Department of Psychology

Alex Cohen

Assistant Professor

Clinical Area

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206 Audubon Hall,
Department of Psychology,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone:(225)-578-7017
fax:(225)-578-4125

acohen@lsu.edu

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EDUCATION:

2004-2006 Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Maryland, College Park

2004 Ph.D., Clinical Psychology Kent State University

2003-2004 Predoctoral Clinical Internship University of Maryland School of Medicine

1998 B.S., Psychology Portland State University

TEACHING:

Professional Considerations in Psychology (PSYCH 7999)

Adult Psychopathology (PSYC7962)

Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 3082)

Undergraduate Practicum and Research (PSYC 2999/4999)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My laboratory focuses on understanding how emotional and neurocognitive abnormalities contribute to social dysfunction in schizophrenia. Current projects include the following:

Developing sophisticated measures of key negative symptoms using computerized analysis of natural speech.
Clarifying how emotion abnormalities vary across the heterogeneous manifestations of schizophrenia.
Disentangling the relative contributions of motivational and neuropsychological factors for understanding long-term social dysfunction in schizophrenia.
Examining the relationship between negative symptoms and stress-reactivity in patients with schizophrenia and individuals at risk for developing the disorder.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Cohen, Alex s., Minor, Kyle S., Najolia, Gina., Hong, Siang L. (In Press). A Laboratory-based Procedure for Measuring Emotional _Expression from Natural Speech. Behavior Research Methods.

Cohen, Alex S., Collins, Lindsay M., Mann, Monica C., Forbes, Courtney B., Blanchard, Jack J. (In press). Schizophrenia-Spectrum Characteristics in the Parents of Social Anhedonics. Psychiatry Research.

St. Hillaire, Annie, Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (In press). Emotional Word Use in the Conversational Speech of Schizophrenia Patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry.

Cohen, Alex S.,Minor, Kyle S. (In press). Emotional Experience in Patients with Schizophrenia Re-revisited: Meta-analysis of Laboratory Studies. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Cohen, Alex S., St. Hillaire, Annie, Aakres, Jennifer M, Docherty, Nancy M. (In press). Understanding Anhedonia in Schizophrenia through Lexical Analysis of Natural Speech. Cognition and Emotion.

Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Docherty, Nancy M. (In press). Attribution Biases in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Clinical and Functional Impairments. Psychopathology.

Cohen, Alex S., Minor, Kyle S., Baillie, Lauren S., Dahir, Amanda (In press). Clarifying the Linguistic Signature: Measuring Personality from Natural Speech. Journal of Personality Assessment.

Cohen, Alex S., Alpert, Murray, Nienow, Tasha M., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Docherty, Nancy M. (2008). Computerized Analysis of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 42 (10), p.827-836,

Cohen, Alex S., Saperstein, Alice M., Gold, Jim., Kirkpatrick, Brian, Carpenter, William T. Jr., Buchanan, Robert W., (2007). Neuropsychology of the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia: New Data and Meta-analysis of Findings to Date. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 33: 1201-1212

Blanchard, Jack J., Cohen, Alex S., Carreno, Jay. (2007). Schizophrenia. in Emotion and Psychopathology: Bridging Affective and Clinical Science. Rottenberg, Jonathan; Johnson, Sheri L.; Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2007. pp. 103-122.

Cohen, Alex S., Leung, Winnie W., Saperstein, Alice M., Blanchard, Jack J., (2006). Neuropsychological Functioning and Social Anhedonia: Results from a Community High Risk Study. Schizophrenia Research. 85, 132-141.

Cohen, Alex S., Junginger, John. (2006). A Working Typology of Delusions. Schizophrenia Research. 83-2/3, 293-295.

Cohen, Alex S., Forbes, Courtney B., Mann, Monica C., Blanchard, Jack J. (2006). Specific Cognitive Deficits and Differential Domains of Social Functioning Impairment in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 81-2/3, 227-238.

Blanchard, Jack J., Cohen, Alex S. (2006). The structure of negative symptoms within schizophrenia: Implications for Assessment. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 32-3, 238-245.

Cohen, Alex S., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Nienow, Tasha. M., Smith, Doug A., Singer, Beth, Docherty, Nancy M. (2005). Diminished emotionality and social functioning in schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous & Mental Diseases.

Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy. (2005). Effects of Positive Emotion on Speech Disorder in Patients with Schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases.

Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (2004). Negative vs. Deficit syndrome: Prediction of Attentional Impairment. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 30-4, 827 – 835.

Cohen, Alex S., Nienow, Tasha M, Dinzeo, Thomas J, Docherty, Nancy M. (2004). Stress and the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. 66-4, 308 – 316.

Cohen, Alex S., Docherty, Nancy M. (2004). Affective Reactivity of Speech and Emotional Experience in Patients with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 69-1, 7 – 14.

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