Mittal ADAPT Lab
@vijayamittal.bsky.social
A lab that focuses on developmental psychopathology, brain science, risk factors and interventions for psychosis.
https://www.adaptprogram.com/
https://www.adaptprogram.com/
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! 🎉
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Processing Speed Impairment in Schizophrenia
This meta-analysis provides an updated review of the evidence for a central processing speed impairment in people with schizophrenia.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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...
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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...
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...
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December 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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...
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.
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.
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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.
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...
Northwestern's Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being Anthem Video
YouTube video by Vijay Mittal
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December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The lab is recruiting a postdoc. Please share with anyone who might be interested.
www.adaptprogram.com/join-adapt
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...
Baseline Social Functioning is associated with increased likelihood of Remission from a Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis Syndrome
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Most individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) will not develop psychosis. Moreover, a proportion of individ
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November 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spontaneous head movements during virtual clinical interviews help predict 12-months clinical outcomes in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Spontaneous head movements during virtual clinical interviews help predict 12-months clinical outcomes in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis
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November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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...
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! 👏
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APA PsycNet
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November 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
Had such a great time yesterday at the 2025 DevSci Holiday Scientific Symposium!! Thank you everyone for coming :)
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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...
Great work Zeeshan Huque, Thomas Olino, Jason Schiffman, and Lauren Ellman!!
doi.org/10.1093/schb...
November 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
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
So proud to see you and @daniellepratt.bsky.social's research shine in this important work.
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001325000599
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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
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
nature.com/articles/s41537-025-00669-z
Collecting language, speech acoustics, and facial expression to predict psychosis and other clinical outcomes: strategies from the AMP® SCZ initiative - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Collecting language, speech acoustics, and facial expression to predict psychosis and other clinical outcomes: strategies from the AMP® SCZ initiative
nature.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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
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!! 👏👏
Great work Ajay Nadig, Ivanka Ristanovic, K. Juston Osborne, Claudia M. Haase!! 👏👏
Northwestern SSO
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October 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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!! 👏👏
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...
“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...
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 - Schizophrenia
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
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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...
“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...
Sensorimotor & psychomotor dysfunctions in SSD are not just med side effects but emerging as core features for early detection. @victor-pokorny.bsky.social
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Redirecting
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October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
🧠 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...
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!
October 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
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Opinion | How Young People Learn to Be Unhappy
By focusing so heavily on stress and depression, we’ve given them the idea that misery is virtuous.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
This piece includes a critical perspective we all need to be paying more attention to!
Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment
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Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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.
September 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
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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...
APA PsycNet
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September 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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...
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
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
Future of Sensorimotor and Psychomotor Dysfunction in Mental Disorders: Emerging Tools, Methodological Challenges, and the Road Ahead | American Journal of Psychiatry
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
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September 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
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
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
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
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!
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UGA Researcher Plays Key Role in Landmark International Study Aimed at Preventing SchizophreniaUGA Researcher Plays Key Role in Landmark International Study Aimed at Preventing Schizophrenia – Owens...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So proud to be working with Greg and the CAN lab- check out this media report on the awesome work they are doing!
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New SZ Research article: Digital phenotyping evidence for reduced positivity offset as a mechanism underlying anhedonia in people at clinical high-risk for psychosis
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August 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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...
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...
@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...
Northwestern SSO
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July 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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...
@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...