Nancy M. Docherty
Department of Psychological Sciences
Professor Emeritus & KSU Distinguished Scholar
Office Location:
Kent Hall
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Biography
Research Area:
Clinical - Adult Psychopathology
Research Interests:
Cognitive and emotional functioning in schizophrenia; Thought, language, and communication disturbances; Stress-responsiveness of symptoms in schizophrenia; Vulnerability to psychosis.
Courses Frequently Taught:
- Adult Psychopathology (graduate)
- Clinical Practicum (graduate)
Education
Education: Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamptom (1991)
Expertise
Schizophrenia
Psychosis
Cognition
Stress
Emotion
Psychology
Health and Medicine
Diseases or Disorders
Psychosis
Cognition
Stress
Emotion
Psychology
Health and Medicine
Diseases or Disorders
Publications
- Docherty, N.M., St-Hilaire, A., Aakre, J.M., & Seghers, J.P. (2009) Life events and high trait reactivity together predict psychotic symptom increases in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35: 638-645.
- Aakre, J.M., Seghers, J.P., St-Hilaire, A, Docherty, N.M. (2009) Attributional style in delusional patients: A comparison of remitted paranoid, remitted non-paranoid, and current paranoid patients with nonpsychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Bulletin.
- Cohen, A.S., St-Hilaire, A., Aakre, J.M., Docherty, N.M. (2009). Understanding anhedonia in schizophrenia through lexical analysis of natural speech. Cognition and Emotion, 23: 569-586.
- Seghers, J.P., Docherty, N.M. (In press). Cognitive impairments, emotion, stress, and language in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research.
- Rubino, I.A., D’Agostino, L., Sarchiola, L., Romeo, D., Siracusano, A., Docherty, N.M. (In press) Referential failures and affective reactivity of language in schizophrenia and unipolar depression. Schizophrenia Bulletin.
- Dinzeo, T.J., Cohen, A.S., Nienow, T.M., & Docherty, N.M. (2008) Emotional arousability in schizophrenia: relationship to emotional and physiological reactivity and symptom severity. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 117: 432-439.
- St-Hilaire, A., Cohen, A.S., Docherty, N.M. (2008). Emotion word use in the conversational speech of schizophrenia patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13: 343-56.