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Here are the student theses for which Dr. Kurtz was an advisor.
Elissa Kate Kozlov ’08 — Aging While Incarcerated: A Qualitative Study of Geriatric Prisoners in America
Sarah Bird Jeffery ’09 — Elementary Neurocognition, Learning Potential, and Functional Life Skills: What is the Relationship?
Suzanna Brooke Hirsch ’10 — ERP Correlates of Procedural Learning: Designing a Task for Children with Autism
Ari Tolman ’10 — The Neurocognitive Determinants of Objective and Subjective Quality of Life in Individuals with Schizophrenia: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis
Lennox Emmanuel Byer ’12 — The Longitudinal Relationships Between Symptoms and Cognition in Schizophrenia
Melanie Faye Bronfeld ’12 — Neurocognitive and Social Cognitive Predictors of Change in Objective Versus Subjective Quality of Life Measures in Response to Rehabilitation in Schizophrenia
Anthony Jad Donato ’12 — A Pilot fMRI Study of the Effects of Cognitive Remediation on Brain Activation Associated with Working Memory in Patients with Schizophrenia
Jed Demar Rendleman ’12 — Salience as a Tool for Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia
Rachel Julie Rosengard ’14 — Comparing Two Compensatory Remediation Strategies for Improving Verbal Memory in Schizophrenia
Rachel Hunt Olfson ’14 — Methods for Remediation of Theory of Mind (ToM) Deficits in Schizophrenia
Taylor Alexandra Goodstein ’14 — Narratives of Neurology: Exploring the Broken Brain Through Interview
Simone Carlson Hyman ’15 — The Relationship Between Internalized Stigma and Functional Disability in Schizophrenia: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of India and the United States
Samuel Glenn Rispaud ’15 — The Temporal Relationship Between Change in Cognition and Change in Adaptive Functioning in Schizophrenia: Implications for Therapies Focused on Improving Cognitive Deficits
Matthew E. Siegelman ’16 — Construction of an Effort Discounting Task (EDT)
Sofia Rae Zaidman ’16 — Pilot Testing CogSMART: A Novel, Compensatory Program of Cognitive Remediation for Psychosis Developed by Elizabeth W. Twamley, PhD
Rebecca Lee Tom ’17 — “Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost”: Individual Differences in Addiction-Like Behavior Indcued by Optogenetic Stimulation of the Central Amygdala
Lisa Kremen ’17 — Comparing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation as Targets for Enhancing Cognitive Remediation Outcomes in Schizophrenia
Shyle Mehta ’17 — Comparing the Efficacy of Two Forms of Cognitive Remediation: Strategy-Based vs. Drill-and-Practice Restorative Training for Cognitive Deficits in People with Psychosis
Grace Patricia McCann ’17 — The Elite Sports Balance Protocol as an Effective Sideline Concussion Evaluation Technique
Sasha Rose Kurnetz Stahl ’17 — Stigma and Perception of Causes, Personal Responsibility, and Recovery for Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity
Sean Elizabeth Patterson ’18 — Musical Anhedonia and Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Music Reward
Julia Anne Lejeune ’18 — A Pilot Study Comparing Two Cognitive Training Approaches in Psychosis-Spectrum Disorders: Effects on Cognition, Symptoms, and Functioning
Meghan Swarup Jain (Masters) ’19 — Differences in Reading and Eye-Movement Patterns in Previously Concussed Student-Athletes
Christina Arnet Arlia (Masters) ’20 — A Pilot Study Comparing the Efficacy of Two Therapeutic Models of Cognitive Remediation on Social Cognition in Psychosis-Spectrum Disorders
Julianna Walsh Mastropierro ’20 — The Relationship Between Change in Working Memory and Change in Functional Outcome in Cognitive Remediation Treatment Trail in Schizophrenia
Melisa Olgun ’20 — Whose Schizophrenia Is It? An Intersectional Approach to Schizophrenia and Psychiatric Knowledge
Andrew Northrop ’20 — Towards a Treatment-Focused Pathophysiology: A Meta-Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Cognitive Remediation Therapy in Schizophrenia
Zoey Rose Goldberg ’22 — A Meta-Analysis of Childhood Trauma in Bipolar Illness: Influence on Symptoms, Functioning, and Cognition
Shakria Rashae Fortson ’23 — Behavioral Assessment of Cognitive-Emotional Interactions and Mood Instability: Development of Novel Task
Grace Melville ’24 — The Impact of Cognitive Training on Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia. What Treatment Elements Matter?
Angelica Crown ’25 — Social Cognition in Bipolar Disorder: A Meta-Analysis
Mia Kogan-Spivack ’26 — Expressive and Experiential Negative Symptoms as Predictors of Cognitive Remediation Outcomes in Schizophrenia
Jasmine Luu Bachelors ’25, Masters ’26 — Symptom Severity and Educational Attainment on Therapeutic Potential of Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia
Here are the student publications for which Dr. Kurtz was an advisor or co-authored.
Cognitive training for schizophrenia: Do race and ethnicity matter? — Written by Bryan Gu