Cognition in schizophrenia: core psychological and neural mechanisms

DM Barch, A Ceaser - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
The challenge in understanding cognitive impairment in schizophrenia is that people with
this illness have deficits in an array of domains. Here, we briefly review evidence regarding …

Effort-cost decision-making in psychosis and depression: could a similar behavioral deficit arise from disparate psychological and neural mechanisms?

AJ Culbreth, EK Moran, DM Barch - Psychological medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
Motivational impairment is a common feature of both depression and psychosis; however,
the psychological and neural mechanisms that give rise to motivational impairment in these …

Characterizing thalamo-cortical disturbances in schizophrenia and bipolar illness

A Anticevic, MW Cole, G Repovs, JD Murray… - Cerebral …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is a devastating neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with distributed brain
dysconnectivity that may involve large-scale thalamo-cortical systems. Incomplete …

Cognitive control, goal maintenance, and prefrontal function in healthy aging

JL Paxton, DM Barch, CA Racine, TS Braver - Cerebral cortex, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Cognitive control impairments in healthy older adults may partly reflect disturbances in the
ability to actively maintain goal-relevant information, a function that depends on the …

Improving prefrontal cortex function in schizophrenia through focused training of cognitive control

BG Edwards, DM Barch, TS Braver - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Previous research has shown that individuals with schizophrenia show deficits in cognitive
control functions thought to depend on the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), and its interactions …

Impaired emotion regulation in schizophrenia: evidence from event-related potentials

WP Horan, G Hajcak, JK Wynn, MF Green - Psychological medicine, 2013 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAlthough several aspects of emotion seem to be intact in schizophrenia, there is
emerging evidence that patients show an impaired ability to adaptively regulate their …

Effects of environmental support and strategy training on older adults' use of context.

JL Paxton, DM Barch, M Storandt… - Psychology and …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Age-related cognitive differences may be due, in part, to difficulties using task-relevant
context in a proactive manner. Two studies evaluated different methods for increasing older …

Effort-based decision-making in schizophrenia

AJ Culbreth, EK Moran, DM Barch - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Motivational deficits in schizophrenia may arise, in part, due to reduced
effort.•Studies show striatal and cingulate activation are associated with effort deficits.•Future …

The neural circuitry supporting goal maintenance during cognitive control: a comparison of expectancy AX-CPT and dot probe expectancy paradigms

P Lopez-Garcia, TA Lesh, T Salo, DM Barch… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2016 - Springer
Goal maintenance is an aspect of cognitive control that has been identified as critical for
understanding psychopathology according to criteria of the NIMH-sponsored CNTRICS …

CNTRICS final task selection: working memory

DM Barch, MG Berman, R Engle, JH Jones… - Schizophrenia …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The third meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition
in Schizophrenia (CNTRICS) was focused on selecting promising measures for each of the …