| Abstract: | Announces Deanna M. Barch as a recipient of the Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology for 2002. A biographical statement is included, along with major works and contributions for the field. Barch received this award for research on the relationship between clinical, cognitive, and neurobiological disturbances in schizophrenia. Using behavioral methods, functional neuroimaging, and computational modeling, her work has taken ideas from basic research on the function of prefrontal cortex and used these to dissect the specific contribution that prefrontal deficits make to cognitive abnormalities in attention, memory, and language in schizophrenia and their expression as clinical symptoms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
