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Selected Articles by Past and Current Conference Speakers
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Alice Medalia, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Medalia, A., Revheim, N., and Casey, M. (2002). Remediation of problem-solving skills in schizophrenia: Evidence of a persistent effect. Schizophrenia Research, 57(2-3), 165-171.

Medalia, A., Revheim, N., and Casey, M. (2001). The remediation of problem-solving skills in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 27(2), 259-267.

Medalia, A., Revheim, N., and Casey, M. (2000). Remediation of memory disorders in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 30(6), 1451-1459.

Medalia, A. and Revheim, N. (1999a). Computer-assisted learning in psychiatric rehabilitation. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, 3, 77-97.

Medalia, A., Aluma, M., Tryon, W., and Merriam, A.E. (1998). Effectiveness of attention training in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 24, 147-152.

Richard Keefe, PhD
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center

Harvey, P.D., and Keefe, R.S.E. Studies of cognitive change in patients with schizophrenia following novel antipsychotic treatment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2001; 158: 176-184.

Keefe, R.S.E.¸ Goldberg, T.E., Harvey, P.D., Gold, J.M., Poe, M., Coughenour, L. The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia: Reliability, sensitivity, and comparison with a standard neurocognitive battery. Schizophrenia Research, 2004; 68(2-3): 283-297.

Keefe RSE. Missing the sweet spot: Disengagement in schizophrenia. Psychiatry, 2006; 3: 36-41.

Keefe RSE, Bilder RM, Davis SM, Harvey PD, Palmer BW, Gold JM, Meltzer HY, Green MF, Capuano G, Stroup TS, McEvoy JP, Swartz MS, Rosenheck RA, Perkins DO, Davis CE, Hsiao JK, and Lieberman JA for the CATIE Investigators and the Neurocognitive Working Group. Neurocognitive Effects of Antipsychotic Medications in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia in the CATIE Trial. Archives of General Psychiatry April, 2007 (in press).

Keefe RSE, Malhotra AK, Meltzer H, Kane JM, Buchanan RW, Murthy A, Sovel M, Li, C, Goldman R. Efficacy and safety of donepezil in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder: Significant placebo effects in a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial(Submitted to Neuropsychopharmacology).

Keefe RSE and Fenton WS. How should DSM-V criteria for schizophrenia include cognitive impairment? (Submitted to Schizophrenia Bulletin).

Keefe, RSE. On the Sweet Spot: Stalking the Effortless Present. Simon & Schuster Press, 2003

Matthew Kurtz, PhD
Institute of Living
Yale University School of Medicine

Kurtz, M.M., Wexler, B.E., & Bell, M.D. The Penn Conditional Exclusion Test: Relationship to performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and work function in patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. In press.

Kurtz, M.M., Moberg, P.J., Ragland, J.D., Gur, R.C., & Gur, R.E. Symptoms vs. neurocognitive test performance as predictors of psychosocial status in schizophrenia: A 1- and 4-year follow-up study. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In press.

Kurtz MM. Neurocognitive rehabilitation for schizophrenia. Current Psychiatry Reports. 5(4):303-10, 2003 Aug.

Kurtz, Matthew M; Moberg, Paul J; Gur, Ruben C; Gur, Raquel E. Approaches to cognitive remediation of neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia: A review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review. Vol 11(4) Dec 2001, 197-210

Kurtz, Matthew M; Moberg, Paul J; Mozley, Lyn Harper; Swanson, Charlie L; Gur, Ruben C; Gur, Raquel E. Effectiveness of an attention- and memory-training program on neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia. Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair. Vol 15(1) 2001, 75-80

Steven Silverstein, PhD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
University Behavioral HealthCare and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Silverstein, S. M., Spaulding, W. D., & Menditto, A. A. (2006). Schizophrenia: Advances in Evidence-based practice. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe & Huber.

Silverstein, S. M., Wong, M-H., Wilkniss, S. M., Bloch, A., Smith, T. E., Savitz, A., McCarthy, R., & Terkelsen, K. (2006). Behavioral Rehabilitation of the "Treatment-Refractory" Schizophrenia Patient: Conceptual Foundations, Interventions, Interpersonal Techniques, and Outcome Data. Psychological Services, 3, 145-169.

Silverstein, S. M., Wong, M-H., Solak, B. A., Smith, T. E., Wilkniss, S. M., Landa, Y., Goicochea, C., Carpiniello, K., Uhlhaas, P., Schenkel, L., & Savitz, A. (2005). Effectiveness of a two-phase cognitive rehabilitation intervention for severely impaired schizophrenia patients. Psychological Medicine, 35, 825-837.

Wong, M-H., & Silverstein, S. M. (2003). Coping with voices: Attention training for persistent auditory hallucinations in treatment refractory schizophrenia. Psychiatry, 66, 255-261.

Silverstein, S. M., Menditto, A. A., & Stuve, P. (2001). Shaping attention span: An operant conditioning procedure to improve neurocognition and functioning in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 27, 247-257.

Eric Granholm, PhD
VA San Diego Healthcare System
University of California, San Diego

Granholm E. Cadenhead K. Shafer KM. Filoteo JV. Lateralized perceptual organization deficits on the global-local task in schizotypal personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 111(1):42-52, 2002 Feb.

