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Turning it upside down: areas of preserved cognitive function in schizophreniaJames M Gold
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, PO Box 21247, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 19:294-311. 2009..The documentation of preserved cognitive function in schizophrenia may serve to sharpen hypotheses about the biological mechanisms that are implicated in the illness...
Deconstructing negative symptoms of schizophrenia: Avolition-apathy and diminished expression clusters predict clinical presentation and functional outcomeGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, P O Box 21247, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA Electronic address
J Psychiatr Res 47:783-90. 2013..However, it is currently unclear whether negative symptoms themselves are multi-faceted, and whether sub-groups of patients who display unique negative symptom profiles can be identified...
Factor structure of the Brief Negative Symptom ScaleGregory P Strauss
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Schizophr Res 142:96-8. 2012..These findings provide further support for the construct validity of the BNSS, and for the existence of these two negative symptom factors...
Next-generation negative symptom assessment for clinical trials: validation of the Brief Negative Symptom ScaleGregory P Strauss
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Schizophr Res 142:88-92. 2012..Given its brevity (13-items, 15-minute interview) and good psychometric characteristics, the BNSS can be considered a promising new instrument for use in clinical trials...
Negative symptoms and depression predict lower psychological well-being in individuals with schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Compr Psychiatry 53:1137-44. 2012..Implications for recovery-focused psychosocial programs are discussed...
Cognition-emotion interactions are modulated by working memory capacity in individuals with schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Schizophr Res 141:257-61. 2012..Thus, findings provide further evidence for normal evaluative response in schizophrenia, but clarify that these normal experiences may not hold when working memory demands are too high...
A new perspective on anhedonia in schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry and the Mary land Psychiatric Research Center, Unive rsity of Mary land School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Am J Psychiatry 169:364-73. 2012..The authors sought to resolve this paradox...
Differential patterns of premorbid social and academic deterioration in deficit and nondeficit schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Schizophr Res 135:134-8. 2012....
Deficits in positive reinforcement learning and uncertainty-driven exploration are associated with distinct aspects of negative symptoms in schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Biol Psychiatry 69:424-31. 2011..The current study examines whether deficits in reinforcement learning and uncertainty-driven exploration predict specific negative symptom domains...
Anticipatory vs. consummatory pleasure: what is the nature of hedonic deficits in schizophrenia?Gregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Psychiatry Res 187:36-41. 2011..74). These findings suggest that additional studies are needed using the TEPS, as well as other measures, to determine the nature of anhedonia in individuals with schizophrenia...
Patterns of emotional experience in schizophrenia: differences in emotional response to visual stimuli are associated with clinical presentation and functional outcomeGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Schizophr Res 128:117-23. 2011..Findings are discussed in relation to current theories of emotional experience in schizophrenia...
Attentional disengagement from emotional stimuli in schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Schizophr Res 131:219-23. 2011..Abnormalities in disengaging attention from unpleasant stimuli may thus play a critical role in the formation and maintenance of both negative symptoms and trait negative affect in individuals with schizophrenia...
Patients with schizophrenia demonstrate inconsistent preference judgments for affective and nonaffective stimuliGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:1295-304. 2011..These data suggest that individuals with SZ are impaired in developing or maintaining nuanced representations of the different attributes of a stimulus, thus making stimuli of similar general value easily confusable...
Impaired facial affect labeling and discrimination in patients with deficit syndrome schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Schizophr Res 118:146-53. 2010....
Posttraumatic stress disorder and negative symptoms of schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:603-10. 2011..These findings suggest that DS patients are at a uniquely low risk for PTSD...
Olfactory hedonic judgment in patients with deficit syndrome schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Schizophr Bull 36:860-8. 2010..Findings suggest that the DS is characterized by a unique pattern of olfactory valence judgment that is characterized by abnormalities in processing positively valenced stimuli...
Periods of recovery in deficit syndrome schizophrenia: a 20-year multi-follow-up longitudinal studyGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Schizophr Bull 36:788-99. 2010..Findings provide further support for the validity of the deficit syndrome concept and suggest that deficit status is characterized by a more persistently impaired course of illness and particularly poor long-term prognosis...
