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Amy E. Pinkham is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their scholarly contributions primarily span the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant attention to psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy. The focus of their research includes schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, mental health and psychiatry, bipolar disorder and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, functional brain connectivity studies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Pinkham's recent publications include:

  • A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Individuals with Pre-existing Severe Mental Illnesses (2020, Psychiatry Research)
  • Autistic Symptoms and Social Cognition Predict Real-World Outcomes in Patients With Schizophrenia (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • Self-reported Social Functioning and Social Cognition in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify the Origin of Bias (2021, Schizophrenia Research)
  • Owner of a Lonely Mind? Social Cognitive Capacity Is Associated with Objective, but Not Perceived Social Isolation in Healthy Individuals (2021, Journal of Research in Personality)
  • Feasibility and Validity of Ecological Momentary Cognitive Testing Among Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (2022, Frontiers in Digital Health)

Their collaborative work often involves a core group of frequent co-authors, notably Philip D. Harvey, Colin A. Depp, Raeanne C. Moore, David L. Penn, and Robert A. Ackerman.

Amy E. Pinkham has published extensively in various venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

The research undertaken by Pinkham addresses several complex topics in mental health, focusing particularly on serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Their approach includes experimental studies in cognitive neuroscience and psychiatric research, addressing both symptomatology and treatment outcomes. This includes applying ecological momentary assessment strategies to better understand social cognition and functioning in psychiatric populations.

Best Publications

  • Implications for the Neural Basis of Social Cognition for the Study of Schizophrenia

    Amy E. Pinkham;David L. Penn;Diana O. Perkins;Jeffrey Lieberman

  • The Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation Study: Results of the Expert Survey and RAND Panel

    Amy E. Pinkham;David L. Penn;Michael F. Green;Benjamin Buck

  • Neural bases for impaired social cognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders

    Amy E. Pinkham;Joseph B. Hopfinger;Kevin A. Pelphrey;Joseph Piven

  • Neurocognitive and social cognitive predictors of interpersonal skill in schizophrenia

    Amy E. Pinkham;David L. Penn

  • Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation: Results of the Initial Psychometric Study

    Amy E. Pinkham;David L. Penn;Michael F. Green;Philip D. Harvey

  • Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation: Results of the Final Validation Study.

    Amy E Pinkham;Amy E Pinkham;Philip D Harvey;David L Penn;David L Penn

  • Emotion perception and social skill over the course of psychosis: a comparison of individuals "at-risk" for psychosis and individuals with early and chronic schizophrenia spectrum illness.

    Amy E. Pinkham;David L. Penn;Diana O. Perkins;Karen A. Graham

  • The face in the crowd effect: anger superiority when using real faces and multiple identities.

    Amy E. Pinkham;Mark Griffin;Robert Baron;Noah J. Sasson

  • Social cognition in schizophrenia.

    Amy E. Pinkham

  • Determinants of different aspects of everyday outcome in schizophrenia: The roles of negative symptoms, cognition, and functional capacity.

    Martin T. Strassnig;Tenko Raykov;Cedric O'Gorman;Christopher R. Bowie

  • Evaluating Posed and Evoked Facial Expressions of Emotion from Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Daniel J. Faso;Noah J. Sasson;Amy E. Pinkham;Amy E. Pinkham

  • Social cognition, social skill, and the broad autism phenotype:

    Noah J Sasson;Rachel B Nowlin;Amy E Pinkham

  • Social Cognition, Social Competence, Negative Symptoms and Social Outcomes: Inter-relationships in People With Schizophrenia

    Marc Kalin;Sara Kaplan;Felicia Gould;Amy E. Pinkham

  • The benefit of directly comparing autism and schizophrenia for revealing mechanisms of social cognitive impairment

    Noah J. Sasson;Amy E. Pinkham;Kimberly L. H. Carpenter;Aysenil Belger

  • CNTRICS Final Task Selection: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience–Based Measures

    Cameron S. Carter;M Deanna;Ruben Gur;Raquel Gur

  • Actively paranoid patients with schizophrenia over attribute anger to neutral faces

    Amy E. Pinkham;Amy E. Pinkham;Colleen Brensinger;Christian Kohler;Raquel E. Gur

  • Cognitive empathy contributes to poor social functioning in schizophrenia: Evidence from a new self-report measure of cognitive and affective empathy

    Tania M. Michaels;William P. Horan;Emily J. Ginger;Zoran Martinovich

  • Resting quantitative cerebral blood flow in schizophrenia measured by pulsed arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI

    Amy Pinkham;James Loughead;Kosha Ruparel;Wen Chau Wu

  • Age-related increase of resting metabolic rate in the human brain

    Shin Lei Peng;Shin Lei Peng;Julie A. Dumas;Denise C. Park;Peiying Liu

  • Controlling for Response Biases Clarifies Sex and Age Differences in Facial Affect Recognition

    Noah J. Sasson;Amy E. Pinkham;Jan Richard;Paul Hughett

  • The Other-Race Effect in Face Processing Among African American and Caucasian Individuals With Schizophrenia

    Amy E. Pinkham;Noah J. Sasson;Monica E. Calkins;Jan Richard

  • A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Individuals with Pre-existing Severe Mental Illnesses.

    Amy E. Pinkham;Robert A. Ackerman;Colin A. Depp;Philip D. Harvey

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Penn
David L. Penn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip D. Harvey
Philip D. Harvey University of Miami
Noah J. Sasson
Noah J. Sasson The University of Texas at Dallas
Colin A. Depp
Colin A. Depp University of California, San Diego
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
James Loughead
James Loughead University of Pennsylvania
Eric Granholm
Eric Granholm University of California, San Diego
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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