CURRICULUM VITAAlex S. Cohen, Ph.D.

Department of PsychologyLouisiana State University

206 Audubon HallBaton Rouge, LA. 70803Email: acohen@lsu.eduPhone: (225) 578.7017

Fax: (225) 578.4125

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Birthplace: Sacramento, CA Home Address: Baton Rouge, LA Citizenship: United States of America Birth date: July 19, 1973

CLINICAL LICENSURE

License # 1033 State of Louisiana – Granted by the Louisiana Board of Examiners of Psychology

APPOINTMENTSHIPS:

09/2013 – Present Adjunct Professor Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA

06/2013 – Present Executive Board National Alliance on Mental Illness, Baton Rouge, LA

08/2012 – Present Associate Professor Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology

08/2010 – Present Adjunct Professor Louisiana State University Health Sciences University

08/2006 – 2012 Assistant Professor Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology

06/2004 – 06/2006 Research Associate University of Maryland, College ParkMentor: Jack Blanchard, Ph.D.

EDUCATION:

08/1998 – 06/2004 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology Kent State UniversityMentor: Nancy Docherty, Ph.D.Predoctoral clinical internship: University of Maryland, School of Medicine.

08/1993 – 06/1998 B.S. Psychology Portland State University Graduated with Honors

FUNDING:

Under Review NIMH R21: NIMH – Understanding computationally-derived communicative abnormalities in serious mental illness across temporal and social-contextual conditions (~ $390,000 total).Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2015 – 2019 Helse Nord (Northern Norway’s Health Authority). Reducing misdiagnosis and developing critical objective phenotypes of severe mental illness (~ $390,000). Co-Investigator/Mentor: Alex S Cohen

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2014 – 2017 Norwegian Research Council. Diagnostic Support System Development for the Monitoring of Psychosis (~ $1,300,000 total). Co--Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2014 – 2015 Minimizing Driver Errors: Detecting Unexpected Targets in Familiar Environments. (~ $56,532 total).Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2014 – 2017 Psychological Externship: Our Lady of the Lake Psychiatry Dept. (~$254,000)Contract: Alex S Cohen, Julie Buckner and Mary Lou Kelly

2014 - 2015 BOR Enhancement – Psychology Department EEG Neuroscience Lab ($102,811)Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2008 – 2017 Psychological Externship: East Louisiana State Hospital. (~$150,000)Contract: Alex S Cohen and Johnny Matson

2010 – 2013 NIMH R03 – 2011 – 2013: NIMH R03 (1R03MH092622-01) – Identifying the Vocal Markers of Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders (~ $225,000 total).Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2008 - 2013 NIMH (1P50MH082999-01). Centers for Intervention Development and Applied Research (CIDAR). Principal Investigator – William Carpenter.

2008 - 2011 Louisiana Board of Regents Grant – Understanding Negative Symptoms Using Novel Technologies (~ $100,000 total).Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2010 Manship Summer Research Fellowship: Optimizing Computer-Based Measures of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2007-2008 Faculty Development Grant: Computerized Assessment of Negative SymptomsPrincipal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

2007 Council On Research Summer Stipend: Computerized Assessment of Negative Symptoms in Individuals At-Risk for SchizophreniaPrincipal Investigator: Alex S Cohen

FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS:

2016 LSU Rainmaker Mid-Career Scholar award2012 “Faces of the Future” – Society for Research in Psychopathology2012 Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member2007 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research Young Investigator Award2003 Kent State University Grad. Student Senate (GSS) - Research achievement award.2003 Kent State University Applied Psychology Clinic (APC) - Publication award.2002 Friedman Fellowship for “Outstanding contributions to the field of mental health”.2002 Kent State University APC - Research fellowship award.

BOOK CHAPTERS:Italics denote a graduate student under my supervision

1. Le, Thanh, Mitchell Kyle R., Schwartz, Elana, McGovern, Jessica, Cohen, Alex S. (In Press). Schizophrenia. In Volume III: Clinical Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. Edited by: C. Steven Richards and Lee M. Cohen. Wiley

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2. McGovern, Jessica, Mitchell, Kyle, Cohen, Alex S. (In Press). Schizophrenia. In the SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology.

3. Cohen, Alex S., Macaulay, Rebecca, Mitchell, Kyle R., Ory, Justin, Schwartz, Elana (2016). Severe Psychopathology. In Handbook of Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism.

4. Levy, Ken, Cohen, Alex S. (2015). Commentary: Mental illness, dangerousness and involuntary commitment. Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, intersections and New Perspectives. Eds. Mosely and Gala.

5. Macaulay, Rebecca M., McGovern, Jessica E., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Understanding anhedonia: The role of perceived control. Anhedonia: A Comprehensive Handbook Volume I. Ritsner, Michael; New York, NY. US. Springer.

6. Cohen, Alex S., Callaway, Callas A., Auster, Tracey (2014). Schizophrenia. The Oxford Handbook of Depression and Comorbidity. Steven Richards and Mike O’Hara; Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.

7. Blanchard, Jack J., Cohen, Alex S., Carreno, Jay. (2007). Schizophrenia. in Emotion and Psychopathology: Bridging Affective and Clinical Science. Rottenberg, Jonathan; Johnson, Sheri L.; Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2007. pp. 103-122.

PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:

8. Cohen, Alex S., Le, Thanh P., Fedechko, Taylor, L., Elvevåg, Brita. (In Press). Can RDoC help find order in thought disorder? Schizophrenia Bulletin.

9. Elvevåg, Brita, Foltz, Peter, Rosentstein, Mark, Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon, De Deyne, Simon, Cohen, Alex S. (In Press). Thoughts about disordered thinking: Measuring and quantifying the laws of order and disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

10. Cohen, Alex S, Mitchell, Kyle, Strauss, Gregory P, Blanchard, Jack J, Buchanan, Robert, McMahon, Robert, Carpenter, William. (In Press). Editorial Letter: The effects of oxytocin and galantamine on objectively-defined vocal and facial expression: data from the CIDAR study. Schizophrenia Research.

11. Cohen, Alex S., Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo (In Press). Towards a phenotypic core of schizotypy: convergence and divergence of two psychometrically-supported measures. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology.

12. Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, Javier Ortuño-Sierra, Alicia Pérez de Álbeniz, Alex Cohen. (In Press). A latent profile analysis of schizotypal dimensions: associations with mental distress, psychosis proneness, hypomanic experiences and hedonic capacity.

13. Ecker, A. H., Cohen, Alex. S., & Buckner, J. D. (2017). Overestimation of close friend drinking problems in the prediction of one's own drinking problems. Addictive behaviors, 64, 107-110.

14. Cohen, Alex S., Mitchell, Kyle R., Docherty, Nancy M., Horan, William P. (2016). Vocal expression in schizophrenia: Less than meets the ear. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 125(2). 299-309

15. Cohen, Alex S., Callaway, Dallas A., Mitchell, Kyle R., Larsen, Jeff T., Strauss, Gregory P. (2016). A temporal examination of co-activated emotion valence networks in schizophrenia and schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research. 170(2-3). 322-329

16. Fonseca-Pedrero, Eduardo, Cohen, Alex S. (2016). Dimensional structure and measurement invariance of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief Revised (SPQ-BR) across American and Spanish samples. Journal of Personality Disorders.

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17. Badcock, J. C., Panton, K., Cohen, Alex., & Badcock, D. R. (2016). Both harmful and (some) helpful behaviours from others are associated with increased expression of schizotypal traits. Psychiatry research, 239, 308-314.

18. Elvevåg, B., Cohen, Alex. S., Wolters, M. K., Whalley, H. C., Gountouna, V. E., Kuznetsova, K. A., ... & Nicodemus, K. K. (2016). An examination of the language construct in NIMH's research domain criteria: Time for reconceptualization!. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 171(6), 904-919.

