2007....
A functional and structural study of emotion and face processing in children with autismBlythe A Corbett
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA
Psychiatry Res 173:196-205. 2009....
The effects of clozapine and risperidone on spatial working memory in schizophreniaSusan R McGurk
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:1013-6. 2005..The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of clozapine and risperidone on spatial working memory in patients with schizophrenia...
Adding fear to conflict: a general purpose cognitive control network is modulated by trait anxietyMarie K Krug
University of California, Davis, California, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:357-71. 2010..Additional behavioral and fMRI results from this study may be downloaded from http://cabn.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental...
Prefrontal and striatal activation in elderly subjects during concurrent implicit and explicit sequence learningHoward J Aizenstein
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neurobiol Aging 27:741-51. 2006..Moreover, these changes are observed during an implicit task, and thus do not seem to be mediated by awareness...
Decreased conflict- and error-related activity in the anterior cingulate cortex in subjects with schizophreniaJohn G Kerns
UC Davis Imaging Research Center, University of California-Davis, 4701 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:1833-9. 2005..The current results suggest that impaired conflict monitoring by the anterior cingulate cortex might play an important role in contributing to cognitive control deficits in patients with schizophrenia...
Impaired prefrontal cortical function and disrupted adaptive cognitive control in methamphetamine abusers: a functional magnetic resonance imaging studyRuth Salo
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA
Biol Psychiatry 65:706-9. 2009..Deficits in behavioral control are thought to be one contributing factor to the sustainment of addictive behaviors in MA abuse...
Formal thought disorder and the autism spectrum: relationship with symptoms, executive control, and anxietyMarjorie Solomon
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, 2230 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 38:1474-84. 2008..When FTD is present in ASDs, it generally is not a co-morbid schizophrenia symptom, but is related to pragmatic language abnormalities found in ASDs. The clinical and neurobiological significance of this work is discussed...
Cognitive control in autism spectrum disordersMarjorie Solomon
University of California, Davis, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, United States
Int J Dev Neurosci 26:239-47. 2008..Modest relationships between cognitive control, IQ, and attention problems were found for the sample. Only the relationship between cognitive control and full-scale IQ survived correction for multiple comparisons...
Prefrontal and striatal activation during sequence learning in geriatric depressionHoward J Aizenstein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:290-6. 2005..The aim of the present study was to test this hypothesis with the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tasks that are known to engage the prefrontal and neostriatal cognitive circuits...
Altered functioning of the executive control circuit in late-life depression: episodic and persistent phenomenaHoward J Aizenstein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:30-42. 2009..To characterize the functional neuroanatomy of late-life depression (LLD) by probing for both episodic and persistent alterations in the executive-control circuit of elderly adults...
Subunit-selective modulation of GABA type A receptor neurotransmission and cognition in schizophreniaDavid A Lewis
Department of Psychiatry, W1651 Biomedical Science Tower, 3511 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:1585-93. 2008....
Multivariate pattern analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data reveals deficits in distributed representations in schizophreniaJong H Yoon
Department of Psychiatry and Imaging Research Center, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Biol Psychiatry 64:1035-41. 2008..We applied this method to test the hypothesis of the impairment in distributed representations in schizophrenia. We also compared the results of this method with traditional general linear model (GLM)-based univariate analysis...
Distinguishing expected negative outcomes from preparatory control in the human orbitofrontal cortexStefan Ursu
Department of Psychiatry, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Brain Res 1227:110-9. 2008..Furthermore, they provide additional converging evidence that the lateral OFC is involved in representing specifically the affective impact of anticipated negative outcomes...
Preserved function of the fusiform face area in schizophrenia as revealed by fMRIJong H Yoon
University of California Davis Imaging Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis, 4701 X St, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Psychiatry Res 148:205-16. 2006..The FFA, a critical region in the neural system subserving the perceptual processing of faces, appears to be intact in schizophrenia. These results call into question the presence of a specific face processing deficit in schizophrenia...
