Updated 02/2016
CURRICULUM VITA
Alex S. Cohen, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Louisiana State University
206 Audubon Hall
Baton Rouge, LA. 70803
Email:
Phone: (225) 578.7017
Fax: (225) 578.4125
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Birthplace: Sacramento, CA Home Address: Baton Rouge, LA
Citizenship: United States of America Birth date: July 19, 1973
CLINICAL LICENSURE
License # 1033 State of Louisiana – Granted by the Louisiana Board of Examiners of Psychology
APPOINTMENTSHIPS:
09/2013 – Present Adjunct Professor Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
06/2013 – Present Executive Board National Alliance on Mental Illness, Baton Rouge, LA
08/2012 – Present Associate Professor Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology
08/2010 – Present Adjunct Professor Louisiana State University Health Sciences University
08/2006 – 2012 Assistant Professor Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology
06/2004 – 06/2006 Research Associate University of Maryland, College Park
Mentor: Jack Blanchard, Ph.D.
EDUCATION:
08/1998 – 06/2004 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology Kent State University
Mentor: Nancy Docherty, Ph.D.
Predoctoral clinical internship: University of Maryland, School of Medicine.
08/1993 – 06/1998 B.S. Psychology Portland State University
Graduated with Honors
FUNDING:
Pending K.G. Jebsen Center for Research and Excellence in Personalized Health Decision Support. Grant to a private European Foundation (~$7,000,000).
WP Co-Leader: Alex S Cohen
Pending Decision Support System for Patient Driven Monitoring of Cognitive Decline (~$6,000,000). Grant to the European Union.
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
Pending Multi-modal ecological momentary assessment of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide”. Grant to the Military Suicide Research Consortium.
Co Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2015 – 2016 Norwegian Research Council. Phase II Project Funding. Virtual House Doctor (~ $87,804.65).
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2015 – 2019 Helse Nord (Northern Norway’s Health Authority). Reducing misdiagnosis and developing critical objective phenotypes of severe mental illness (~ $390,000).
Co-Investigator/Mentor: Alex S Cohen
2014 – 2017 Norwegian Research Council. Diagnostic Support System Development for the Monitoring of Psychosis (~ $1,300,000 total).
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2014 – 2015 Minimizing Driver Errors: Detecting Unexpected Targets in Familiar Environments. (~ $56,532 total).
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2014 – 2017 Psychological Externship: Our Lady of the Lake Psychiatry Dept. ($49,932)
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2014 - 2015 BOR Enhancement – Psychology Department EEG Neuroscience Lab ($102,811)
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2008 – 2017 Psychological Externship: East Louisiana State Hospital. ($254,200)
Co-Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2010 – 2013 NIMH R03 – 2011 – 2013: NIMH R03 (1R03MH092622-01) – Identifying the Vocal Markers of Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders (~ $225,000 total).
Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2008 - 2013 NIMH (1P50MH082999-01). Centers for Intervention Development and Applied Research (CIDAR).
Principal Investigator – William Carpenter.
2008 - 2011 Louisiana Board of Regents Grant – Understanding Negative Symptoms Using Novel Technologies (~ $100,000 total).
Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2010 Manship Summer Research Fellowship: Optimizing Computer-Based Measures of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2007-2008 Faculty Development Grant: Computerized Assessment of Negative Symptoms
Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen
2007 Council On Research Summer Stipend: Computerized Assessment of Negative Symptoms in Individuals At-Risk for Schizophrenia
Principal Investigator: Alex S Cohen
FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS:
2016 LSU Rainmaker Mid-Career Scholar award
2012 “Faces of the Future” – Society for Research in Psychopathology
2012 Nicholson Award for Outstanding Faculty Member
2007 International Congress on Schizophrenia Research Young Investigator Award
2003 Kent State University Grad. Student Senate (GSS) - Research achievement award.
2003 Kent State University Applied Psychology Clinic (APC) - Publication award.
2002 Friedman Fellowship for “Outstanding contributions to the field of mental health”.
2002 Kent State University APC - Research fellowship award.
PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
1. Elvevag, Brita, Cohen, Alex S., Wolters, Maria, Whalley, Heather, Gountouna, Viktoria-Eleni, Kuznetsova, Ksenia, Watson, Andrew, Nicodemus, Kristin (In Press). An Examination of the Language Construct in NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria: Time for Reconceptualization! American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B. Neuropsychiatric Genetics.
