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Species | ANGUS W (Contact) MACDONALDSummaryAffiliation: University of Minnesota Country: USA Publications
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Optimization of a goal maintenance task for use in clinical applicationsDori Henderson
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Schizophr Bull 38:104-13. 2012..These adjustments were designed to decrease administration time and/or improve reliability of the data...- Imaging genetic liability to schizophrenia: systematic review of FMRI studies of patients' nonpsychotic relativesAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:1142-62. 2009.... - Building a clinically relevant cognitive task: case study of the AX paradigmAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Schizophr Bull 34:619-28. 2008..The development of the expectancy AX paradigm continues, and future developments that may enhance its usefulness are also described... - 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... - Translational and developmental perspective on N-methyl-D-aspartate synaptic deficits in schizophreniaAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 18:853-76. 2006.... - 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.... - 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.... - 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.... - 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... - The legacy of "just the facts"Angus W MacDonald
University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Schizophr Res 131:1-3. 2011..We emphasize the importance of determining what facts are specific to the disorder - a particularly challenging endeavor - and the usefulness of various ways of quantifying these facts... - What we know: findings that every theory of schizophrenia should explainAngus W MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N426 Elliott Hall, 75 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Schizophr Bull 35:493-508. 2009.... - The dot pattern expectancy task: reliability and replication of deficits in schizophreniaJessica A H Jones
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychol Assess 22:131-41. 2010.... - Effects of varying the experimental design of a cognitive control paradigm on behavioral and functional imaging outcome measuresVina M Goghari
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:20-35. 2008..Thus, experiments measuring successive cognitive processes may have differential detection power for every event in a trial... - 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... - Persecutory delusions and the perception of trustworthiness in unfamiliar faces in schizophreniaKristen M Haut
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Psychiatry Res 178:456-60. 2010..Such findings underscore the importance of examining symptom-specific information when studying trust in patients with schizophrenia... - The neural basis of cognitive control: response selection and inhibitionVina M Goghari
Translational Research in Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 E River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Brain Cogn 71:72-83. 2009..This prefrontal network is recruited to a greater or lesser extent depending on specific task demands... - 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... - Regionally specific cortical thinning and gray matter abnormalities in the healthy relatives of schizophrenia patientsVina M Goghari
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:415-24. 2007.... - Limitations of true score variance to measure discriminating power: psychometric simulation studySeung Suk Kang
Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:300-6. 2010..Discriminating power depends on a complicated interaction of psychometric properties that is not well estimated solely by a test's true score variance... - 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... - 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... - 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...
Research Grants
- The Neuroanatomical Basis of Anti-Drug Media Messages: the Impact of EffectivenesAngus Macdonald; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- 5/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications ConsortiumAngus Macdonald; 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. ..
- 5/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications ConsortiumAngus W MacDonald; 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. ..
- 5/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications ConsortiumAngus W MacDonald; 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. ..