Is filtering difficulty the basis of attentional deficits in schizophrenia?Susan M Ravizza
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 151:201-9. 2007..The current findings also suggest that when a course of action is not implied by an irrelevant feature, outpatients' behavior is not modulated by extraneous visual information any more than in healthy controls...
Modafinil: a review of neurochemical actions and effects on cognitionMichael J Minzenberg
Imaging Research Center, Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis Health System, University of California, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:1477-502. 2008..These effects are in general advantageous for cognitive processes. Overall, modafinil is an excellent candidate agent for remediation of cognitive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders...
Preliminary evidence of behavioral predictors of recurrent drug-induced psychosis in methamphetamine abuseRuth Salo
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 157:273-7. 2008....
Modafinil shifts human locus coeruleus to low-tonic, high-phasic activity during functional MRIMichael J Minzenberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
Science 322:1700-2. 2008..These results confirm in humans the role of the LC-NE system in PFC function and cognitive control and suggest a mechanism for therapeutic action of procognitive noradrenergic agents...
Diminished orientation-specific surround suppression of visual processing in schizophreniaJong H Yoon
Department of Psychiatry and Imaging Research Center, University of California Davis, 4701 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:1078-84. 2009..In conjunction with physiological and anatomical evidence from basic and postmortem studies, our results suggest a deficit of inhibition in primary visual cortex in schizophrenia...
The neural substrates of cognitive control deficits in autism spectrum disordersMarjorie Solomon
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Neuropsychologia 47:2515-26. 2009..In the autism group, reduced fronto-parietal connectivity was related to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms...
GABA concentration is reduced in visual cortex in schizophrenia and correlates with orientation-specific surround suppressionJong H Yoon
Department of Psychiatry and Imaging Research Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95817, USA
J Neurosci 30:3777-81. 2010..10). These results suggest that a neocortical GABA deficit in subjects with schizophrenia leads to impaired cortical inhibition and that GABAergic synaptic transmission in visual cortex plays a critical role in OSSS...
Meta-analysis of 41 functional neuroimaging studies of executive function in schizophreniaMichael J Minzenberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 66:811-22. 2009..Whether these impairments are properly considered reflective of hypofrontality vs hyperfrontality remains unresolved...
Outcome representations, counterfactual comparisons and the human orbitofrontal cortex: implications for neuroimaging studies of decision-makingStefan Ursu
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:51-60. 2005..We also discuss some of the implications that these hypotheses have for neuroimaging studies of reward processing and decision-making, and for studies of neuropsychiatric disorders in which these processes are thought to be disturbed...
Very early interventions in psychotic disordersRobinder K Bhangoo
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 32:81-94. 2009..Improving detection of at-risk individuals gives us an opportunity to intervene earlier in the course of the disorder, creating a window of opportunity to improve outcome and decrease overall burden of illness...
Gamma oscillatory power is impaired during cognitive control independent of medication status in first-episode schizophreniaMichael J Minzenberg
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 35:2590-9. 2010..This suggests that altered local circuit function supporting high-frequency oscillatory activity in prefrontal cortex ensembles may serve as the pathophysiological substrate of cognitive control deficits in schizophrenia...
Development of action monitoring through adolescence into adulthood: ERP and source localizationCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Dev Sci 10:874-91. 2007..These findings are discussed in light of the role of the maturation of the ACC in the development of action monitoring processes...
Regional brain activation during concurrent implicit and explicit sequence learningHoward J Aizenstein
University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Cereb Cortex 14:199-208. 2004..Our results suggest a relative dissociation of the brain regions engaged during ESL and ISL, whereby ESL and ISL can be viewed as partially distinct but overlapping parallel processes...
Automated ROI-based brain parcellation analysis of frontal and temporal brain volumes in schizophreniaPilar Lopez-Garcia
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, United States
Psychiatry Res 147:153-61. 2006..The automated ROI-based method can be used as a valid and efficient tool for quantification of regional gray matter volume in schizophrenia in multiple ROIs across the brains of large numbers of subjects...
ERP correlates of action monitoring in adolescenceCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:329-36. 2004....