19. Badcock, J. C., Barkus, E., Cohen, A. S., Bucks, R., & Badcock, D. R. (2016). Loneliness and schizotypy are distinct constructs, separate from general psychopathology. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.

20. Cohen, Alex S., Renshaw, Tyler, Mitchell, Kyle, Chun, Yunjung. (2015). A psychometric investigation of “Macroscopic” speech measures for clinical and psychological science. Behavior Research Methods. 1-12

21. Cohen, Alex S., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Donovan, Neila J., Brown, Caitlin, Morrison, Sean C. (2015). Vocal acoustic analysis as a biometric indicator of information processing: implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Psychiatry Research. 226(1). 235-241.

22. Cohen, Alex S., Park, Sohee, Mohr, Christine, Ettinger, Ulrich, Chan, Raymond (2015). Schizotypy as an organizing framework for social and affective sciences. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41. 427-435.

23. Ettinger, Ulrich, Mohr, Christine, Gooding, Diane D., Cohen, Alex S., Rapp, Alexander, Park, Sohee. (2015). Cognition and Brain Function in Schizotypy. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41. 417-426

24. Pow, Joni. L., Baumeister, Alan. A., Hawkins, Michael. F., Cohen, Alex. S., & Garand, J. C. (2015). Deinstitutionalization of American Public Hospitals for the Mentally Ill Before and After the Introduction of Antipsychotic Medications. Harvard review of psychiatry, 23(3), 176-187

25. Minor, Kyle, Luther, Lauren, Auster, Tracey, Marggraf, Matthew, Cohen, Alex S (2015). Category fluency in psychometric schizotypy: How altering emotional valence and cognitive load affects performance. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 20(6) 542-550

26. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey E., Callaway, Dallas, MaCaulay, Rebecca, Minor, Kyle. (2014). Neurocognitive underpinnings of language disorder: Contrasting schizophrenia and mood disorders. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 5(4). 492-502

27. MacAulay, Rebbeca, McGovern, Jessica., Cohen, Alex S. (2014) Self-Conscious Emotions' Role in Functional Outcomes within Clinical Populations. Psychiatry Research. 216. 17-23.

28. Cohen, Alex S., McGovern, Jessica E., Dinzeo, Thomas, Covington, Michael (2014). Speech deficits in severe mental illness: A cognitive resource issue?. Schizophrenia Research. 160. 173-179.

29. Cohen, Alex S., Mitchell, Kyle. Brita Elvavag. (2014). What do we really know about blunted vocal affect and alogia? A meta-analysis of objective assessments. Schizophrenia Research. 159(2-3). 533-538.

30. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey R., McGovern, Jessica E., MaCaulay, Rebecca (2014). The normalities and abnormalities associated with speech in schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research. 160. 169-172.

31. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey R., McGovern, Jessica E. (2014). Illusory Superiority and Schizotypal Personality: Explaining the Discrepancy Between Subjective/Objective Psychopathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. 5(4). 413-418.

32. Cohen, Alex S., Elvevaag, Brita (2014). Automated computerized analysis of speech in psychiatric disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 27(3). 203-209.

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33. Musso, Mandi, Auster, Tracey R., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Using the MOCA to measure neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research. 220. 664-668

34. Minor, Kyle S., Firmin, Ruth L., Bonfils, Kelsey A., Chun, Charlotte, A, Buckner, J.D., Cohen, Alex S (2014). Predicting creativity: the role of psychometric schizotypy and cannabis use in divergent thinking. Psychiatry Research. 220. 205-210,

35. Bedwell, Jeffrey S., Trachik, Benjamin J., Cohen, Alex S., Deptula, Andrew E., Mitchell, Jonathan C. (2014). Speech Prosody Abnormalities and Specific Dimensional Schizotypy Features: Are Relationships Limited to Males? Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 202(10). 745-751.

36. Morrison, Sean C., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). The moderating effects of perceived intentionality: exploring the relationships between ideas of reference, paranoia and social anxiety in schizotypy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 19(6). 527-539.

37. MacAulay, Rebecca, K, Brown, Laura A., Kyle M, Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Conceptualizing schizotypal ambivalence: Factor structure and its relationships. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 202(11). 793-801.

38. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey MacAulay, Rebecca, McGovern, Jessica. (2014). The paradox of schizotypy: resemblance to prolonged severe mental illness in subjective but not objective quality of life. Psychiatry Research. 217(3). 185-190

39. Auster, Tracey, Brown, Laura A., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Objective and Subjective Olfactory Ratings across the Schizophrenia-Spectrum. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. 77(1). 57-66.

40. Callaway, Dallas A., Cohen, Alex S., Matthews, Russell A (2014). Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire – Brief Revised: Psychometric replication and extension. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. 5(1). 32-38.

41. Gooding, Diane, C., Cohen, Alex S., Pflum, Madeline, J. (2014). Hedonic Capacity in Schizotypy: Evidence for the criterion validity of the ACIPS. Comprehensive Psychiatry.

42. Renshaw, Tyler L., Cohen, Alex S. (2014) Further validation of the two-continuua model of mental health: life satisfaction as a key indicator of college student functioning. Social Indicators Research. 117(1). 319-334

43. Cohen, Alex S., Morrison, Sean C., Callaway, Dallas. (2013). Computerized facial analysis for understanding constricted/blunted affect: initial feasibility, reliability and validity data. Schizophrenia Research.148-1/3. 111-116,

44. MacAulay, Rebecca, Cohen, Alex S. (2013). Affecting Coping: Does neurocognition predict approach and avoidant coping strategies within schizophrenia spectrum disorders? Psychiatry Research. 209-2. 136-141.

45. Morrison, Sean, Brown, Laura A., Cohen, Alex S. (2013). A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Social Cognition in Schizotypy. Psychiatry Research. 210-3. 1014-1019.

46. Stewart, Diana, Vinci, Christine, Adams, Claire, Cohen, Alex S., Copeland, Amy L (2013). Smoking Topography and Outcome Expectancies among Individuals with Schizotypy. Psychiatry Research. 205, 205-212

47. Cohen, Alex S., Kim, Yungjung, Najolia, Gina M. (2013). Psychiatric Symptom versus Neurocognitive Correlates of Diminished Expressivity in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders. Schizophrenia Research.146, 249-253

48. Chun, Charlotte A., Minor, Kyle S., Cohen, Alex S (2013). Neurocognition in psychometrically-defined schizotypy: We are NOT measuring the “right stuff”. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. 19-3, 324-339.

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49. Cohen, Alex S., Callaway, Dallas A, Najolia, Gina M, Larsen, Jeff T, Strauss, Gregory P. (2012). On risk and reward: state anhedonia in psychometrically-defined schizotypy but not schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121-2. 407-415.

50. Baumeister, Alan A., Hawkins, Mike F, Pow, Joni L, Cohen, Alex S., (2012). Prevalence and incidence of severe mental illness in the United States: An historical overivew. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 142, 65-70

51. Cohen, Alex S. Morrison, Sean, Brown, Laura A., Minor, Kyle M (2012). Towards a cognitive resource limitations model of diminished expressivity in schizotypy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121-1. 109-118.

