Excited to share new work led by one of our lab coordinators, Hailey Rich, on atypical semantic priming in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis! Congrats to Hailey and the team! doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

We've spent decades predicting who will "convert" to psychosis — while conversion rates keep falling and the people in our clinics keep struggling. Our new Viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry makes the case: it's time to stop counting conversions.

Congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on leading this project in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open! 🎉 Across 800+ young adults, the team found that greater detection of faces and speech in ambiguous stimuli was associated with psychosis risk and perceptual abnormalities. doi.org/10.1093/schi...

Thank you to University of Chicago for having me as the keynote speaker at their Global Child Mental Health Symposium, and to everyone who came out! crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/...

Some of our current members and fellow alumni/collaborators at SIRS!!

Huge congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social, undergrad senior Taera, Theresa, and Amy!! 🎉 Victor has been working on examining phantom phone vibrations as an understudied, real-world marker of psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

New paper in Schizophrenia Research with Drs. Wing-Chung Chang and Elaine Walker. We review how negative symptoms emerge and evolve across the psychosis spectrum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some exciting news 🎉 The lab was ranked 2nd globally for psychosis research over the past 5 years! So proud of this incredible team and all of our collaborators, what a great year :) scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

Julianna Schuch, a recent Northwestern graduate, makes a call for cultural sensitivity when evaluating nonverbal behaviors in people on the psychosis spectrum in her first lead author publication. Thank you to @daniellepratt.bsky.social for your supervision!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats again to @daniellepratt.bsky.social on leading an impressive meta-analysis of 115 studies, now published in @jama.com Psychiatry. Thank you to all the coauthors as well for pulling off such a major effort! 🎉 doi.org/10.1001/jama...

Processing speed impairment is one of the most functionally important deficits in schizophrenia. In this meta-analysis, Danielle Pratt leads us to synthesize decades of evidence to show that processing speed deficits are large, reliable, and central to the cognitive profile. doi.org/10.1001/jama...

ear Community Members, I am excited to announce we have launched a search to fill a new Position at the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being. Please share this posting, for a Senior Program Coordinator, with anyone you think might be interested.

So excited to share the Anthem video for Northwestern University's Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy...

The lab is recruiting a postdoc. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.adaptprogram.com/join-adapt

Huge congratulations to lab manager @maevehoff.bsky.social on her first-author paper!! Thank you Luzma, @victor-pokorny.bsky.social, @tfwilliams.bsky.social, and CAPR collaborators: Baseline Social Functioning Associated With Increased Likelihood of Remission in a CHR Sample doi.org/10.1093/schi...

Huge congrats to @juliettelozanog.bsky.social, Sophie Parmacek, and all our CAPR collaborators on this exciting new Nature Schizophrenia publication! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to post doc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on his new commentary on Miller & Chapman (2001), accepted in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! 👏 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

Had such a great time yesterday at the 2025 DevSci Holiday Scientific Symposium!! Thank you everyone for coming :)

Check out our new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin showing that ethnoracial discrimination is linked to more psychotic-like experiences, partly through cannabis and other substance use. Great work Zeeshan Huque, Thomas Olino, Jason Schiffman, and Lauren Ellman!! doi.org/10.1093/schb...

Huge congratulations to Sophie, our asssessment specialist at ADAPT Lab on the publication of her new paper in Schizophrenia Research: Cognition! So proud to see you and @daniellepratt.bsky.social's research shine in this important work. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001325000599

Another great achievement from the AMP® SCZ initiative: building a global pipeline for speech, facial, and acoustic markers of psychosis risk. nature.com/articles/s41537-025-00669-z

Huge congrats to @jessicafattal.bsky.social, 4th year grad student: “Altered top-down modulation of electrodermal responses to sudden auditory stimuli in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis.” Great work Ajay Nadig, Ivanka Ristanovic, K. Juston Osborne, Claudia M. Haase!! 👏👏

New in Nature Schizophrenia!! “Shift in sex and age of individuals at a clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis: relation to differences in recruitment methods and effect on sample characteristics” (Farina et al., 2025). 📖 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🧠 New in Schizophrenia Research: Sensorimotor & psychomotor dysfunctions in SSD are not just med side effects but emerging as core features for early detection. @victor-pokorny.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Lab photo at SRP 🙂 Was so great to see everyone!

