Clinical Neuroscience of Schizophrenia Laboratory

Recent Publications

2020 / in press

Goghari, V., Krzyzanowski, D., Yoon, S., Dai, Y., & Toews, D. (in press). Attitudes and beliefs towards computerized cognitive training in the general population. Frontiers in Psychology.

Perkins, E. R., Joyner, K. J., Patrick, C. J., Bartholow, B. D., Latzman, R. D., DeYoung, C. G., Kotov, R., Reininghaus, U., Cooper, S. E., Afzali, M. H., Docherty, A. R., Dretsch, M. N., Eaton, N. R., Goghari, V. M., Haltigan, J. D., Krueger, R. F., Martin, E. A., Michelini, G., Ruocco, A. C., … Zald, D. H. (in press). Neurobiology and the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology: Progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience.

Cho, I. Y. K., & Goghari, V. M. (2020). The relationship between maintenance and manipulation components of working memory and prefrontal and parietal brain regions in bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 1, 519-526. 10.1016/j.jad.2019.11.085

2019

Cassetta, B. D., Tomfohr-Madsen, L. M., & Goghari, V.M. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of working memory and processing speed training in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 49(12), 2009-2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718002775

de Zwarte, S., Brouwer, R. M., Agartz, I., Alda, M., Aleman, A., Alpert, K. I., … Goghari, V. M., … van Haren, N. (2019). The association between familial risk and brain abnormalities is disease specific: An ENIGMA-relatives study of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 86(7), 545-556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.03.985

Goghari, V. M. (2019). Publishing excellence in Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne. Canadian Psychology, 60(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000178

Goghari, V.M. (2019). Spotlight on graduate education, research and professional training in psychology. Canadian Psychology, 60(4), 215-218. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000194

Goghari, V. M., & Harrow, M. (2019). Anxiety symptoms across twenty-years in schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 275, 310-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.03.050

Lawlor-Savage, L., Clark, C. M., & Goghari, V. M. (2019). No evidence that working memory training alters gray matter structure: A MRI surface-based analysis. Behavioural Brain Research, 360, 323–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.12.008

Shakeel, M. K., Hodgins, D. C., & Goghari, V.M. (2019). A comparison of self-reported impulsivity in gambling and bipolar disorder. Journal of Gambling Studies, 35, 339-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-018-9808-5

Sharif-Razi, M., Hodgins, D. C., & Goghari, V. M. (2019). Reactive and proactive control mechanisms of response inhibition in gambling disorder. Psychiatry Research, 272, 114–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.12.049

Spilka, M. J., Pittman, D. J., Bray, S. L., & Goghari, V. M. (2019). Manipulating visual scanpaths during facial emotion perception modulates functional brain activation in schizophrenia patients and controls. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(8), 855-866. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000468

Van Voorhis, A. C., Kent, J. S., Kang, S. S., Goghari, V. M., MacDonald, A. W., III, & Sponheim, S. R. (2019). Abnormal neural functions associated with inhibitory deficits in schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder. Human Brain Mapping, 40, 5397-5411. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24780

Wong, S. T. S., Goghari, V. M., Sanford, N., Lim, R., Clark, C., Metzak, P. D., Rossell, S. L., Menon, M., & Woodward, T. S. (2019). Functional brain networks involved in lexical decision corresponding. Brain and Cognition, 138, 103631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.103631

2018

Cassetta, B. D., Pexman, P. M., & Goghari, V. M. (2018). Cognitive and affective theory of mind and relationships with executive functioning in middle childhood. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 64(4), 514-538. https://doi.org//10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.64.4.0514

Goghari, V. M., & Lawlor-Savage, L. (2018). Self-perceived benefits of cognitive training in healthy older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10, 112. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00112

Woodward, M., Gicas, K., Warburton, D. E., … Goghari, V.M., Honer, W. G., & Lang, D. J. (2018). Hippocampal volume and vasculature before and after exercise in treatment resistant schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 202, 158-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.06.054