2. Cohen, Alex S., Mitchell, Kyle R., Docherty, Nancy M., Horan, William P. (2016). Vocal expression in schizophrenia: Less than meets the ear. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 125(2). 299-309
3. Cohen, Alex S., Callaway, Dallas A., Mitchell, Kyle R., Larsen, Jeff T., Strauss, Gregory P. (2016). A temporal examination of co-activated emotion valence networks in schizophrenia and schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research. 170(2-3). 322-329
4. Cohen, Alex S., Renshaw, Tyler, Mitchell, Kyle, Chun, Yunjung. (2015). A psychometric investigation of “Macroscopic” speech measures for clinical and psychological science. Behavior Research Methods. 1-12
5. Cohen, Alex S., Dinzeo, Thomas J., Donovan, Neila J., Brown, Caitlin, Morrison, Sean C. (2015). Vocal acoustic analysis as a biometric indicator of information processing: implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Psychiatry Research. 226(1). 235-241.
6. Cohen, Alex S., Park, Sohee, Mohr, Christine, Ettinger, Ulrich, Chan, Raymond (2015). Schizotypy as an organizing framework for social and affective sciences. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41. 427-435.
7. Ettinger, Ulrich, Mohr, Christine, Gooding, Diane D., Cohen, Alex S., Rapp, Alexander, Park, Sohee. (2015). Cognition and Brain Function in Schizotypy. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41. 417-426
8. Pow, Joni. L., Baumeister, Alan. A., Hawkins, Michael. F., Cohen, Alex. S., & Garand, J. C. (2015). Deinstitutionalization of American Public Hospitals for the Mentally Ill Before and After the Introduction of Antipsychotic Medications. Harvard review of psychiatry, 23(3), 176-187
9. Minor, Kyle, Luther, Lauren, Auster, Tracey, Marggraf, Matthew, Cohen, Alex S (2015). Category fluency in psychometric schizotypy: How altering emotional valence and cognitive load affects performance. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 20(6) 542-550
10. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey E., Callaway, Dallas, MaCaulay, Rebecca, Minor, Kyle. (2014). Neurocognitive underpinnings of language disorder: Contrasting schizophrenia and mood disorders. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 5(4). 492-502
11. MacAulay, Rebbeca, McGovern, Jessica., Cohen, Alex S. (2014) Self-Conscious Emotions' Role in Functional Outcomes within Clinical Populations. Psychiatry Research. 216. 17-23.
12. Cohen, Alex S., McGovern, Jessica E., Dinzeo, Thomas, Covington, Michael (2014). Speech deficits in severe mental illness: A cognitive resource issue?. Schizophrenia Research. 160. 173-179.
13. Cohen, Alex S., Mitchell, Kyle. Brita Elvavag. (2014). What do we really know about blunted vocal affect and alogia? A meta-analysis of objective assessments. Schizophrenia Research. 159(2-3). 533-538.
14. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey R., McGovern, Jessica E., MaCaulay, Rebecca (2014). The normalities and abnormalities associated with speech in schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research. 160. 169-172.
15. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey R., McGovern, Jessica E. (2014). Illusory Superiority and Schizotypal Personality: Explaining the Discrepancy Between Subjective/Objective Psychopathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. 5(4). 413-418.
16. Cohen, Alex S., Elvevaag, Brita (2014). Automated computerized analysis of speech in psychiatric disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 27(3). 203-209.
17. Musso, Mandi, Auster, Tracey R., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Using the MOCA to measure neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research. 220. 664-668
18. Minor, Kyle S., Firmin, Ruth L., Bonfils, Kelsey A., Chun, Charlotte, A, Buckner, J.D., Cohen, Alex S (2014). Predicting creativity: the role of psychometric schizotypy and cannabis use in divergent thinking. Psychiatry Research. 220. 205-210,
19. Bedwell, Jeffrey S., Trachik, Benjamin J., Cohen, Alex S., Deptula, Andrew E., Mitchell, Jonathan C. (2014). Speech Prosody Abnormalities and Specific Dimensional Schizotypy Features: Are Relationships Limited to Males? Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 202(10). 745-751.
20. Morrison, Sean C., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). The moderating effects of perceived intentionality: exploring the relationships between ideas of reference, paranoia and social anxiety in schizotypy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 19(6). 527-539.