Generalized signaling for control: evidence from postconflict and posterror performance adjustmentsRaymond Y Cho
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institue and Clinic, University of Pittsburg, 3811 O Hara Street, Oxford 454, Pittsburg, PA 15213, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 35:1161-77. 2009..The results showed that trial-to-trial adjustments exist for both direction-repeat and direction-switch trials, demonstrating that signaling for control adjustments can extend beyond the task context within which they arise...
Prefrontal functioning during context processing in schizophrenia and major depression: an event-related fMRI studyAvram J Holmes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Schizophr Res 76:199-206. 2005..The imaging data replicate previous results in showing abnormal activity in the right middle frontal gyrus (BA9) in schizophrenia patients related to context processing...
Cognitive deficits in unaffected first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients: a meta-analytic review of putative endophenotypesBeth E Snitz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Bull 32:179-94. 2006..Cognitive deficits, particularly those tapping such executive control functions, should continue to prove valuable as endophenotypes of interest in the search for specific genetic factors related to schizophrenia...
Attenuated positive symptoms of psychosis in adolescents with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndromeJoel Stoddard
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and The Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, University of California at Davis Health System, Institute, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, United States
Schizophr Res 118:118-21. 2010..Almost all presented with moderate to severe symptoms in the negative, disorganized, and general symptom domains...
"Brain is to thought as stomach is to ??": investigating the role of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex in relational reasoningCarter Wendelken
University of California, Davis, CA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:682-93. 2008..g., Is shoe to foot as glove is to hand? --> "yes"). The RLPFC was engaged more strongly by the comparison subtask relative to completion, suggesting that the RLPFC is particularly involved in comparing relational structures...
Cognitive experimental approaches to investigating impaired cognition in schizophrenia: a paradigm shiftAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 24:873-82. 2002..We suggest that the use of these measures will increasingly become the preferred approach to the investigation of the nature, neurobiology and genetics of impaired cognition in schizophrenia in the coming years...
Functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology biomarkers for clinical trials for cognition in schizophreniaRaymond Y Cho
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
Schizophr Bull 31:865-9. 2005....
It is time to take a stand for medical research and against terrorism targeting medical scientistsJohn H Krystal
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:725-7. 2008
The evaluation of brain activity in response to taste stimuli--a pilot study and method for central taste activation as assessed by event-related fMRIGuido K Frank
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Room 132, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Neurosci Methods 131:99-105. 2003..We developed a standardized method for the assessment of brain activation in response to taste stimuli...
Factors influencing Stroop performance in schizophreniaDeanna M Barch
Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Neuropsychology 18:477-84. 2004....
Tryptophan depletion alters the decision-making of healthy volunteers through altered processing of reward cuesRobert D Rogers
University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
Neuropsychopharmacology 28:153-62. 2003..It is possible that such a change in the cognition mediating human choice is one mechanism associated with the onset and maintenance of anhedonia and lowered mood in psychiatric illness...
Attentional control and word inhibition in schizophreniaAvishai Henik
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Psychiatry Res 110:137-49. 2002..This suggests that the integrity or impairment of cognitive control functions in schizophrenia is related to the complexity of the context representation required to support that function...
Overactive action monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imagingStefan Ursu
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Psychol Sci 14:347-53. 2003..These findings suggest that as part of an overactive action-monitoring system, the ACC is more directly involved in the pathophysiology of OCD than previously thought...
A specific deficit in context processing in the unaffected siblings of patients with schizophreniaAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:57-65. 2003..In the present study, we evaluated whether a specific deficit in context processing could be associated with the unexpressed genetic liability to schizophrenia...
Prefrontal cortex dysfunction mediates deficits in working memory and prepotent responding in schizophreniaWilliam M Perlstein
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and the McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32610, USA
Biol Psychiatry 53:25-38. 2003..Findings are consistent with the operation of a single underlying PFC-mediated cognitive control mechanism and with physiologic dysfunction of the dorsolateral PFC in schizophrenic patients reflecting impairments in this mechanism...
Measurement issues in the use of cognitive neuroscience tasks in drug development for impaired cognition in schizophrenia: a report of the second consensus building conference of the CNTRICS initiativeDeanna M Barch
Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:613-8. 2008....
