Keith Nuechterlein, Ph.D.


Education/Training


Institution and Location
Degree, if applicable
Year(s)
Field of Study
University of Minnesota
B.A.
1970
Psychology
University of Minnesota
Ph.D.
1978
Clinical Psychology
University of California, Los AngelesDept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Internship 1977
Clinical Psychology


A. Positions and Employment

1978-1985 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, UCLA
1979- Director, Aftercare Research Program, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
1982- Chief (1989-present) and Co-Chief (1982-89), Cognition, Psychophysiology, and Neuropsychology Laboratory
1985-1989 Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, UCLA
1989- Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and of Psychology, UCLA
2003- Director, Center for Neurocognition and Emotion in Schizophrenia, UCLA

Honors and professional Experience
1970 Graduated summa cum laude, University of Minnesota
1977 Dissertation Research Fellowship, the Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program
1979-1983 Appointed to the Board of Consulting Editors, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1984 Distinguished Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association, Division of Clinical Psychology, Experimental Behavioral Science Section
1987 Selected one of "40 Outstanding Alumni Under 40", University of Minnesota Alumni Association
1988-1991 Appointed as an Associate Editor, Schizophrenia Bulletin
1995 Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award, New York State Psychiatric Institute
1997 Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award, California Psychological Association
1998-2005 Executive Board and President-Elect (2005), Society for Research in Psychopathology
2005- Editorial Board, Psychological Medicine


B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).
***Selected from over 190 publications