21. MacAulay, Rebecca, K, Brown, Laura A., Kyle M, Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Conceptualizing schizotypal ambivalence: Factor structure and its relationships. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. 202(11). 793-801.
22. Cohen, Alex S., Auster, Tracey MacAulay, Rebecca, McGovern, Jessica. (2014). The paradox of schizotypy: resemblance to prolonged severe mental illness in subjective but not objective quality of life. Psychiatry Research. 217(3). 185-190
23. Auster, Tracey, Brown, Laura A., Cohen, Alex S. (2014). Objective and Subjective Olfactory Ratings across the Schizophrenia-Spectrum. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes. 77(1). 57-66.
24. Callaway, Dallas A., Cohen, Alex S., Matthews, Russell A (2014). Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire – Brief Revised: Psychometric replication and extension. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment. 5(1). 32-38.
25. Gooding, Diane, C., Cohen, Alex S., Pflum, Madeline, J. (2014). Hedonic Capacity in Schizotypy: Evidence for the criterion validity of the ACIPS. Comprehensive Psychiatry.
26. Cohen, Alex S., Morrison, Sean C., Callaway, Dallas. (2013). Computerized facial analysis for understanding constricted/blunted affect: initial feasibility, reliability and validity data. Schizophrenia Research.148-1/3. 111-116,
27. MacAulay, Rebecca, Cohen, Alex S. (2013). Affecting Coping: Does neurocognition predict approach and avoidant coping strategies within schizophrenia spectrum disorders? Psychiatry Research. 209-2. 136-141.
28. Morrison, Sean, Brown, Laura A., Cohen, Alex S. (2013). A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Social Cognition in Schizotypy. Psychiatry Research. 210-3. 1014-1019.
29. Renshaw, Tyler L., Cohen, Alex S. (2014) Further validation of the two-continuua model of mental health: life satisfaction as a key indicator of college student functioning. Social Indicators Research. 117(1). 319-334
30. Stewart, Diana, Vinci, Christine, Adams, Claire, Cohen, Alex S., Copeland, Amy L (2013). Smoking Topography and Outcome Expectancies among Individuals with Schizotypy. Psychiatry Research. 205, 205-212
31. Cohen, Alex S., Kim, Yungjung, Najolia, Gina M. (2013). Psychiatric Symptom versus Neurocognitive Correlates of Diminished Expressivity in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders. Schizophrenia Research.146, 249-253
32. Chun, Charlotte A., Minor, Kyle S., Cohen, Alex S (2013). Neurocognition in psychometrically-defined schizotypy: We are NOT measuring the “right stuff”. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. 19-3, 324-339.
33. Cohen, Alex S., Callaway, Dallas A, Najolia, Gina M, Larsen, Jeff T, Strauss, Gregory P. (2012). On risk and reward: state anhedonia in psychometrically-defined schizotypy but not schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121-2. 407-415.
34. Baumeister, Alan A., Hawkins, Mike F, Pow, Joni L, Cohen, Alex S., (2012). Prevalence and incidence of severe mental illness in the United States: An historical overivew. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 142, 65-70
35. Cohen, Alex S. Morrison, Sean, Brown, Laura A., Minor, Kyle M (2012). Towards a cognitive resource limitations model of diminished expressivity in schizotypy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121-1. 109-118.
36. Llerena, Katiah, Strauss, Gregory P, Cohen, Alex S., (2012) Looking at the other side of the coin: A Meta-analysis of self-reported emotional arousal in people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 142-1/3. 65-70
37. Cohen, Alex S., Najolia, Gina M, Kim, Yungjung, Dinzeo, Thomas J. (2012). On the boundaries of blunt affect and alogia: Expressive deficits as potential research domain criteria. Schizophrenia Research. 140-1/3. 41-45
38. Cohen, Alex S., Brown, Laura A., Auster, Tracey L. (2012). Clarifying the nature of olfaction deficits in the schizophrenia-prone: "clinical high-risk state" versus "vulnerability". Schizophrenia Research. 139-1/3. 262-263
39. Cohen, Alex S, Couture, Shannon A, Blanchard, Jack J. (2012). Neuropsychological functioning and social anhedonia: Three-year follow-up data from a longitudinal community high risk study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 46-7. 898-904.