Shifting set about task switching: behavioral and neural evidence for distinct forms of cognitive flexibilitySusan M Ravizza
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States
Neuropsychologia 46:2924-35. 2008..These results provide strong evidence for multiple forms of switching and suggest the limitations of generalizing results across shift types...
Understanding the glass ceiling for functional outcome in schizophreniaCameron S Carter
Am J Psychiatry 163:356-8. 2006
Use of concurrent pupil dilation assessment to inform interpretation and analysis of fMRI dataGreg J Siegle
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Neuroimage 20:114-24. 2003....
Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of executive control in very old individuals with mild cognitive impairmentCaterina Rosano
School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:761-7. 2005..76, p = .02) but not with changes in accuracy rates. CONCLUSIONS: PPC and dlPFC may show early functional changes associated with MCI...
Specificity of prefrontal dysfunction and context processing deficits to schizophrenia in never-medicated patients with first-episode psychosisAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N219 Elliott Hall, 75 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:475-84. 2005....
An information-processing model of three cortical regions: evidence in episodic memory retrievalMyeong Ho Sohn
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 342C Baker Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neuroimage 25:21-33. 2005..Using ACT-R, we also provide computational models that explain patterns of fMRI responses in these two areas during recognition and recall...
Neurocognitive mechanisms of cognitive control: the role of prefrontal cortex in action selection, response inhibition, performance monitoring, and reward-based learningK Richard Ridderinkhof
Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brain Cogn 56:129-40. 2004..Lateral and orbitofrontal divisions of prefrontal cortex are involved in subsequently implementing appropriate adjustments...
Cognitive control involved in overcoming prepotent response tendencies and switching between tasksAnita D Barber
University of Pittsburgh, Psychology, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Cereb Cortex 15:899-912. 2005..Precuneus activity was common to both manipulations and may reflect increased visual attention due to more difficult task demands...
The relationship of three cortical regions to an information-processing modelJohn R Anderson
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:637-53. 2004....
Distinct portions of anterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex are activated by reward processing in separable phases of decision-making cognitionRobert D Rogers
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
Biol Psychiatry 55:594-602. 2004....
Anterior cingulate conflict monitoring and adjustments in controlJohn G Kerns
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Science 303:1023-6. 2004....
Event-related FMRI study of context processing in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophreniaAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:689-97. 2003..This mechanism appeared to be impaired in patients with schizophrenia...
Competition and representation during memory retrieval: roles of the prefrontal cortex and the posterior parietal cortexMyeong Ho Sohn
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:7412-7. 2003..This result was consistent with predictions of an information-processing model as well as with an exploratory identification of regions of interest...
Separating semantic conflict and response conflict in the Stroop task: a functional MRI studyVincent van Veen
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neuroimage 27:497-504. 2005..These results suggest that the brain has distinct but parallel attentional mechanisms for resolving these different forms of cognitive interference...
Amphetamine improves cognitive function in medicated individuals with schizophrenia and in healthy volunteersDeanna M Barch
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, United States
Schizophr Res 77:43-58. 2005....
Predicting the practice effects on the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) function of fMRI in a symbolic manipulation taskYulin Qin
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:4951-6. 2003..In contrast, practice has relatively little effect on the form of BOLD response in the parietal region reflecting imagined transformations to the equation or the motor region reflecting manual programming...
COMT val158Met and executive control: a test of the benefit of specific deficits to translational researchAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:306-12. 2007..These data suggest that the interpretability gained by including task manipulations to uncover specific deficits can enhance associations between cognitive and genetic levels of analysis...
Context-processing deficits in schizophrenia: diagnostic specificity, 4-week course, and relationships to clinical symptomsDeanna M Barch
Department of Psychology, St Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:132-43. 2003..However, context-processing deficits improved in the psychotic comparison group at 4 weeks but did not improve in patients with schizophrenia...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging study of cognitive control in the healthy relatives of schizophrenia patientsAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:1241-9. 2006....