Asarnow RF, Nuechterlein KH, Fogelson D, Subotnik KL, Payne DA, Russell AT, Asamen J, Kuppinger H, Kendler KS. Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorders in the first-degree relatives of children with schizophrenia: The UCLA Family Study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2001;58:581-588.
Bartzokis G, Beckson M, Lu PH, Nuechterlein KH, Edwards N, Mintz J. Age-related changes in frontal and temporal lobe volumes in men: A magnetic resonance imaging study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2001;58:461-465.
Gitlin M, Nuechterlein KH, Subotnik KL, Ventura J, Mintz J, Fogelson DL, Bartzokis G, Aravagiri M. Clinical outcome following neuroleptic discontinuation in patients with remitted recent-onset schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 2001;158:1835-1842.
Hazlett EA, Dawson ME, Schell AM, Nuechterlein KH. Attentional stages of information processing during a continuous performance test: A startle modification analysis. Psychophysiology 2001;38:669-677.
Wiedl KH, Wienöbst J, Schöttke HH, Green MF, Nuechterlein KH. Attentional characteristics of schizophrenic patients differing in learning proficiency in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Schizophr Bull 2001;27:687-695.
Asarnow R, Nuechterlein K, Asamen J, Fogelson D, Subotnik K, Zaucha K,. Neurocognitive functioning and schizophrenia spectrum disorders can be independent expressions of familial liability for schizophrenia in community control children: The UCLA Family Study. Schizophr Res 2002:54:111-120.
Asarnow RF, Nuechterlein KH, Subotnik KL, Fogelson DL, Torquato RD, Payne DL, Asamen J, Mintz J, Guthrie D. Neurocognitive impairments in non-psychotic parents of children with schizophrenia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: The UCLA family study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2002;59:1053-1060.
Nuechterlein KH, Asarnow RF, Subotnik KL, Fogelson DL, Payne DL, Kendler KS, Neale MC, Jacobson KC, Mintz J. The structure of schizotypy: Relationships between neurocognitive and personality disorder features in relatives of schizophrenic patients in the UCLA Family Study. Schizophr Res 2002;54:121-130.
Schell AM, Dawson ME, Nuechterlein KH, Subotnik KL, Ventura J. The temporal stability of electrodermal variables over a one-year period in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and normal subjects. Psychophysiology 2002;39:124-132.
Subotnik KL, Goldstein MJ, Nuechterlein KH, Woo SM, Mintz J. Are communication deviance and expressed emotion related to family history of psychiatric disorders in schizophrenia? Schizophr Bull 2002;28:719-729.
Bartzokis G, Nuechterlein KH, Lu PH, Gitlin M, Rogers S, Mintz J. Dysregulated brain development in adult men with schizophrenia: A magnetic resonance imaging study. Biol Psychiatry 2003;53:412-421.
Green MF, Mintz J, Salveson D, Nuechterlein KH, Breitmeyer B, Light GA, Braff DL Visual masking as a probe for abnormal gamma range activity in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 2003;53:1113-1119.
Green MF, Nuechterlein KH, Breitmeyer B, Tsuang J, Mintz J. Forward and backward visual masking in schizophrenia: Influence of age. Psychological Medicine 2003;33:887-895.
Subotnik KL, Bartzokis G, Green MF, Nuechterlein KH. Neuroanatomical correlates of formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2003;8:81-88.
Niendam TA, Bearden CE, Rosso IM, Sanchez LE, Hadley T, Nuechterlein KH, Cannon TD. A prospective study of childhood neurocognitive functioning in schizophrenic patients and their siblings. Am J Psychiatry 2003;160:2060-2062.
Fogelson DL, Nuechterlein KH, Asarnow RF, Payne DL, Subotnik KL. Validity of the family history method for diagnosing schizophrenia, schizophrenia-related psychoses, and schizophrenia-spectrum personality disorders in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia probands. Schizophr Res 2004;68:309-317.
Green MF, Nuechterlein KH, Gold JM, Barch D, Cohen J, Essock S, Fenton WS, Frese F, Goldberg TE, Heaton RK, Keefe RSE, Kern RS, Kraemer H, Stover E, Weinberger DR, Zalcman S, Marder SR. Approaching a consensus cognitive battery for clinical trials in schizophrenia: The NIMH-MATRICS conference to select cognitive domains and test criteria. Biol Psychiatry 2004;56:301-307.
Kern RS, Green MF, Nuechterlein KH, Deng BH. NIMH-MATRICS survey on assessment of neurocognition in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2004; 72:11-19.
Kim J, Glahn, DC, Nuechterlein KH, Cannon TD. Maintenance and manipulation of information in schizophrenia: Further evidence for impairment in the central executive component of working memory. Schizophr Res 2004; 68:173-187.
Nuechterlein KH, Barch DM, Gold JM, Goldberg TE, Green MF, Heaton RF. Identification of separable cognitive factors in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2004; 72:29-39.
Rassovsky, Y., Green, M. F., Nuechterlein, K. H., Breitmeyer, B., & Mintz, J. (2004). Paracontrast and metacontrast in schizophrenia: Clarifying the mechanism for visual masking deficits. Schizophr Res 2004; 71:485-492.
Ventura J, Nuechterlein KH, Green MF, Horan WP, Subotnik KL, Mintz J. The timing of negative symptom exacerbations in relationship to positive symptom exacerbations in the early course of schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2004; 69:333-342.
Ventura J, Nuechterlein KH, Subotnik KL, Green MF, Gitlin MJ. Self-efficacy and neurocognition may be related to coping responses in recent-onset schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2004; 69:343-352.
Buchanan RW, Davis M, Goff D, Green MF, Keefe RSE, Leon AC, Nuechterlein KH, Laughren T, Levin R, Stover E, Fenton W, Marder SR. A summary of the FDA-NIMH-MATRICS workshop on clinical trial design for neurocognitive drugs for schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2005; 31:5-19.
Green MF, Glahn D, Engel SA, Nuechterlein KH, Sabb F, Strojwas M, Cohen MS. Regional brain activity associated with visual backward masking. J Cognitive Neuroscience 2005;17:13-23.
Horan WP, Ventura J, Nuechterlein KH, Subotnik KL, Hwang S, Mintz J. Stressful life events in recent-onset schizophrenia: Reduced frequencies and altered subjective appraisals. Schizophr Res 2005; 75:363-374.
Reise SP, Ventura J, Nuechterlein KH, Kim KH. An illustration of multilevel factor analysis. J Pers Assess 2005; 84:126-136.
Shurman B, Horan WP, Nuechterlein KH. Schizophrenia patients demonstrate a distinctive pattern of decision-making impairment on the Iowa Gambling Task. Schizophr Res 2005; 72:215-224.
Subotnik KL, Asarnow RF, Nuechterlein KH, Fogelson DL, Thorpe TI, Payne DL, Giannini CA, Kuppinger HE, Torquato RD, Mintz J, Hwang SS, Gottesman II. MMPI vulnerability indicators for schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder: UCLA family study of biological parents of offspring with childhood-onset schizophrenia or ADHD. Behav Genet 2005; 35:159-75.
Subotnik KL, Nuechterlein KH, Irzhevsky V, Kitchen CM, Woo SM, Mintz J. Is unawareness of psychotic disorder a neurocognitive or psychological defensiveness problem? Schizophr Res 2005: 147-157.
Horan, W.P., Green, M.F., Kring, A.M., & Nuechterlein, K.H. Does anhedonia in schizophrenia reflect faulty memory for subjectively experienced emotions? J Abnorm Psychol, in press.
Nuechterlein KH, Miklowitz DJ, Ventura J, Gitlin MJ, Stoddard M, Lukoff D. Classifying episodes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Criteria for relapse and remission applied to recent-onset samples. Psychiatry Res, in press.
Rassovsky Y, Green MF, Nuechterlein KH, Breitmeyer B, Mintz J. Modulation of attention during visual masking in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry, in press.
Rassovsky Y., Green MF, Nuechterlein KH, Breitmeyer BG, Mintz J. Visual processing in schizophrenia: structural equation modeling of visual masking performance. Schizophr Res, in press.
Sergi, M.J., Rassovsky, Y., Nuechterlein, K.H., Green, M.F. Social perception as a mediator of the influence of early visual processing on functional status in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry, in press.
Wiedl KH, Schöttke H, Green MF, Nuechterlein KH. Dynamic testing in schizophrenia: Does training change the construct validity of a test? Schizophr Bull, in press.
Wynn, J.K., Light, G.A., Breitmeyer, B., Nuechterlein, K.H., Green, M.F. Event-related gamma activity in schizophrenia patients during a visual backward masking task. Am J Psychiatry, in press.