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Nancy M. Docherty

Nancy M. Docherty

Department of Psychology
Professor Emeritus & KSU Distinguished Scholar
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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)

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.
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