Publications

 

Carter CS, Barch DM. Cognitive neuroscience-based approaches to measuring and improving treatment on cognition in schizophrenia: the CNTRICS initiative. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2007 Sep; 33(5): 1131-1137. PMID: 17630405

Products of First CNTRICS Meeting ("Constructs")

Cohen, JD and Insel, TR. Cognitive neuroscience and schizophrenia: Translational research in need of a translator. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 2-3. PMID: 18549873

Carter CS, Barch DM, Buchanan RW, Bullmore E, Krystal JH, Cohen J, Geyer M, Green M, Nuechterlein KH, Robbins T, Silverstein S, Smith EE, Strauss M, Wykes T, Heinssen R. Identifying cognitive mechanisms targeted for treatment development in schizophrenia: an overview of the first meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia Initiative. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 4-10. PMID: 18466880

Barch, DM, and Smith, E. The cognitive neuroscience of working memory: Relevance to CNTRICS and schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 11-17. PMID: 18400207

Ranganath, C, Minzenberg, MJ, and Ragland, JD. The cognitive neuroscience of memory function and dysfunction in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 18-25. PMID: 18495087

Kerns, JG, Nuechterlein, KH, Braver, TS, and Barch, DM. Executive functioning component mechanisms and schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 26-33. PMID: 18549874

Luck, SJ, and Gold, JM. The construct of attention in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 34-39. PMID: 18374901

Butler, PD, Silverstein, SM, and Dakin, SC. Visual perception and Its Impairment in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 40-47. PMID: 18549875

Oschner, KN. The social-emotional processing stream: Five core constructs and their translational potential for schizophrenia and beyond. Biological Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1; 64(1): 48-61. PMID: 18549876

 

Products of Second CNTRICS Meeting ("Psychometrics and Practicalities")

Barch DM, Carter CS; the CNTRICS Executive Committee. Measurement issues in the use of cognitive neuroscience tasks in drug development for impaired cognition in schizophrenia: A report of the second consensus building conference of the CNTRICS initiative. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008 Jul; 34(4): 613-618. PMID: 18499705

MacDonald, 3rd, AW. Building a clinically relevant cognitive task: Case study of the AX paradigm. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008 Jul; 34(4): 619-28. PMID: 18487225

Luck, SJ and Gold, JM. The translation of cognitive paradigms for patient research. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008 Jul; 34(4): 629-44. PMID: 18487226

Silverstein, SM. Measuring specific, rather than generalized, cognitive deficits and maximizing between group effect size in studies of cognition and cognitive change. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008 Jul; 34(4): 645-655. PMID: 18468987.

Keefe, RSE and Harvey, PD. Implementation considerations for multisite clinical trials with cognitive neuroscience tasks. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008 Jul; 34(4): 656-63. PMID: 18495645

Leon, AC. Implications of clinical trial design on sample size requirements. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 2008 Jul; 34(4): 664-9. PMID: 18469326

 

Products of Third CNTRICS Meeting ("Tasks")

Barch, DM and Carter, CS. Selecting paradigms from cognitive neuroscience that measure CNTRICS constructs: Overview of the third CNTRICS meeting. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Barch, DM, Engle, R, Jonides, J., MacDonald, A. and Nee, D. Task recommendations for the measurement of goal maintenance and interference control in working memory in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Green, MF, Butler, P, Chen, Y, Dakin, S, Geyer, M, Javitt, D, Silverstein, S and Zemon, V. Task recommendation for the measurement of gain control and integration in perception in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Nuechterlein, K., Luck, S and Sarter, M. Task recommendations for the measurement of the control of attention in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Braver, TS, Robbins, T and Barch, DM. Task recommendations for the measurement of rule generation and selection and dynamic adjustments of control in executive function in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Ragland, D, Cools, R, Frank, M, Pizzagalli, D, Ranganath, C and Wagner, A. Task recommendations for the measurement of item and relational encoding and retrieval in episodic memory and reinforcement learning. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Carter, CS, Ocshner, K and Gur, R. Task recommendations for the measurement of affective recognition and evaluation. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.

Carter, CS, Barch, DM, Gur, R, Gur, R, Pinkham, A, Ochsner, K. CNTRICS final task selection: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience based measures. Schizophrenia Bulletin. In preparation.