Excited to see everyone at SRP in a month! psychopathology.org/wp-content/u... Check out the schedule and our wonderful speakers here: srp.societyconference.com/conf/#sessio...

New paper from grad student Luzma! 🎉 Luzma has been doing really innovative work looking at how LLMs can supplement assessments of psychosis risk. Alliende et al. (2026), Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

We are hiring a TT assistant prof in the clinical area- Northwestern Psychology! Please share with anyone who might be interested. psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

Job Opportunities: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University

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Check out this great interview about graduate student Jessica Fattal’s work on how motor abnormalities may relate to both general and specific mental health symptoms. So proud of you, Jessica! www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2026-ju...

Motor Abnormalities Predict Mental Illness in Both General and Specific Symptoms

Understanding how motor abnormalities relate to psychological disorders may provide insight into mechanisms underlying mental health issues, disease progression, and potential treatments.

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DevSci Undergrad Poster Day! What a great moment to celebrate our undergrads and all of their hard work this summer!

Updated lab photo after a brief (long) hiatus! 🧠📸

Excited to share new work led by one of our lab coordinators, Hailey Rich, on atypical semantic priming in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis! Congrats to Hailey and the team! doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

We've spent decades predicting who will "convert" to psychosis — while conversion rates keep falling and the people in our clinics keep struggling. Our new Viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry makes the case: it's time to stop counting conversions.

Congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on leading this project in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open! 🎉 Across 800+ young adults, the team found that greater detection of faces and speech in ambiguous stimuli was associated with psychosis risk and perceptual abnormalities. doi.org/10.1093/schi...

Psychosis Risk Is Associated with Increased Multimodal Reports of Socially Salient Content in Degraded Stimuli

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Humans are adaptively tuned to detect faces and speech in noisy environments. While such detection is generally adaptive

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Thank you to University of Chicago for having me as the keynote speaker at their Global Child Mental Health Symposium, and to everyone who came out! crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/...

Some of our current members and fellow alumni/collaborators at SIRS!!

Huge congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social, undergrad senior Taera, Theresa, and Amy!! 🎉 Victor has been working on examining phantom phone vibrations as an understudied, real-world marker of psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

New paper in Schizophrenia Research with Drs. Wing-Chung Chang and Elaine Walker. We review how negative symptoms emerge and evolve across the psychosis spectrum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Negative symptoms across developmental stages in psychosis spectrum

Negative symptoms are a core feature of schizophrenia and other psychoses that contribute substantially to functional disability but benefit little fr…

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Some exciting news 🎉 The lab was ranked 2nd globally for psychosis research over the past 5 years! So proud of this incredible team and all of our collaborators, what a great year :) scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

Julianna Schuch, a recent Northwestern graduate, makes a call for cultural sensitivity when evaluating nonverbal behaviors in people on the psychosis spectrum in her first lead author publication. Thank you to @daniellepratt.bsky.social for your supervision!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reevaluating the assessment of nonverbal behavior in psychosis symptomatology: A call for cultural sensitivity

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Congrats again to @daniellepratt.bsky.social on leading an impressive meta-analysis of 115 studies, now published in @jama.com Psychiatry. Thank you to all the coauthors as well for pulling off such a major effort! 🎉 doi.org/10.1001/jama...

Processing Speed Impairment in Schizophrenia

This meta-analysis provides an updated review of the evidence for a central processing speed impairment in people with schizophrenia.

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Processing speed impairment is one of the most functionally important deficits in schizophrenia. In this meta-analysis, Danielle Pratt leads us to synthesize decades of evidence to show that processing speed deficits are large, reliable, and central to the cognitive profile. doi.org/10.1001/jama...

ear Community Members, I am excited to announce we have launched a search to fill a new Position at the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being. Please share this posting, for a Senior Program Coordinator, with anyone you think might be interested.

So excited to share the Anthem video for Northwestern University's Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy...

Northwestern's Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being Anthem Video

YouTube video by Vijay Mittal

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The lab is recruiting a postdoc. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.adaptprogram.com/join-adapt

Huge congratulations to lab manager @maevehoff.bsky.social on her first-author paper!! Thank you Luzma, @victor-pokorny.bsky.social, @tfwilliams.bsky.social, and CAPR collaborators: Baseline Social Functioning Associated With Increased Likelihood of Remission in a CHR Sample doi.org/10.1093/schi...

Baseline Social Functioning is associated with increased likelihood of Remission from a Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis Syndrome

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Most individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) will not develop psychosis. Moreover, a proportion of individ

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Huge congrats to @juliettelozanog.bsky.social, Sophie Parmacek, and all our CAPR collaborators on this exciting new Nature Schizophrenia publication! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spontaneous head movements during virtual clinical interviews help predict 12-months clinical outcomes in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Spontaneous head movements during virtual clinical interviews help predict 12-months clinical outcomes in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis

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Congratulations to post doc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on his new commentary on Miller & Chapman (2001), accepted in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! 👏 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

Had such a great time yesterday at the 2025 DevSci Holiday Scientific Symposium!! Thank you everyone for coming :)

Check out our new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin showing that ethnoracial discrimination is linked to more psychotic-like experiences, partly through cannabis and other substance use. Great work Zeeshan Huque, Thomas Olino, Jason Schiffman, and Lauren Ellman!! doi.org/10.1093/schb...

Huge congratulations to Sophie, our asssessment specialist at ADAPT Lab on the publication of her new paper in Schizophrenia Research: Cognition! So proud to see you and @daniellepratt.bsky.social's research shine in this important work. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001325000599

Another great achievement from the AMP® SCZ initiative: building a global pipeline for speech, facial, and acoustic markers of psychosis risk. nature.com/articles/s41537-025-00669-z

Collecting language, speech acoustics, and facial expression to predict psychosis and other clinical outcomes: strategies from the AMP® SCZ initiative - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Collecting language, speech acoustics, and facial expression to predict psychosis and other clinical outcomes: strategies from the AMP® SCZ initiative

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Huge congrats to @jessicafattal.bsky.social, 4th year grad student: “Altered top-down modulation of electrodermal responses to sudden auditory stimuli in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis.” Great work Ajay Nadig, Ivanka Ristanovic, K. Juston Osborne, Claudia M. Haase!! 👏👏

New in Nature Schizophrenia!! “Shift in sex and age of individuals at a clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis: relation to differences in recruitment methods and effect on sample characteristics” (Farina et al., 2025). 📖 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Shift in sex and age of individuals at a clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis: relation to differences in recruitment methods and effect on sample characteristics - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Shift in sex and age of individuals at a clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis: relation to differences in recruitment methods and effect on sample characteristics

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🧠 New in Schizophrenia Research: Sensorimotor & psychomotor dysfunctions in SSD are not just med side effects but emerging as core features for early detection. @victor-pokorny.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...