52. Llerena, Katiah, Strauss, Gregory P, Cohen, Alex S., (2012) Looking at the other side of the coin: A Meta-analysis of self-reported emotional arousal in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 142-1/3. 65-70

53. Cohen, Alex S., Najolia, Gina M, Kim, Yungjung, Dinzeo, Thomas J. (2012). On the boundaries of blunt affect and alogia: Expressive deficits as potential research domain criteria. Schizophrenia Research. 140-1/3. 41-45

54. Cohen, Alex S., Brown, Laura A., Auster, Tracey L. (2012). Clarifying the nature of olfaction deficits in the schizophrenia-prone: "clinical high-risk state" versus "vulnerability". Schizophrenia Research. 139-1/3. 262-263

55. Cohen, Alex S, Couture, Shannon A, Blanchard, Jack J. (2012). Neuropsychological functioning and social anhedonia: Three-year follow-up data from a longitudinal community high risk study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 46-7. 898-904.

56. Najolia, Gina M, Buckner, Julia D., Cohen, Alex S. (2012). Cannabis use and schizotypy: The role of social anxiety. Psychiatry Research. 189-2. 233-238.

57. Cohen, Alex S., Brown, Laura, Auster, Tracey (2012). Olfaction, “Olfiction” and the Schizophrenia-Spectrum. Schizophrenia Research. 135. 152-157

58. Cohen, Alex S., Najolia, Gina M., Brown, Laura A., Minor, Kyle S. (2011). The state-trait disjunction of anhedonia in schizophrenia: Potential affective, cognitive and social-based mechanisms. Clinical Psychology Review. 31-3. 440-448. 

59. Minor, Kyle S., Cohen, Alex S. (2012) The Role of Atypical Semantic Activation and Stress in odd speech: Implications for individuals with psychometrically defined schizotypy. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 46-9. 1231-1236.

60. Cohen, Alex S. Hong, S. Lee (2011). Understanding Constricted Affect in Schizotypy through Computerized Prosodic Analysis. Journal of Personality Disorders. 25-4. 448-491

61. Vigna, Julia V., Reuther, Erin T., Cohen, Alex S., (2011). The Comorbidity of Psychotic Symptoms and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Evidence for a Specifier in DSM-V. Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses. 5-3. 147-154.

62. Strauss, Gregory, Gold, Jim, Cohen, Alex S. (2011). Response to “Anticipatory vs. consummatory pleasure: what is the nature of hedonic deficits in schizophrenia?”. Psychiatry Research 187 – 1/2. 36-41

63. Najolia, Gina M, Cohen, Alex S. (2011). A laboratory study of affectivity in Schizotypy: Subjective and Lexical analysis. Psychiatry Research. 189-2. 233-238.

64. Blanchard, Jack J., Collins, Lindsay M., Aghevli, Minu, Leung, Winnie W., Cohen, Alex S. (2011). Social Anhedonia and Schizotypy in a Community Sample: The Maryland Longitudinal Study of Schizotypy. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 37-3. 587-602

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65. Cohen, Alex S, Buckner, Julia D, Najolia, Gina M, Stewart, Diana W. (2011). Cannabis and Psychometrically-Defined Schizotypy: Use, Problems and Treatment Considerations. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45-4. 548-554.

66. Cohen, Alex S., Najolia, Gina M. (2011). Birth Characteristics and Schizotypy: Evidence of a Potential “Second Hit”. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45-7. 955 – 961

67. Cohen, Alex S., Beck, Melissa R., Najolia, Gina M., Brown, Laura A. (2011). Affective disturbances in psychometrically defined schizotypy across direct, but not indirect assessment modes. Schizophrenia Research. 128 – 1-3. 136-142.

68. Minor, Kyle S., Cohen, Alex S., Weber, Christopher, Brown, Laura A. (2011). The relationship between atypical semantic activation and odd speech in schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research. 126-1-3. 144-149

69. Cohen, Alex S., Matthews, Russell, Najolia, Gina, M., Brown, Laura A. (2010). Towards a more Psychometrically-Sound Brief Measure of Schizotypy: Improving the SPQ-B. Journal of Personality Disorders. 24. 516 - 537

70. Cohen, Alex S., Minor, Kyle S. (2010). Emotional Experience in Patients with Schizophrenia Re-revisited: Meta-analysis of Laboratory Studies. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 36-1, 143-150

71. Cohen, Alex S., Hong, Lee S., Guevara, Alvero. (2010) Understanding Emotional Expression Using Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech: Refining the Methodology. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 41-2, 150-157

72. Cohen, Alex S., Beck, Melissa R, Najolia, Gina, Brown, Laura A (2010). Decoupling Implicit Measures of Pleasant and Unpleasant Social Attitudes. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 41-1, 260-268

73. Brown, Laura A., Cohen, Alex S., (2010) Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizotypy: The Role of Accuracy and Social Cognitive Bias. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. 16-3, 474-483

74. Cohen, Alex S., Brown, Laura A. Minor, Kyle S. (2010). The Psychiatric Symptomatology of Deficit Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis. Schizophrenia Research. 118-1-3, 122-127

75. Stewart, Diana W., Cohen, Alex S., Copeland, Amy L. (2010). Schizotypy and Cigarette Smoking in a Non-clinical Sample of Young Adults. Psychiatry Research. 179-1, 113-115

76. DeWall, C. N., Buckner, J. D., Lambert, N. L., Cohen, A., & Fincham, F. D. (2010). Bracing for the worst, but behaving the best: Social anxiety, hostility, and aggression. Journal of Anxiety Disorders . 24-2, 260-268

77. Cohen, Alex S., Matthews, Russell. (2010). Primary and Secondary Negative Schizotypal Traits in a Large Non-clinical Sample. Personality and Individual Differences. 49-5, 419-424

78. Cohen, Alex S, Minor, Kyle S., Najolia, Gina. (2010). A framework for understanding experiential deficits in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research. 178-1, 10-16

79. Minor, Kyle S, Cohen, Alex S. (2010) Affective reactivity of Speech Disturbances in Schizotypy. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 44-2, 99-105

80. Buckner, Julia D., Ecker, Anthony H., Cohen, Alex S., (2010). Mental health problems and interest in Marijuana treatment among marijuana-using college students. Addictive Behaviors. 45-9, 826-833

81. Cohen, Alex S., Collins, Lindsay M., Mann, Monica C., Forbes, Courtney B., Blanchard, Jack J. (2010). Schizotypal, Schizoid and Paranoid Characteristics in the Parents of Social Anhedonics. Psychiatry Research. 178-1, 79-83

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82. Cohen, Alex S., Iglesias, Bianca, Minor, Kyle S. (2009). The neurocognitive underpinnings of diminished expressivity in schizotypy: What the voice reveals. Schizophrenia Research. 109: 38-45

83. Cohen, Alex S, Davis, Thompson E III. (2009). Quality of Life Across the Schizotypy Spectrum: Findings from a Large Healthy Adult Sample. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 50: 408-414

84. Cohen, Alex s., Minor, Kyle S., Najolia, Gina., Hong, Siang L. (2009). A Laboratory-based Procedure for Measuring Emotional Expression from Natural Speech. Behavior Research Methods. 41. 192 - 203

85. Cohen, Alex S., St. Hillaire, Annie, Aakres, Jennifer M, Docherty, Nancy M. (2009). Understanding Anhedonia in Schizophrenia through Lexical Analysis of Natural Speech. Cognition and Emotion. 569 - 586

86. Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Docherty, Nancy M. (2009). Attribution Biases in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Clinical and Functional Impairments. Psychopathology. 42 (1),   40 - 46

87. Dinzeo, Thomas J., Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M., Docherty, Nancy M. (2008). Emotional Arousability in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Emotional and Physiological Reactivity and Symptom Severity. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 117-6. 432-439.

88. St. Hillaire, Annie, Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (2008). Emotional Word Use in the Conversational Speech of Schizophrenia Patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 13. 343-356.