Automatic affective processing impairments in patients with deficit syndrome schizophreniaGregory P Strauss
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
Schizophr Res 102:76-87. 2008..Results are generally consistent with a mood-congruent processing abnormality and suggest that impaired automatic processing may be core to diminished emotional experience symptoms exhibited in deficit syndrome patients...
Neurocognitive function in schizophrenia with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorderLisa A Duke
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154 5030, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 32:737-51. 2010..Results of this study do not support the idea that the presence of comorbid PTSD in SZ results in a substantial increase in cognitive impairment...
Negative symptoms and the failure to represent the expected reward value of actions: behavioral and computational modeling evidenceJames M Gold
Department of Psychiatry, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 69:129-38. 2012..Negative symptoms are a core feature of schizophrenia, but their pathogenesis remains unclear. Negative symptoms are defined by the absence of normal function. However, there must be a productive mechanism that leads to this absence...
Optimizing vs. matching: response strategy in a probabilistic learning task is associated with negative symptoms of schizophreniaZuzana Kasanova
Department of Psychiatry, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, PO Box 21247, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
Schizophr Res 127:215-22. 2011..These data provide a rare example of a greater clinical impairment being associated with better behavioral performance...
Test-retest reliability of standard and emotional stroop tasks: an investigation of color-word and picture-word versionsGregory P Strauss
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
Assessment 12:330-7. 2005..The findings have important implications for clinical and experimental use of standard and emotional Stroop tasks...
Factor analytic support for social cognition as a separable cognitive domain in schizophreniaDaniel N Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89154 5030, USA
Schizophr Res 93:325-33. 2007..Results provide support for the validity of the SC factor as a measure of social cognition in schizophrenia, and demonstrate that at least some aspects of social cognition represent separable cognitive domains in schizophrenia...
The brief negative symptom scale: psychometric propertiesBrian Kirkpatrick
Department of Psychiatry, Texas A and M College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA
Schizophr Bull 37:300-5. 2011..93 for the BNSS total score and values of 0.89-0.95 for individual subscales. Comparisons with positive symptoms and other negative symptom instruments supported the discriminant and concurrent validity of the instrument...
Sex differences in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: a 20-year longitudinal study of psychosis and recoveryLinda S Grossman
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Compr Psychiatry 49:523-9. 2008..Sex differences in this sample were specifically not attributable to differences in age of onset or premorbid developmental achievements...
Sex differences in visual attention to erotic and non-erotic stimuliAmy D Lykins
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 455030, Las Vegas, NV 89154 5030, USA
Arch Sex Behav 37:219-28. 2008..This interpretation assumes there is an erotic valence to images of the sex to which one orients, even when the image is not explicitly erotic. It also assumes a relationship between visual attention and erotic valence...
Neuropsychological and behavioral measures of attention assess different constructs in children with traumatic brain injurySally J Barney
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154 5030, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 25:1145-57. 2011..This minimal correspondence suggests that neuropsychological and behavioral measures assess different aspects of attentional disturbances in children with TBI...
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...
Positive and negative emotions uniquely capture attentionGregory P Strauss
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Appl Neuropsychol 16:144-9. 2009..Findings have important implications, as they suggest that the attentional system is biased to detect emotional information that is most adaptive under specific circumstances...
Differences in developmental changes in academic and social premorbid adjustment between males and females with schizophreniaDaniel N Allen
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Psychology, United States Electronic address
Schizophr Res 146:132-7. 2013..Findings suggest important differences between males and females in the course of premorbid deterioration prior to onset of schizophrenia...
Hemispheric contributions to nonverbal abstract reasoning and problem solvingDaniel N Allen
Neuropsychology Research Program, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154 5030, USA
Neuropsychology 21:713-20. 2007....
Differential patterns of premorbid academic and social deterioration in patients with schizophreniaDaniel N Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 5030, USA
Schizophr Res 75:389-97. 2005..When considered together with results from other studies, the present findings suggest that deterioration in premorbid academic functioning from early to late adolescence may be a unique premorbid marker for schizophrenia...
Effects of adjunctive intranasal oxytocin on olfactory identification and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia: results from a randomized double blind placebo controlled pilot studyMary R Lee
Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Schizophr Res 145:110-5. 2013....
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....