2017

Clark, C. M., Lawlor-Savage, L., & Goghari, V. M. (2017). Comparing brain activations associated with working memory and fluid intelligence. Intelligence, 63, 66–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2017.06.001

Clark, C. M., Lawlor-Savage, L., & Goghari, V. M. (2017). Working memory training in healthy young adults: Support for the null from a randomized comparison to active and passive control groups. PLoS One, 12(5), e0177707. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177707

Clark, C. M., Lawlor-Savage, L., & Goghari, V. M. (2017). Functional brain activation associated with working memory training and transfer. Behavioural Brain Research, 334, 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.07.030

Goghari, V. M. (2017). Personality dimensions in schizophrenia: A family study. Psychiatry Research, 251, 162–167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.040

Goghari, V. M., & Lawlor-Savage, L. (2017). Comparison of cognitive change after working memory training and logic and planning training in healthy older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9, 39. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00039

Goghari, V. M., & Lawlor-Savage, L. (2018). Self-perceived benefits of cognitive training in healthy older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10, 112. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00112

Goghari, V. M., Sanford, N., Spilka, M. J., & Woodward, T. S. (2017). Task-related fMRI network analysis of emotion recognition in a family study of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43(6), 1348–1362. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx004

Sears, C., Boyce, M., Boon, S., Goghari, V. M., Irwin, K., & Boyes, M. (2017). Predictors of student satisfaction in a large psychology undergraduate program. Canadian Psychology, 58(2), 148-160. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000082

Shakeel, M. K., & Goghari, V. M. (2017). Measuring fluid intelligence in healthy older adults. Journal of Aging Research, 2017, 8514582. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8514582

Spilka, M. J., & Goghari, V. M. (2017). Similar patterns of brain activation abnormalities during emotional and non-emotional judgments of faces in a schizophrenia family study. Neuropsychologia, 96, 164–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.01.014

2016

Arnold, A. E., Iaria, G., & Goghari, V. M. (2016). Efficacy of identifying neural components in the face and emotion processing system in schizophrenia using a dynamic functional localizer. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 248, 55–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2016.01.007

Cassetta, B., & Goghari, V. M. (2016). Working memory and processing speed training in schizophrenia: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 17, 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1188-5

Clark, C. M., Lawlor-Savage, L., & Goghari, V. M. (2016). The Flynn effect: A quantitative commentary on modernity and human intelligence. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 14(2), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/15366367.2016.1156910

Diaz, R. L., Wong, U., Hodgins, D. C., Chiu, C. G., & Goghari, V. M. (2016). Violent video game players and non-players differ on facial emotion recognition. Aggressive Behavior, 42(1), 16-28. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21602

Goghari, V. M. & Harrow, M. (2016). Twenty year multi-follow-up of different types of hallucinations in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and depression. Schizophrenia Research, 176(2-3), 371-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.06.027

Lawlor-Savage, L., & Goghari, V. M. (2016). Dual n-back working memory training in healthy adults: A randomized comparison to processing speed training. PLoS One, 11(4), e0151817. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151817

Yakovenko, I., Clark, C. M., Hodgins, D. C, & Goghari, V. M. (2016). A qualitative analysis of the effects of a comorbid disordered gambling diagnosis with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 171(1-3), 50-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.12.008

2015

Cassetta, B. D., & Goghari, V. M. (2015). Ethical considerations of screening and early intervention for clinical high-risk psychosis. Ethics & Behavior, 25(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2014.880920

Goghari, V. M., Truong, W., & Spilka, M. (2015). A magnetic resonance imaging family study of cortical thickness in schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 168(8), 660-668. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.32354

Spilka, M. J., Arnold, A. E., & Goghari, V. M. (2015). Functional activation abnormalities during facial emotion perception in schizophrenia patients and nonpsychotic relatives. Schizophrenia Research, 168(1-2), 330–337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.07.012