89. Cohen, Alex S., Minor, Kyle S., Baillie, Lauren S., Dahir, Amanda (2008). Clarifying the Linguistic Signature: Measuring Personality from Natural Speech. Journal of Personality Assessment. 90: 559-563

90. Cohen, Alex S., Alpert, Murray, Nienow, Tasha M., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Docherty, Nancy M. (2008). Computerized Analysis of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 42 (10), p.827-836,

91. Cohen, Alex S., Saperstein, Alice M., Gold, Jim., Kirkpatrick, Brian, Carpenter, William T. Jr., Buchanan, Robert W., (2007). Neuropsychology of the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia: New Data and Meta-analysis of Findings to Date. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 33: 1201-1212

92. Cohen, Alex S., Leung, Winnie W., Saperstein, Alice M., Blanchard, Jack J., (2006). Neuropsychological Functioning and Social Anhedonia: Results from a Community High Risk Study. Schizophrenia Research. 85, 132-141

93. Nienow, Tasha M., Docherty, Nancy M., Cohen, Alex S., Dinzeo, Thomas J., (2006). Neurocognition, Social Perception, and Social Competence: What is the Nature of the Relationship? Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 115-3, 408-417

94. Cohen, Alex S., Junginger, John. (2006). A Working Typology of Delusions. Schizophrenia Research. 83-2/3, 293-295

95. Cohen, Alex S., Forbes, Courtney B., Mann, Monica C., Blanchard, Jack J. (2006). Specific Cognitive Deficits and Differential Domains of Social Functioning Impairment in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 81-2/3, 227-238

96. Blanchard, Jack J., Cohen, Alex S. (2006). The structure of negative symptoms within schizophrenia: Implications for Assessment. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 32-3, 238-245

97. Cohen, Alex S., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Nienow, Tasha. M., Smith, Doug A., Singer, Beth, Docherty, Nancy M. (2005). Diminished emotionality and social functioning in schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous & Mental Diseases. 193-12, 796-802

98. Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy. (2005). Effects of Positive Emotion on Speech Disorder in Patients with Schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous an d Mental Diseases.

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99. Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (2005). Syndrome vs. Symptoms Approaches to Resolving Heterogeneity of Neuropsychological Functioning in Schizophrenia. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 17-3, 384-390.

100. Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (2004). Deficit syndrome vs. Negative Syndrome in Schizophrenia: Prediction of Attentional Impairment. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 30-4, 827 – 835.

101. Dinzeo, Thomas J., Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M., & Docherty, Nancy M. (2004).  Stress and Arousability in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 71-1, 127 – 135.

102. Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (2004). Affective Reactivity of Speech and Emotional Experience in Patients with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 69-1, 7 – 14.

103. Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M, Dinzeo, Thomas J, Docherty, Nancy M. (2003). Self-Reported Stress and the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. 66-4, 308 – 316.

104. Docherty, Nancy M., Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M, Dinzeo, Thomas, Dangelmaier, Ruth. (2003). Stability of Schizophrenic Formal Thought Disorder and Referential Communication Disturbances. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 112-3, 469 – 475.

105. Docherty, Nancy M, Rhinewine, Joseph, Nienow, Tasha M, Cohen, Alex S. (2001). Affective Reactivity of Language Symptoms, Startle Responding, and Inhibition in Schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110-1, 194 – 198.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION OR IN PREPARATION:Italics denote a graduate student under my supervision

1. Cohen, Alex S. Beck, Melissa R., Mitchell, Kyle., Hicks, Jason. (Under Review.) The subjective-objective paradox in psychometrically-defined schizotypy: What it is and why it is important.

2. Ecker, Anthony H., Cohen, Alex S., Buckner, Julia D. (Under review). Multi- informant Investigation of College Student Drinking: The Role of Drinking Motives and Overestimation of Friends’ Drinking.

3. Le, Thanh., Najolia, Gina, Minor, Kyle, Cohen, Alex. (Under Review). The effect of limited cognitive resources on semantic disturbances in serious mental illness.

4. Walsh, Hannah C., McGovern, Jessica E., Heurtin, Paige L, Cohen, Alex S (Under Review). Hostile social cognitive biases in patients with serious mental illness

5. Marggraf, Matthew, Cohen, Alex S, Davis, Beshaun J., DeCrescenzo, Paula, Bair, Natasha, and Minor. Kyle S. Semantic coherence in psychometric schizotypy: An investigation using latent semantic analysis.

6. Cohen, Alex, S., Mitchell, Kyle, Schwartz, Elana, Elvavag, Brita, Bernstein, Jared, Foltz, Peter. (In Prep). The future of psychiatric Assessment: Evaluating biobehavioral measures.

7. Najolia, Gina M., Cohen, Alex S. (In Preparation). Affective Dysfunction and Emotional Stroop Performance

in Schizophrenia and Schizotypy.

8. Maul, Jennifer., Auster, Tracey, Cohen, Alex S. (In Preparation). Neurocognition and Subjective Quality of life in Schizophrenia.

9. Titcomb, Caroline, Selbom, Martin, Cohen, Alex S., Arbisi, Paul. (Under review). Clarifying the hierarchical structure of positive symptoms.

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10. Cohen, Alex S., Davis, Alexis, Najolia, Gina M., Morrison, Sean (In Preparation). Using objective measures to understanding the link between Ethnicity and Symptoms in Schizophrenia:

11. Fonsec-pedrero, Eduardo, Cohen, Alex S., Ortuño-Sierra, Javier, Pérez de Álbeniz, Alicia, Muñiz, José (Under Review). Is the Structure of Schizotypal Personality Equivalent Across Cultures?

12. Fonseca-Pedrero, E., . . . . Cohen, Alex S., . . .Jablensky, A. (Under Review). The structure and reliability of the schizotypal personality traits: a cross-national study.

13. Fonseca-Pedrero, E., . . . . Cohen, Alex S., . . .Jablensky, A. (Under Review). Brief assessment of schizotypal traits: A multinational study.

14. MacAulay RK, Calamia MC, Cohen AS, Daigle K, Foil H, Brouillette R, Bruce-Keller AJ, Keller JN (Under Review). Understanding Heterogeneity in Older Adults: Latent Growth Curve Modeling of Cognitive Functioning

15. Meaux L, Mitchell, K, Cohen, Alex S. (Under Review). Blunted vocal affect and expression is not associated with schizophrenia: A computerized acoustic analysis of speech under ambiguous conditions.

PROFESSIONAL ORAL PRESENTATIONS OF NOTE:

1. Symposium Chair: Cohen, A.S., Kring, A., Hetrick, W. (2016) Elevating psychopathology research: Flash talks for the game and its players . Symposium presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Baltimore, MD. 2016

2. Cohen, A.S., (2016) Psychometrics for contemporary psychopathology assessment . Symposium presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology in Baltimore, MD. 2016

3. Cohen, A.S. BioBehavioral Assessment for Personality and Psychopathology Assessment. Keynote Address to the 51st Annual Symposium on MMPI Research, Palm Springs, 2016.

4. Cohen, Alex S., (2016). Vocal Expression and Schizophrenia: Less than meets the ear. Thematic flash talk to be presented at the 2016 Society for Affective Science in Chicago, Il.

5. Symposium Chair and Discussant: Cohen, A.S., Lenzenweger M., Kwapil, T., Park, S., (2015) Journey to the bio-behavioral center of schizotypy. Symposium presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA. 2015.

6. Cohen, A.S., (2015) Diminished expressivity in schizotypy: More than meets the eye . . . and the ear. Symposium to be presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA.

7. Nicodemus, K.K, Elvavag, B., Cohen, A.S., Wolters, M. (2015). Reoperationalizing “language” within an RDoC framework. Symposium to be presented at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics.