Granholm E. McQuaid JR. McClure FS. Pedrelli P. Jeste DV. A randomized controlled pilot study of cognitive behavioral social skills training for older patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 53(1-2):167-9, 2002.

Granholm E. Morris S. Asarnow RF. Chock D. Jeste DV. Accelerated age-related decline in processing resources in schizophrenia: evidence from pupillary responses recorded during the span of apprehension task. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 6(1):30-43, 2000 Jan.

Granholm E. Perry W. Filoteo JV. Braff D. Hemispheric and attentional contributions to perceptual organization deficits on the global-local task in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology. 13(2):271-81, 1999 Apr.

Granholm E. Chock D. Morris S. Pupillary responses evoked during verbal fluency tasks indicate semantic network dysfunction in schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology. 20(6):856-72, 1998 Dec.

Morris Bell, PhD, ABPP
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Yale University School of Medicine

Bell MD, Bryson G, Greig T, Corcoran C, Wexler B. Neurocognitive enhancement therapy with work therapy: effects on neuropsychological test performance. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001, 58, 763-768.

Bell MD, Fiszdon J, Bryson G, Wexler BE. Effects of Neurocognitive Enhancement Therapy in schizophrenia: normalization of memory performance. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, in press.

Fiszdon J, Bryson G, Wexler BE, Bell MD (2004). Durability of cognitive remediation training in schizophrenia: performance on two memory tasks at 6-month and 12-month follow-up. Psychiatry Research, 125, 1-7.

Bell MD, Bryson G, Wexler BE. Cognitive remediation of working memory deficits: durability of training effects in severely and less severely impaired schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2003, 107, 1-9.

Bell MD, Lysaker PH Clinical benefits of paid activity in schizophrenia: One year follow-up. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1997, 23, 317-328.

Deanna Barch, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis

Mathews, JR & Barch, DM (2004). Episodic memory for emotional and nonemotional words in schizophrenia. Cognition and Emotion, 18(6), 721-740.

Barch, DM & Carter CS (2005). Amphetamine improves cognitive function in medicated individuals with schizophrenia and healthy volunteers. Schizophrenia Research, 77, 43-58.

Barch DM. (2005). The relationships among cognition, motivation, and emotion in schizophrenia: how much and how little we know. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 31(4), 875-881.

Barch DM. (2005). The cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 321-353.

Elizabeth W. Twamley, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego

Twamley, E.W., Padin, D.S., Bayne, K.S., Narvaez, J.M., Williams, R.E., & Jeste, D.V. (2005). Work rehabilitation for older people with schizophrenia: A comparison of three approaches. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193, 596-601.

Twamley, E.W., Jeste, D.V., & Bellack, A.S. (2003). A review of cognitive training in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 29, 359-382.

Twamley, E.W., Jeste, D.V., & Lehman, A.F. (2003). Vocational rehabilitation in schizophrenia: A literature review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 515-523.

Twamley, E.W., Doshi, R.R., Nayak, G.V., Palmer, B.W., Golshan, S., Heaton, R.K., Patterson, T.L., & Jeste, D.V. (2002). Generalized cognitive impairments, ability to perform everyday tasks, and level of independence in community living situations of older patients with psychosis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 2013-2020.

Robert S. Kern, PhD
UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
VA VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education, & Clinical Center


Pope, J.W., & Kern, R.S. (2006). An "errorful" learning deficit in schizophrenia? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 101-110.

Kern, R.S., Green, M.F., Mitchell, S.S., Kopelowicz, A., Mintz, J., & Liberman, R.P. (2005). Extensions of errorless learning for social problem-solving deficits in schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 513-519.

Green, M.F., Kern, R.S., & Heaton, R.K. (2004). Longitudinal studies of cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia: Implications for MATRICS. Schizophrenia Research, 72, 41-51.

Kern, R.S., Green, M.F., Mintz, J., & Liberman, R.P. (2003). Does "errorless learning" compensate for neurocognitive impairments in work rehabilitation for schizophrenia patients? Psychological Medicine, 33, 433-442.

Kern, R.S., Liberman, R.P., Kopelowicz, A., Mintz, J., & Green, M.F. (2002). Applications of errorless learning for improving work performance in persons with schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 1921-1926.

Bruce Wexler, MD
Connecticut Mental Health Center
Yale University School of Medicine

Wexler BE. Anderson M. Fulbright RK. Gore JC. Preliminary evidence of improved verbal working memory performance and normalization of task-related frontal lobe activation in schizophrenia following cognitive exercises. American Journal of Psychiatry. 157(10):1694-7, 2000 Oct.

Wexler BE & Bell MD. Cognitive Remediation and Vocational Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2005, 31, 931-934.

Bell MD, Bryson, GJ, Greig TC, Fiszdon, JM, Wexler, BE . Neurocognitive Enhancement Therapy with Work Therapy: Productivity Outcomes at 6-month and 12-month Follow-up. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 2005, 42, 829-838.

Bell MD, Fiszdon J, Bryson G, Wexler BE. Effects of Neurocognitive Enhancement Therapy in schizophrenia: normalisation of memory performance. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2004, 9(3):199-211.

Bell MD, Bryson G, Greig T, Corcoran C, Wexler B. Neurocognitive enhancement therapy with work therapy: effects on neuropsychological test performance. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001, 58, 763-768.