Hosted by Global Mental Health & Stigma Program
GMH Symposium Speaker Series #14 with William Stone, PhD
Cognitive abnormalities have long been accepted as core features of schizophrenia in all stages of illness. Despite its ubiquity, however, its roles in the development and persistence of the disorder remain unclear. This presentation by Dr. William Stone will highlight our current state of knowledge about cognition in schizophrenia at different stages of illness and present data that may help us reduce the knowledge gap between cognition as a biomarker of future clinical outcomes and cognition as an indicator of current functional capacity.
About the Speaker:
Dr. William Stone is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC). He is the Director of the Psychosis Research Program at BIDMC and MMHC, and the Director of the Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at BIDMC and MMHC. He has worked for over 25 years to identify mechanisms underlying the development of psychosis in adolescents and young adults, with a focus on cognition. Dr. Stone is a current PI or investigator on several NIMH-funded grants, has published over 215 journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited 2 books. He is a Past President of the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society and is the current Secretary of the American Psychopathological Association.