8. MacAulay, R.K., Cohen, A.S., Brouillette, R. M., Foil, H. C., Bruce-Keller, A. J., & Keller, J.N. (2015). Towards a Cognitive Endophenotype Model of Preclinical Alzheimer's   Disease . Paper and poster accepted for presentation at National Academy of Neuroscience, 35th Annual Conference in Austin, Texas.

9. Cohen, A.S. BioBehavioral Assessment for Neurology and Psychiatry. . .its almost here. Grand Rounds by invite to University of Mississippi Medical Center. April 2015.

10. Cohen, A.S. BioBehavioral Assessment for Neurology and Psychiatry. . .its almost here. Grand Rounds by invite to University of Louisiana Health Sciences Center Psychiatry. May 2015.

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11. Cohen, A.S., Chan, R.K.  Neural, Cognitive and Social Underpinnings of Schizotypy: Updates from the International Consortium on Schizotypy Research. Symposium presented at the 15th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research in Colorado Springs April 2015

12. Cohen, A.S., The roots of psychometric schizotypy: a disruption in basic reasoning. Symposium presented at the 15th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research in Colorado Springs April 2015.

13. Cohen, A.S., Computerized Vocal Analysis for Understanding Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders. Webinar for the National Institute of Mental Health. 2014

14. Cohen, A.S., Biological and Neurocognitive Dimensions of Schizotypy. Invited presentation at the 2013 LeManic workshop on Schizotypy in Geneva Switzerland.

15. Cohen, A.S. Using Computer Technologies to Understand Treatment–Resistant Psychiatric Symptoms. Invited presentation to the University of Tromso Medical School: Tromso Norway.

16. Cohen, A.S. Innovations in Measuring and Understanding Negative Symptoms in Severe Mental Illness. Invited presentation to Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center: Dartmouth Medical School

17. Cohen, A.S. Using Computer Technologies to Understand Treatment–Resistant Psychiatric Symptoms. Invited presentation to the Department of Psychology: Southern Methodist University

18. Cohen, AS., Kim, YK, Auster, TA, Callaway, D., MaCauley, R. Primary versus Secondary Causes of Diminished Expressivity in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders. Presented at the 2012 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

19. Najolia, G., Cohen, A.S., Ecker, A.H., & Buckner, J.D. The influence of schizotypy on the relationship between social anxiety and cannabis use. In A. Menatti (Chair), Heterogeneity in Social Anxiety Disorder: Expanding Conceptualizations. Symposium abstract accepted for presentation at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies annual convention, National Harbor, MD.

20. Cohen, AS, Minor, KS, Morrison, SE. Towards a Cognitive Resource Limitations Model of Diminished Expressivity in Schizotypy & Schizophrenia. Presentation for the 2010 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

21. Cohen, AS, Brown, LA, Najolia, GM. An explicit, implicit and behavioral-based investigation of pleasant and unpleasant social affect in schizotypy: More than just social anhedonia. Presented at the 2009 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN.

22. Cohen, Alex S. Towards a Contextual Understanding of Diminished Expressivity in Schizotypy. Presented at the 2008 Society for Research and Psychopathology, 22nd Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.

23. Cohen, Alex S. Social Cognitive Biases Across the Schizophrenia-Sp ectrum . 2008 International Neuropsychological Society in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

PROFESSIONAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS:Italics denote a graduate student under my supervision

1. Fedechko, T. L., Wygant, D. B., Frick, P. J., Clark, J. E., Matlasz, T. M., Le, T. P., & Cohen, A. S. (2017, April). Computationally-derived markers of verbal and nonverbal affective expression in psychopathy: A preliminary “qualntitative” study. Poster presented at the Annual Society for Affective Sciences Conference, Boston, MA.

2. Schwartz, E.K., Leistman, L.L., Premkumar, P., & Cohen, A.S. (2017, April). Is it what is said, how it is said, or both? Linguistic and paralinguistic elements of expressed emotion in relatives of individuals with schizotypy. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Affective Science, Boston, MA.

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3. Le, T.P, Mitchell, K.R., Fedechko, T., & Cohen, A.S. (2017). Alexithymia and arousal based deficits in serious mental illness. Poster accepted for presentation for the 4th annual meeting for Affective Sciences, Boston, MA. 

4. Mitchell; Meaux; Le; Docherty; Cohen. A Linguistic Approach To Understanding The Relationship Between Alogia, Blunted Affect And Disorganized Speech. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Research in Psychopathology in Baltimore, MD

5. Schwartz; Badcock; Barkus; Cohen. Interpersonal Functioning In Schizotypy: A Multi-method Approach To Exploring Abnormal Social Interest. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Research in Psychopathology in Baltimore, MD

6. Le; Calamia; Bernstein; Cheng; Elvevåg; Foltz; Rosenfeld; Mitchell; McGovern; Schwartz; Cohen. Psychosis-proneness And Cognitive Intra-individual Variability In Daily Life. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Research in Psychopathology in Baltimore, MD

7. McGovern; Horan; Gard; Docherty; Strauss; Gold; Carpenter; Buchanan; McMahon; Cohen. Neurocognitive Predictors Of Alogia In Schizophrenia Patients: Data From Four Archived Databases . Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Research in Psychopathology in Baltimore, MD.

8. Mitchell, Meaux, Strauss, Blanchard, Buchanan, McMahon, Kelly, Adams, Carpenter, Cohen. Plasma Oxytocin Concentration And Objective Computer-based Facial And Vocal Expressivity In Schizophrenia . Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA.

9. Mitchell, Strauss, Blanchard, Buchanan, McMahon, Kelly, Adams, Carpenter, Cohen, examining the effects of intranasal oxytocin on negative symptoms in schizophrenia using computer-based measures of expressivity. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Affective Science in Chicago, Il.

10. Schwartz, Le, Mitchell, Greening, Cohen. Temporal experience of positive and negative emotion in schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Affective Science in Chicago, Il.

11. Le, Minor, Najolia, Cohen the effect of limited cognitive resources on affect and speech in serious mental illness. Poster presented at the 2016 Society for Affective Science in Chicago, Il.

12. Meaux, Mitchell, Hart, Levy; Coleman; Lewine; Cohen. Blunted Vocal Affect And Expression Not Associated With Schizophrenia: A Computerized Acoustic Analysis Of Ambiguous Speech. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA.

13. Schwartz, Docherty, Najolia, Cohen. Ethnic Differences In Symptom Expression As Measured By Symptom Rating Scales Versus Behavioral Analysis. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA.

14. McGovern; Cohen. Effort-based Decision-making In Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA.

15. Marggraf; Cohen; Auster, Minor Semantic Incoherence In Psychometric Schizotypy: An Investigation Using Latent Semantic Analysis. Poster presented at the 2015 Society for Research in Psychopathology in New Orleans, LA.

16. Mangrum, D., Cohen, A.S. (2015). Detecting hostility in natural speech using computerized speech analysis. Poster presented to the LSU McNair Scholar conference.

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17. Kinsaul, Jessica, London, Heurtin, Paige, McGovern, Jessica, John, Natalie, Cohen, Alex S. Effects of Mirror Exposure and Brief Mindfulness Interventions in Undergraduate Females ". Poster accepted to the 36th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in San Antonio, TX

18. Cohen AS; Strauss GP; Mitchell K; Meaux L; Buchanan RW; McMahon RP; Carpenter WT. Computerized vocal and facial analysis in schizophrenia during social interactions: Data from the baseline phase of the CIDAR study. Poster accepted to the 2015 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research conference.