Sulcal thickness as a vulnerability indicator for schizophreniaVina M Goghari
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Br J Psychiatry 191:229-33. 2007..People with schizophrenia may demonstrate cortical abnormalities, with gyri and sulci potentially being differentially affected...
Polishing the windows of the mindCameron S Carter
Am J Psychiatry 163:761-3. 2006
A convergent-divergent approach to context processing, general intellectual functioning, and the genetic liability to schizophreniaAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Neuropsychology 19:814-21. 2005....
Context processing performance in bipolar disorder patientsPaolo Brambilla
Department of Pathology and Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Bipolar Disord 9:230-7. 2007..However, this cognitive dimension has not yet been examined in BPD patients in the existing literature...
Anticipation of conflict monitoring in the anterior cingulate cortex and the prefrontal cortexMyeong Ho Sohn
Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:10330-4. 2007....
Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward-related brain circuitry in children and adolescentsJ Christopher May
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:359-66. 2004....
The change of the brain activation patterns as children learn algebra equation solvingYulin Qin
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:5686-91. 2004..This finding suggests that adolescents' brain responses are more plastic and change more with practice. These results are integrated in a cognitive model that predicts both the behavioral and brain imaging results...
Re-conceptualizing schizophrenia as a disorder of cognitive and emotional processing: a shot in the arm for translational researchCameron S Carter
Biol Psychiatry 60:1169-70. 2006
Prefrontal cortex guides context-appropriate responding during language productionJohn G Kerns
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, USA
Neuron 43:283-91. 2004..Overall, as in other cognitive task domains, these results suggest that PFC context processing plays an important role in the control of language...
Neural mechanisms of planning: a computational analysis using event-related fMRIJon M Fincham
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:3346-51. 2002..The implications of these results for the current model, as well as for our understanding of the neural mechanisms of planning and functional specialization of the prefrontal cortex, are discussed...
Reward-related decision-making in pediatric major depressive disorder: an fMRI studyErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1031-40. 2006..Depression is postulated to involve decreased activity in reward-related affective systems...
Information-processing modules and their relative modality specificityJohn R Anderson
Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Cogn Psychol 54:185-217. 2007..Different modules in the theory vary in the degree to which they are modality-specific and the degree to which they are involved in central versus peripheral cognitive processes...
The BOLD hemodynamic response in healthy agingHoward J Aizenstein
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:786-93. 2004..g., inclusion of low-significance and/or negative voxels) underscores the importance of ROI selection criteria in the interpretation of fMRI studies using elderly populations...
Research Grants
- 2/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications ConsortiumCameron Carter; Fiscal Year: 2009..Thus, we need to improve our methods for detecting and enhancing cognitive function in schizophrenia in order to help individuals with this illness lead more productive and fulfilling lives. ..
- 2/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications ConsortiumCameron S Carter; Fiscal Year: 2010..Thus, we need to improve our methods for detecting and enhancing cognitive function in schizophrenia in order to help individuals with this illness lead more productive and fulfilling lives. ..
- 2/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications ConsortiumCameron S Carter; Fiscal Year: 2010..Thus, we need to improve our methods for detecting and enhancing cognitive function in schizophrenia in order to help individuals with this illness lead more productive and fulfilling lives. ..
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF COGNITIVE DISABILITY IN SCHIZOPHRENIACameron Carter; Fiscal Year: 2007..It will also provide new insights into the pathophysiology and new targets for the treatment of impaired cognition in schizophrenia. ..
- Cognitive Neuroscience of SchizophreniaCameron Carter; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- Cognitive Neurogenetics of SchizophreniaCameron Carter; Fiscal Year: 2007..The work proposed in this application has the potential to have important implications for developing behavioral genetic tools to isolate the genes that cause schizophrenia. ..
- Brain-Based Measures Treatment Development of Impaired Cognition in SchizophreniaCameron Carter; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF COGNITIVE DISABILITY IN SCHIZOPHRENIACameron S Carter; Fiscal Year: 2010..It will also provide new insights into the pathophysiology and new targets for the treatment of impaired cognition in schizophrenia. ..
