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92
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World Ranking
161
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76

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 1996 - Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award

Overview

Barbara A. Cornblatt is affiliated with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychiatry and mental health, with significant contributions to schizophrenia research and treatment, bipolar disorder and treatment, and mental health research topics. The scope of their work includes cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology, with particular attention to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

The scientist's body of work emphasizes understanding clinical high-risk states for psychosis and related neurodevelopmental trajectories. Their recent publications reflect ongoing efforts to detail longitudinal studies and predictive tools for psychosis. Notable recent papers include:

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 3): Methods and baseline description, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • Accelerated cortical thinning precedes and predicts conversion to psychosis: The NAPLS3 longitudinal study of youth at clinical high-risk, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ): Rationale and Study Design of the Largest Global Prospective Cohort Study of Clinical High Risk for Psychosis, 2024, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Toward Generalizable and Transdiagnostic Tools for Psychosis Prediction: An Independent Validation and Improvement of the NAPLS-2 Risk Calculator in the Multisite PRONIA Cohort, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Mismatch Negativity in Response to Auditory Deviance and Risk for Future Psychosis in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry

The scientist collaborates frequently with a consistent group of co-authors, which include Diana O. Perkins, Kristin S. Cadenhead, Scott W. Woods, Tyrone D. Cannon, and Daniel H. Mathalon. These collaborations relate closely to their shared focus on psychiatric disorders and clinical risk for psychosis.

Their publications appear most often in key journals and repositories that include UNC Libraries, Schizophrenia Research, Biological Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, and Early Intervention in Psychiatry.

The award recognized in their career is the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award, received in 1996.

Best Publications

  • The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

  • Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: a multisite longitudinal study in North America.

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Kristin Cadenhead;Barbara Cornblatt;Scott W. Woods

  • The Continuous Performance Test, identical pairs version (CPT-IP): I. New findings about sustained attention in normal families.

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Neil J. Risch;Gerald Faris;David Friedman

  • Impaired attention, genetics, and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

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  • Preliminary Findings for Two New Measures of Social and Role Functioning in the Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Andrea M. Auther;Tara A Niendam;Christopher W. Smith

  • Attention, Memory, and Motor Skills as Childhood Predictors of Schizophrenia-Related Psychoses: The New York High-Risk Project

    L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling;Donald Rock;Simone A. Roberts;Malvin Janal

  • Progressive Reduction in Cortical Thickness as Psychosis Develops: A Multisite Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study of Youth at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Yoonho Chung;George He;Daqiang Sun

  • An Individualized Risk Calculator for Research in Prodromal Psychosis

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Changhong Yu;Jean Addington;Carrie E. Bearden

  • The Continuous Performance Test, Identical Pairs version: II. Contrasting attentional profiles in schizophrenic and depressed patients.

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Mark F. Lenzenweger;L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling

  • At clinical high risk for psychosis: Outcome for nonconverters

    Jean Addington;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Validity of the Prodromal Risk Syndrome for First Psychosis: Findings From the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study

    Scott W. Woods;Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Generalized and specific neurocognitive deficits in prodromal schizophrenia.

    Todd Lencz;Todd Lencz;Christopher W. Smith;Danielle McLaughlin;Andrea Auther

  • The Schizophrenia Prodrome Revisited: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Todd Lencz;Christopher W. Smith;Christoph U. Correll

  • Neuropsychology of the Prodrome to Psychosis in the NAPLS Consortium: Relationship to Family History and Conversion to Psychosis

    Larry J. Seidman;Anthony J. Giuliano;Eric C. Meyer;Jean Addington

  • Cognitive and behavioral precursors of schizophrenia.

    Barbara Cornblatt;Michael Obuchowski;Simone Roberts;Simcha Pollack

  • Association of Thalamic Dysconnectivity and Conversion to Psychosis in Youth and Young Adults at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Alan Anticevic;Kristen Haut;John D. Murray;Grega Repovs

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study: A Collaborative Multisite Approach to Prodromal Schizophrenia Research

    Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon;Barbara Cornblatt;Barbara Cornblatt

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 2): overview and recruitment.

    Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Daniel H. Mathalon

  • Negative symptoms in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis

    Danijela Piskulic;Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Sustained Attention in Children at Risk for Schizophrenia: Report on a Continuous Performance Test

    Jacques Rutschmann;Barbara Cornblatt;L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling

  • Generalized and Specific Cognitive Performance in Clinical High-Risk Cohorts: A Review Highlighting Potential Vulnerability Markers for Psychosis

    Warrick J Brewer;Stephen J Wood;Lisa J Phillips;Shona M Francey

  • Association of Neurocognition With Transition to Psychosis: Baseline Functioning in the Second Phase of the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study

    Larry J. Seidman;Daniel I. Shapiro;William S. Stone;Kristen A. Woodberry

  • Can antidepressants be used to treat the schizophrenia prodrome? Results of a prospective, naturalistic treatment study of adolescents.

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Todd Lencz;Christopher W. Smith;Ruth Olsen

  • Risk Factors for Psychosis: Impaired Social and Role Functioning

    Barbara A. Cornblatt;Ricardo E. Carrión;Jean Addington;Larry Seidman;Larry Seidman

  • Research in people with psychosis risk syndrome: a review of the current evidence and future directions

    Christoph U. Correll;Christoph U. Correll;Christoph U. Correll;Marta Hauser;Marta Hauser;Andrea M. Auther;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Barbara A. Cornblatt

  • Nonspecific and attenuated negative symptoms in patients at clinical high-risk for schizophrenia.

    Todd Lencz;Christopher W. Smith;Andrea Auther;Christoph U. Correll

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Robert Heinssen
Robert Heinssen National Institutes of Health
Aysenil Belger
Aysenil Belger University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Theo G.M. van Erp
Theo G.M. van Erp University of California, Irvine
Margaret A. Niznikiewicz
Margaret A. Niznikiewicz Harvard University
Gregory A. Light
Gregory A. Light University of California, San Diego

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