19. MacAulay, R., Parks, T., Cohen, AS. Social Anxiety In Schizotypy: Psychosocial Stress And Attentional Vigilance. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

20. Michael, K., Quirk, S., Cohen, AS. Eye Gaze And Nonverbal Aspects Of Speech In Social Anxiety. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

21. Cohen, AS., Horan, William., Dinzeo, T., Docherty, T. Computerized Acoustic Analysis Of Natural Speech In A Large Sample Of Patients With Severe Mental Illness. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

22. Walsh, H., Heurtin, P., McGovern, J., Cohen, AS. The Psychological Correlates Of Social Cognitive Biases In Patients With Severe Mental Illness. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

23. Mitchell, K., Renshaw, T., Cohen, AS. The Structure Of Emotion Experience And Expression In Psychometrically-defined Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

24. Heurtin, P., Walsh, H., McGovern, J., Renshaw T. Cohen, AS. An analysis of anhedonia in severe mental illness using retrospective memory recall. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

25. MacAulay, R., Parks, T., McGovern, J., Cohen, AS. Social Anxiety In Schizotypy: Psychosocial Stress And Attentional Vigilance. Poster presented at the 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology conference.

26. Bedwell, J., Trachik, B., Cohen, AS., Deptula, A., Mitchell, J. Speech prosody and schizotypy: Are abnormalities limited to males? Poster accepted for presentation at the 2014 Society for Biological Psychiatry conference.

27. Cohen, Alex S., Callaway, Dallas, Larsen, JT. Ambivalence across the Schizophrenia Spectrum: a temporal examination of co-activated valence networks. Poster submitted for presentation at the 2014 Society for Affective Sciences in Washington DC.

28. Najolia, G.. Cohen, AS. An Examination of Behavioral Speech Characteristics Distinguishing Feigned and Genuine Schizophrenia. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2014 American Psychology Law Society conference in New Orleans, LA.

29. Bedwell, J., Trachik, B., Cohen, AS., Deptula, A., Mitchell, J. Speech prosody and schizotypy: Are abnormalities limited to males? Poster accepted for presentation at the 2013 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Oakland, CA.

30. MacAulay, R. & Cohen, AS. The Dynamic Relationship Between Attention, Emotion and Psychosocial Stress in Psychometric Schizotypy. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2013 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Oakland, CA.

31. Cohen, AS. McGovern, JE, Auster, T, MacAulay, R, The subjective-objective paradox in psychometrically-defined schizotypy: What it is and why it is important. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2013 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Oakland, CA.

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32. McGovern, J., Auster, T., MacAulay, R., Cohen, A. (2013). Unexpected Speech Performance under High- Versus Low-Cognitive Load in Psychometric Schizotypy. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2013 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Oakland, CA.

33. Cohen, AS. The subjective-objective paradox in psychometrically-defined schizotypy: What it is and why it is important . Presented at the 2013 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Oakland, CA.

34. Cohen, AS. Computerized analysis of natural speech reveals neurocognitive underpinnings for alogia but not blunted affect in severe mental illness. Presented at the 2013 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research in Orlando, Florida.

35. Ecker, AH., Cohen, AS., Buckner, JD. College student alcohol use and perceived social norms: a multiinformat investigation of proximal friend norms. Presented at the 2013 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies annual convention.

36. Llerena, K, Strauss, G, Cohen, AS. A meta-analysis of self-reported emotional arousal in people with schizophrenia. Presented at the 2012 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

37. Auster, T., Chenevert, V., Lejeune, K, Callaway, D., Cohen, A. Cognitive Concerns: Do individuals with schizotypy report subjectively poor cognitive performance compared to their actual performance? Presented at the 2012 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

38. Callaway, D, Cohen, AS, Larsen J, Najolia, G. Auster T. Exploring Ambivalent Emotional Experience in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorder Patients. Presented at the 2012 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

39. MacAulay, R, Brown, L, Minor, K, Cohen, AS. Affect and Coping: Does cognitive function predict coping strategies in schizophrenia and psychometrically-defined schizotypy? Presented at the 2012 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

40. Stewart, DW, Vinci, C, Cohen, AS, Copeland, AL. Smoking topography and smoking related outcome expectancies in smokers with schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2012 Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco.

41. Breslin, Ali, Kim, Yunjung, Cohen, AS, Prosodic characteristics of speakers with schizophrenia disorders: preliminary data. Poster presented at the 2011 Acoustic Society of America.

42. Najolia, GM, Cohen, AS. Affective Dysfunction and Emotional Stroop Performance in Schizophrenia. Presented at the 2011 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston MA.

43. Morrison, S., Cohen, AS., Najolia, GM. Exploring the Relationships Between Ideas of Reference, Paranoia, and Social Anxiety in Psychometrically-defined Schizotypy. Presented at the 2011 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston MA.

44. Minor, KS., Callaway, D., Mack, M., Cohen, AS. The Role of Atypical Semantic Activation in Schizotypy: Implications for Odd Speech and Creativity. Presented at the 2011 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston MA.

45. Cohen, AS., Larsen, J., Strauss, G., Callaway, D., Najolia, GM. On “risk” and reward: investigating state anhedonia in psychometrically-defined schizotypy and schizophrenia. Presented at the 2011 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston MA.

46. Auster, T., Callaway, D., Brown, L., Cohen, AS. Objective and subjective olfactory ratings across the schizophrenia spectrum. Presented at the 2011 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston MA.

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47. Callaway, D., Auster, T., Cohen, AS., Matthews R., Dinzeo, T. Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire – Brief Revised: Psychometric Replication and Extension. Presented at the 2011 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston MA.

48. Morrison, S, Lavigne, K, Brown, LA, Cohen, AS,. Social Cognition and Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2010 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

49. Minor, KS, Limon, K, Ross, B, Cohen, AS. Speech disorder and atypical semantic activation in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2010 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

50. Najolia, GM., Cohen, AS,. Buckner, JL. Cannabis Use, Cannabis Problems, and the Influence of Social Anxiety in Categorically Defined Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2010 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

51. Brown, LA, Cohen, AS,. Attribution Style in Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2010 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

52. Buckner, J.D., Ecker, A.H., Cohen, A.S., & Schmidt, N.B. (2010, June). Distress and impairment associated with co-occurring marijuana-related problems among individuals with clinically elevated social anxiety. Poster abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Anxiety Disorders Special Interest Group, San Francisco, CA.

53. Brown, LA, Najolia, GM, Cohen, AS,. Conceptualizing the inner struggle: A study of the structure of schizotypal ambivalence and it’s correlates. Poster presented at the 2009 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN.

54. Najolia, GM., Cohen, AS. An Investigation of Emotional Stroop in Schizotypy and its Relationship to Trait Affectivity. Poster presented at the 2009 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN.

55. Gates, C., Minor, KM., Cohen, AS., The Relationship Between Neurocognition and Real World Functioning in Individuals At-Risk for Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2009 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN.

56. Minor, KM, Cohen, AS, Weber, CR, Limon, KL, Fenerty, K. Creativity in Individuals At-Risk for Schizophrenia: Are Atypical Responses a Valid Measure of Creativity and What Are They Related To . Poster presented at the 2009 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN.

57. Vigna, J., Tarcza, E., Cohen, AS. Validating a Group Treatment Protocol for PTSD. Poster presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

58. Vigna, J., Tarcza, E., Cohen, AS. Psychosis in PTSD: Case presentations as evidence for a specifier of PTSD with psychotic feature. Presented at the 2009 annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

59. Buckner, J.D., Ecker, A.H., & Cohen, A.S. Attitudes toward seeking marijuana treatment among marijuana-using college students. Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group, New York, NY.

60. Buckner, J.D., Silgado, J. & Cohen, A.S. Hostility linked to greater marijuana-related problems among the socially anxious. Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.

