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Vijay A. Mittal is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a focused expertise in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Philosophy.

The main topics covered in their work include schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, mental health and psychiatry, functional brain connectivity studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

Vijay A. Mittal has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Language as a biomarker for psychosis: A natural language processing approach, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • Neighborhood deprivation, prefrontal morphology and neurocognition in late childhood to early adolescence, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Understanding Language Abnormalities and Associated Clinical Markers in Psychosis: The Promise of Computational Methods, 2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Sleep/Wake Regularity Associated with Default Mode Network Structure among Healthy Adolescents and Young Adults, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum: A systematic review and developmental model, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review

The scientist has collaborated frequently with peers in the field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Jason Schiffman (72 co-publications)
  • Lauren M. Ellman (65 co-publications)
  • Gregory P. Strauss (61 co-publications)
  • Katherine S. F. Damme (57 co-publications)
  • Elaine F. Walker (43 co-publications)

Best Publications

  • Stress and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis in the developmental course of schizophrenia.

    Elaine Walker;Vijay Mittal;Kevin Tessner

  • The Stress Cascade and Schizophrenia: Etiology and Onset

    Cheryl Corcoran;Elaine Walker;Rebecca Huot;Vijay Mittal

  • Beyond the FRN: Broadening the time-course of EEG and ERP components implicated in reward processing

    James E. Glazer;Nicholas J. Kelley;Narun Pornpattananangkul;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Alterations in Brain Structures Related to Taste Reward Circuitry in Ill and Recovered Anorexia Nervosa and in Bulimia Nervosa

    Guido K. Frank;Megan E. Shott;Jennifer O. Hagman;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Gene-Environment Interaction and Covariation in Schizophrenia: The Role of Obstetric Complications

    Vijay A. Mittal;Lauren M. Ellman;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Longitudinal Study of Stressful Life Events and Daily Stressors Among Adolescents at High Risk for Psychotic Disorders

    Kevin D. Tessner;Kevin D. Tessner;Vijay Mittal;Vijay Mittal;Elaine F. Walker

  • Language as a biomarker for psychosis: A natural language processing approach.

    Cheryl M. Corcoran;Vijay A. Mittal;Carrie E. Bearden;Raquel E. Gur

  • Neurological Soft Signs Predict Abnormal Cerebellar-Thalamic Tract Development and Negative Symptoms in Adolescents at High Risk for Psychosis: A Longitudinal Perspective

    Vijay A. Mittal;Derek J. Dean;Jessica A. Bernard;Joseph M. Orr

  • Orbitofrontal cortex volume and brain reward response in obesity

    Megan E. Shott;Marc-Andre Cornier;Vijay A. Mittal;Tamara L. Pryor

  • Longitudinal progression of movement abnormalities in relation to psychotic symptoms in adolescents at high risk of schizophrenia.

    Vijay A. Mittal;Craig Neumann;Mary Saczawa;Elaine F. Walker

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

    Vijay A. Mittal;Elaine F. Walker

  • Cerebello-thalamo-cortical networks predict positive symptom progression in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis

    Jessica A. Bernard;Joseph M. Orr;Vijay A. Mittal

  • What Can Different Motor Circuits Tell Us About Psychosis? An RDoC Perspective

    Vijay A Mittal;Jessica A Bernard;Georg Northoff

  • The clinical and prognostic value of motor abnormalities in psychosis, and the importance of instrumental assessment.

    Peter N. van Harten;Sebastian Walther;Jerillyn S. Kent;Scott R. Sponheim

  • Dysfunctional Activation of the Cerebellum in Schizophrenia A Functional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis

    Jessica A. Bernard;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Cerebellar networks in individuals at ultra high-risk of psychosis: impact on postural sway and symptom severity.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Derek J. Dean;Jerillyn S. Kent;Joseph M. Orr

  • Actigraphic-measured sleep disturbance predicts increased positive symptoms in adolescents at ultra high-risk for psychosis: A longitudinal study

    Jessica R. Lunsford-Avery;Monique K. LeBourgeois;Tina Gupta;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Research domain criteria (RDoC) grows up: Strengthening neurodevelopment investigation within the RDoC framework.

    Vijay A. Mittal;Lauren S. Wakschlag

  • Elevated social Internet use and schizotypal personality disorder in adolescents.

    Vijay A. Mittal;Kevin D. Tessner;Elaine F. Walker

  • Movement abnormalities predict conversion to axis I psychosis among prodromal adolescents

    Vijay A. Mittal;Elaine F. Walker

  • Sleep dysfunction and thalamic abnormalities in adolescents at ultra high-risk for psychosis.

    Jessica R. Lunsford-Avery;Jessica R. Lunsford-Avery;Joseph M. Orr;Tina Gupta;Andrea Pelletier-Baldelli

  • The relations among putative biorisk markers in schizotypal adolescents: minor physical anomalies, movement abnormalities, and salivary cortisol.

    Vijay A. Mittal;Shivali Dhruv;Kevin D. Tessner;Deborah J. Walder

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Schiffman
Jason Schiffman University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Elaine F. Walker
Elaine F. Walker Emory University
Gregory P. Strauss
Gregory P. Strauss University of Georgia
Sebastian Walther
Sebastian Walther University of Bern
Jordan E. DeVylder
Jordan E. DeVylder Fordham University
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Stewart A. Shankman
Stewart A. Shankman Northwestern University
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center
Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Randy P. Auerbach
Randy P. Auerbach Columbia University

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