We are worried about our students. There is a misapprehension that behaving "unhappy" gives an impression of worldliness or that it signals empathy to the world’s problems. What is worse- suppressing happiness changes your capacity for joy. www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

This piece includes a critical perspective we all need to be paying more attention to!

The lab will be reviewing applications for graduate training this cycle. Please share with anyone that might be interested in applying.

Congrats to graduate student Vanessa Zarubin on her new paper published in J Psychopathol Clin Sci & co-authors! 🎉🎉 Early childhood dyadic interactions predict psychotic-like experiences at adolescence, pointing to early vulnerability markers. DOI: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

New article in American Journal of Psychiatry with Dusan Hirjak, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, and Georg Northoff on the future of sensorimotor and psychomotor dysfunction in mental disorders: emerging tools, challenges, and the road ahead. Check it out: doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20250533

Wonderful work from Kate- the lab is proud of you!! Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2837717?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=081925

So proud to be working with Greg and the CAN lab- check out this media report on the awesome work they are doing! oibr.uga.edu/uga-research...

New SZ Research article: Digital phenotyping evidence for reduced positivity offset as a mechanism underlying anhedonia in people at clinical high-risk for psychosis Read more here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article in Schizophrenia Bulletin: @ivanka13.bsky.social, @daniellepratt.bsky.social @gregstrauss and I used EMA to explore how momentary negative emotions relate to attenuated delusions in CHR Check out here: doi-org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/10.1093/schb...

Group photo taken after some undergraduates presented their summer projects/posters. Great work everyone!

Very exciting lab update! 🎉 We’re so thrilled to officially welcome Zach Anderson as a postdoc. Zach is returning to Northwestern after earning his PhD here. His work focuses on computational models that characterize neural circuits underlying depression, psychosis, and emotion related processes.

Congratulations to coordinator Madison Stevens on her first-author publication: Subjective emotional experiences in clinical high-risk youth!! @madisonstevens @jessicafattal.bsky.social @daniellepratt.bsky.social @lillianfu @claudiahaas.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Congrats @ivanka13.bsky.social , @daniellepratt.bsky.social , @GregoryStrauss on a new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin! Temporal Relationship Between Momentary Negative Affect Intensity and Momentary Attenuated Delusions in Individuals at Clinical High-risk for Psychosis doi.org/10.1093/schb...

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Another big congrats to Juliette on her continued work in the automatic quantification of gestures! 👏👏 @juliettelozanog.bsky.social 🔗 doi-org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/10.1016/j.ja...

Congrats to ADAPT Mentees and Student collaborators graduating today! Such a thrill to celebrate you as you move on to the next steps in your journey.

Another exciting paper out!! Using point-light displays, depressive symptoms were shown to be linked to difficulty recognizing neutral emotions in body movement without facial cues. doi-org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/10.1016/j.ja...

Huge congrats to post doc @juliettelozanog.bsky.social .social on this amazing work published in @nature.com !!! 🎉 Juliette has been using novel machine learning tools to track gesture in CHR populations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very excited about this amazing news and opportunity! news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025... @nupress.bsky.social @tgsatnu.bsky.social

So excited to share this- it came out today! @annualreviews.bsky.social @nupress.bsky.social

Huge congrats to Nashya Linares, research coordinator in the lab who will be starting graduate school soon! :) We are so proud of you!!

Some big milestones for the AMP Schizophrenia Program! Sample ascertainment and clinical outcome measures: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Data analysis strategies: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Enabling FAIR data stewardship: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big congrats to ADAPT postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on his new paper on functional correlates of atypical visuoperceptual organization in a multisite CHR sample! 🎉 Read it in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science: doi.org/10.1037/abn0... We’re so proud of you, Victor! 👏

Excited to share this new publication in Nature: "Bridging Science and Hope: Integrating and Communicating Lived Experience in AMP® SCZ" 📖 Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🎥 Watch the discussion w/ Drs. Kapur, Lewandowski & Larrauri: vimeo.com/1050068801

An amazing opportunity!