61. Stewart, DW, Cohen, AS, Copeland, AL. Smoking across the Schizotypy Spectrum. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

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62. Cohen, AS. Using Acoustic Analysis of Natural Speech to Understand the Neurocognitive, Clinical and Functional Correlates of Diminished Expressivity in Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2009 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.

63. Minor, KS.; Iglesias, B, Najolia, GM, Cohen, AS Neurocognitive and Coping Correlates of Speech Disorder in Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2009 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.

64. Brown, LA, Minor, KS.; Iglesias, B, Najolia, GM, Cohen, AS. Brutal honesty: perceptions of social abilities in schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2009 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.

65. Minor, KS.; Iglesias, B, Najolia, GM, Cohen, AS The Winter Blues: Season of Birth Patterns in Schizotypy. Poster presented at the 2009 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.

66. Iglesias, B, Minor, KS, Brown, LA, Najolia, GN, Cohen, AS. Right Hemisphere dysfunction and Diminished Expressivity in Schizotypy: What the Voice Reveals. Presented at the annual meeting of the 2008 Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, PA.

67. Brown, LA, Iglesias, B, Minor, KS, Cohen, AS. Clarifying Facial Emotion Recognition Deficits in Schizotypy: Accuracy, Perceptual Biases, and Quality of Life. Presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, PA.

68. Najolia, G.N., Cohen, A.S., Minor, K.S., & Iglesias, B. (2008, September). A laboratory study of affectivity in schizotypy: Subjective and lexical analysis. Presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, PA.

69. Minor, KS.; Adams, EC.; Brown, LA; King, MS; & Cohen, AS. Affective Reactivity of speech disturbances in schizotypy. Presented at the 2008 Society for Research and Psychopathology, 22nd Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA

70. Cohen, Alex S., Minor, Kyle, Brown, Laura . Emotional Experience in Patients with Schizophrenia Re-visited: Meta-analysis of Laboratory Studies. Presented at the 2007 Society for Research in Psychopathology.

71. Cohen, Alex S., Minor, Kyle, Alpert, Murray, Nienow, Tasha M., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Docherty, Nancy M. Computerized Analysis of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Presented at the 2007 International Congress in Schizophrenia Research in Colorado Springs, CO.

72. Cohen, A. S., Saperstein, A. M., Gold, J., Kirkpatrick, B, Carpenter, W, Buchanan, R. W. Neuropsychology of the deficit syndrome : Meta-analysis of findings to date . Presented at the 2006 Society for Research in Psychopathology in San Diego, CA.

73. Carreno, J., Blanchard, J. J., Cohen, A. S. Update on the Maryland Longitudinal Study of Schizotypy: Three-year Follow-up Data. Presented at the 2006 Society for Research in Psychopathology in San Diego, CA.

74. Nienow, T. M., Docherty, N. M., Dinzeo, T. J., & Cohen, A. S. Neurocognitive and social-cognitive contributions to functional outcome in patients with schizophrenia. Presented at the 2006 Biological Psychiatry conference, 59 (Suppl. 8), 2025.

75. Carreño, J. T., Henneberger, A., Lank, A., Calahan, M., Leung, W., Lieth, J., Cohen, A. S., & Blanchard, J. J. Dimensions of Schizotypy and the Expression of Emotion: An Examination of Sex Differences, Presented at the American Psychological Society conference in , New York , NY .

76. Saperstein, A., Cohen, A.S., Buchanan, R., Gold, J. Neuropsychological correlates of the deficit syndrome in schizophrenia. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2005 Society for Research in Psychopathology (Miami, Fl, USA – conference cancelled due to severe weather).

77. Forbes, C., Carreno, J., Cohen, A.S., Adams, K., Chamberlin, C., Mann, M., Saperstein, A. Update on the Maryland Longitudinal Study of Schizotypy: Preliminary Findings from a 3-year Follow-up of Social

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Anhedonics. Poster to be presented at the 2005 Society for Research in Psychopathology (Miami, Fl, USA - conference cancelled due to severe weather).

78. Nienow, T., Docherty, N., Dinzeo, T., Cohen, A.S. Neurocognitive and Social-Cognitive Contributions to Functional Outcome in Patients with Schizophrenia. Poster to be presented at the 2005 Society for Research in Psychopathology (Miami, Fl, USA).

79. Cohen, A.S, Nienow, T., Dinzeo, T., Docherty, N. Misinterpreted Facial Emotions, Symptoms and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2005 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (Savannah, GA, USA).

80. Nienow, T., Docherty, N., Cohen, A.S, Dinzeo, T. Contribution of Neurocognitive Functioning and Symptomatology to Emotion Recognition Performance in Patients with Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2005 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (Savannah, GA, USA).

81. Cohen, A.S, Dinzeo, T., Nienow, T., Docherty, N. Diminished Emotionality in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2004 Society for Research in Psychopathology (St. Louis, MO, USA).

82. Dinzeo, T., Nienow, T., Cohen, A.S., Docherty, N. Emotional Arousability and Social Functioning in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2004 Society for Research in Psychopathology (St. Louis, MO, USA).

83. Nienow, T., Docherty, N., Cohen, A.S, Dinzeo, T. Neurocognitive Predictors of Social Competence in Patients with Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2004 Society for Research in Psychopathology (St. Louis, MO, USA).

84. Cohen, A.S., Junginger, J,. A Working Typology of Delusions. Poster presented at the 2004 American Psychological Sciences (Chicago, Illinois, USA).

85. Cohen, A.S, Dangelmaier, R., Docherty, N. Effects of Positive Emotion on Speech Disorder in Patients with Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2003 Society for Research in Psychopathology (Toronto, CANADA).

86. Nienow, T., Cohen, A., Dinzeo, T., Docherty, N. Associations between Neurocognitive Functioning and Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2003 Society for Research in Psychopathology (Toronto, CANADA).

87. Dinzeo, T., Nienow, T., Cohen, A., Docherty, N. Temperment and Stress Response in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2003 Society for Research in Psychopathology (Toronto, CANADA).

88. Docherty, N., Cohen, A.S., Nienow, T., Dinzeo, T., Dangelmaier, R., James, S. Statiblity of Schizophrenic Referential Communication Disturbances Over Time and Across Changes in Clinical State. Poster presented at the 2003 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (Crystal Springs, Colorado, USA).

89. Cohen, A.S., Dinzeo, T., Docherty, N. Delusions and Hallucinations are Associated with Different Patterns of Frontal Lobe Functioning in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2003 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (Crystal Springs, Colorado, USA).

90. Nienow, T., Armelie, A., Cohen, A.S., Docherty, N. Source Monitoring and Communication Disturbance in Schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 2003 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (Crystal Springs, Colorado, USA).

91. Docherty, N., Cohen, A., Dinzeo, T., Nienow, T., (2002, September) Stability of Schizophrenic Formal Thought Disorder and Referential Communication Disturbances. Poster presented at Society for Research in Psychopathology (San Francisco, CA, USA).

92. Docherty, N., Cohen, A, Neinow, T, James, S, (2001, November) Affective Reactivity and the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia. Poster presented at Society for Research in Psychopathology (Madison, Wisconsin, USA).

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93. Cohen, A.S., James, S., Dinzeo, T., Docherty, N. (2001, May) Stress & the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia. Poster presented at International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (British Columbia, CANADA).

94. Gordinier, S., Cohen, A.S., Docherty, N. (2000, November) Aggression in Paranoid and Nonparanoid Schizophrenia: Associations with Neuropsychological Functioning and Symptomatology. Poster presented at Society for Research in Psychopathology (Denver, Colorado, USA).