40. Najolia, Gina M, Buckner, Julia D., Cohen, Alex S. (2012). Cannabis use and schizotypy: The role of social anxiety. Psychiatry Research. 189-2. 233-238.
41. Cohen, Alex S., Brown, Laura, Auster, Tracey (2012). Olfaction, “Olfiction” and the Schizophrenia-Spectrum. Schizophrenia Research. 135. 152-157
42. Cohen, Alex S., Najolia, Gina M., Brown, Laura A., Minor, Kyle S. (2011). The state-trait disjunction of anhedonia in schizophrenia: Potential affective, cognitive and social-based mechanisms. Clinical Psychology Review. 31-3. 440-448.
43. Minor, Kyle S., Cohen, Alex S. (2012) The Role of Atypical Semantic Activation and Stress in odd speech: Implications for individuals with psychometrically defined schizotypy. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 46-9. 1231-1236.
44. Cohen, Alex S. Hong, S. Lee (2011). Understanding Constricted Affect in Schizotypy through Computerized Prosodic Analysis. Journal of Personality Disorders. 25-4. 448-491
45. Vigna, Julia V., Reuther, Erin T., Cohen, Alex S., (2011). The Comorbidity of Psychotic Symptoms and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Evidence for a Specifier in DSM-V. Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses. 5-3. 147-154.
46. Strauss, Gregory, Gold, Jim, Cohen, Alex S. (2011). Response to “Anticipatory vs. consummatory pleasure: what is the nature of hedonic deficits in schizophrenia?”. Psychiatry Research 187 – 1/2. 36-41
47. Najolia, Gina M, Cohen, Alex S. (2011). A laboratory study of affectivity in Schizotypy: Subjective and Lexical analysis. Psychiatry Research. 189-2. 233-238.
48. Blanchard, Jack J., Collins, Lindsay M., Aghevli, Minu, Leung, Winnie W., Cohen, Alex S. (2011). Social Anhedonia and Schizotypy in a Community Sample: The Maryland Longitudinal Study of Schizotypy. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 37-3. 587-602
49. Cohen, Alex S, Buckner, Julia D, Najolia, Gina M, Stewart, Diana W. (2011). Cannabis and Psychometrically-Defined Schizotypy: Use, Problems and Treatment Considerations. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45-4. 548-554.
50. Cohen, Alex S., Najolia, Gina M. (2011). Birth Characteristics and Schizotypy: Evidence of a Potential “Second Hit”. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45-7. 955 – 961
51. Cohen, Alex S., Beck, Melissa R., Najolia, Gina M., Brown, Laura A. (2011). Affective disturbances in psychometrically defined schizotypy across direct, but not indirect assessment modes. Schizophrenia Research. 128 – 1-3. 136-142.
52. Minor, Kyle S., Cohen, Alex S., Weber, Christopher, Brown, Laura A. (2011). The relationship between atypical semantic activation and odd speech in schizotypy. Schizophrenia Research. 126-1-3. 144-149
53. Cohen, Alex S., Matthews, Russell, Najolia, Gina, M., Brown, Laura A. (2010). Towards a more Psychometrically-Sound Brief Measure of Schizotypy: Improving the SPQ-B. Journal of Personality Disorders. 24. 516 - 537
54. Cohen, Alex S., Minor, Kyle S. (2010). Emotional Experience in Patients with Schizophrenia Re-revisited: Meta-analysis of Laboratory Studies. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 36-1, 143-150
55. Cohen, Alex S., Hong, Lee S., Guevara, Alvero. (2010) Understanding Emotional Expression Using Prosodic Analysis of Natural Speech: Refining the Methodology. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 41-2, 150-157
56. Cohen, Alex S., Beck, Melissa R, Najolia, Gina, Brown, Laura A (2010). Decoupling Implicit Measures of Pleasant and Unpleasant Social Attitudes. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 41-1, 260-268
57. Brown, Laura A., Cohen, Alex S., (2010) Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizotypy: The Role of Accuracy and Social Cognitive Bias. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. 16-3, 474-483
58. Cohen, Alex S., Brown, Laura A. Minor, Kyle S. (2010). The Psychiatric Symptomatology of Deficit Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis. Schizophrenia Research. 118-1-3, 122-127
59. Stewart, Diana W., Cohen, Alex S., Copeland, Amy L. (2010). Schizotypy and Cigarette Smoking in a Non-clinical Sample of Young Adults. Psychiatry Research. 179-1, 113-115