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    Nancy M. Docherty

    Nancy M. Docherty

    Department of Psychological Sciences
    Professor Emeritus & KSU Distinguished Scholar
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    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

    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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