95. Cohen, A.S., Neinow, T., Rhinewine, J., Gordinier, S., Docherty, N. (1999, November) Deficit vs. Negative Syndrome: Prediction of Attentional Impairment. Poster presented at Society for Research in Psychopathology (Montreal, CANADA).

GRANT REVIEW EXPERIENCE:National Institute of Mental HealthMedical Research Council, Joint Electronic Submissions, Glasgow Scotland, Canada Institute of HealthSan Francisco State University

EDITORIAL BOARD:Schizophrenia Bulletin (Consulting Editor)Journal of Abnormal Psychology (Consulting Editor)Psychologist Papers (Editorial Board)

AD-HOC JOURNAL REVIEWER:

American Journal of Psychiatry Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseasesArchives of General Psychiatry Journal of PersonalityBiological Psychiatry Journal of PersonalityBiological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience Journal of Personality DisordersClinical Psychology Review Journal of Rehabilitation Research and DevelopmentClinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychosis Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

Cognition and Emotion Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry NeuroimagingComprehensive Psychiatry Personality and Individual DifferencesCortex Personality Disorders, Theory Research and PracticeCurrent Directions in Psychological Science PLoS One

European Archives Progress in Neuropharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry

European Neuropsychopharmacology Psychiatry ResearchEuropean Psychiatry Psychological BulletinFrontiers in Human Neuroscience Psychological RecordJAMA Psychiatry (Archives of General Psychiatry) Research in Developmental DisabilitiesJournal of Abnormal Psychology Research Schizophrenia Research and TreatmentJournal of Affective Disorders Schizophrenia BulletinJournal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Schizophrenia Research

Journal of Clinical and Consulting Psychology Schizophrenia Research and TreatmentJournal of Clinical Psychiatry Schizophrenia Research: CognitionJournal of Clinical Psychology Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceJournal of International Neuropsychological Society

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SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE:

2007-2011 Assessment Supervisor Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LADirector LSU Athlete Testing Program

2006-Present Research Supervisor Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LADirector: Severe Psychopathology Research Laboratory

2006-Present Psychotherapy Supervisor Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LASupervisor Adult Practicum Team

2006-Present Psychotherapy Consultant/Supervisor Dr. Tyler CMHC, Lafayette, LASupervisor: Adult Practicum

2006-Present Psychological Consultant/Supervisor Chartres Pontchartrain CMHC, N Orleans, LASupervisor: Adult practicum

2004-2006 University of Maryland, College ParkGraduate student supervisor - approximately 120 hours direct supervision, 240 hours indirect supervision.

2005 Summer Research Initiative, University of Maryland, College ParkUndergraduate student research supervisor – 20 hoursProject title - “Olfactory Discrimination in Social Anhedonia: The Relationship between Deficit Symptoms and Olfactory Dysfunction” presented at the UMCP summer research initiative

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

21621 Quantitative Methods2000 Introduction to Psychology2999 Research Practicum3082 Abnormal Psychology40383 Psychological Interventions4999 Advanced Research Practicum41990 Writing in Psychology7982 Advanced Psychopathology7999 Professional Considerations in Psychology

STUDENT AWARDS/DISTINCTIONS:

2015 Postdoctoral Scholar (Kailtlin Cannava)2010-2012 Fullbright Scholar [France] – Charlotte Gates2008

McNair Scholars Aspire Scholars2015 Danielle Mangrum 2015 Lauren Meaux2015 Lauren Leistman 2014 Hannah Walsh2013 Yvonne Thompson 2014 Paige Heurtin2011 Martina Coe 2012 Zachery Thriffily

2010 Charlotte Gates2010 Kristi Lavigne

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE:

2014-2015 Local Host (New Orleans): 2015 Society for Research in Psychopathology2013-2014 Program Committee Chair: 2014 Society for Research in Psychopathology 2011-Present Data Safety Monitoring Board: Pennington 2011-Present Data Safety Monitoring Board: Pennington 2010 OLOL Psychiatry: Curriculum Committee

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE:

2017-Present PBRC Institutional Review Board Adjunct Member2014-2015 Crumpler Chair search committee2014-Present LSU Institutional Review Board Associate Chair2008-2014 LSU Institutional Review Board member2008-Present LSU Undergraduate Advisor2008-Present LSU Psychological Services Clinic Workshop Series2007-Present Co-director, Athlete Testing Services2006-Present Head: LSU Professional Workshop Series for Psychology2007 Donor’s Advisory Meeting for the College of Arts & Sciences2006-2007 Crumpler Chair search committee2006-2007 Centennial Celebration committee member

Thesis Committees

2006F Lauren Baillie 2010Su Megan Sipes2007F Diana Stewart 2011S Justin Ory2007S Devan Guidruy 2011S Sean Morrison2007S Jessica Boisjoli 2011F Tony Eckart2007S Johnathon Wilkins 2011F Joni Lee Pow2007S Dan Proto 2011F Meghan Geary2007S Kyle Minor 2011F Tracey Auster2008F Gina Najolia 2011F Dallas Callaway2009S Laura Brown 2013S Rebecca MaCaulay2009S Amanda Van Lamsweerde 2013S Kris Henderson2009F Megan Snipes 2014S Jessica McGovern2010S Mandi Musso 2014S Seandra Cosgrove2010S Allyse Barker 2014S Rebecca MacAulay2009S Amanda Van Lamsweerde 2014F Emily Jeffries2010S Mandi Musso 2015S Kyle Mitchell2010S Allyse Barker 2010Su Megan Sipes

General Exam Committees

2006F Ben Hill 2014S Jonathon Nester2008F Audrey Baumeister 2013S Laura Meiki2008F Lauren Baillie 2010F Megan Kliebert2008F Valerie Paasch 2011S Meghan Geary2008Su Jessica Boisjoli 2011S Gina Najolia2009S Magda Kulesza 2011F Laura Brown2009S Brittany Hernandez 2012S Jose Silgado2009S Julia Vigna 2012F Sean Morrison2009S Emily Olinde 2013S Laura Meiki2009Su Claire Adams 2013S Joni Lee Pow2009Su Diana Stewart 2013F Tracey Auster2009F Megan Apperson 2013F Justin Ory2009F Kyle Minor 2015S Seandra Cosgrove2009F Arlene Gorden 2010F Dan Proto

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2009F Meredith Terlicki 2010F Mary Shoemaker2010F Jeff Chenier 2010F Dan Proto

Dissertation Defense Committees

2009S Scott Patterson 2012Su Dan Proto2010S Julia Vigna 2012Su Danial Proto2010F Valerie Paasch 2013S Mandi Musso2010F David Landry 2013Su Meghan Geary2011S Claire Adams 2013Su Gina Najolia2011S Lauren Baillie I 2013Su Laura Brown2011S Meredith Terlicki 2014F Melissa Munson2011S Magda Kulesza 2015S Joni Pow2011Su Diana Stewart 2015S Jessica Kinsaul2011Su Lauren Baillie II 2015Su Sean Morrison2011Su Arlene Gorden 2015Su Jose Silgado2011Su Kyle Minor 2015Su Rebecca MacAulay2011Su Brittany Hernandez 2015Su Tracey Auster2011Su Ryan Thorston

MILITARY SERVICE:

1992-1998 U.S. Army Reserves. Rank - Sergeant E5.Served as a 12C, combat engineer in the 671st engineering company, in charge of a squad of jet boat operators. Auxiliary duties included serving as drug and alcohol counselor and training coordinator for the unit.

1996 Professional Leadership Development Course Fort Chafee, AKCompleted Professional Leadership Development Course (PLDC), a pre-requisite for non-commissioned officer rank.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Association for Psychological Science (APS)Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP)National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)

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