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Kristin Cadenhead, M.D.

Education/Training
Institution and Location
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Degree, if applicable
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Year(s)
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Field of Study |
Rice University, Houston, TX
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BA
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1982
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Biology/Psychology |
University of Texas Medical Branch
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MD
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1986
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Medicine |
University of Texas Medical Branch
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Internship
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1987
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Psychiatry |
University of California San Diego
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Residency
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1990
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Psychiatry |
University of California San Diego
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Fellowship
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1994
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Schizophrenia Research |
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A. Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
| 1990-1994 |
Medical Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University
of California, San Diego |
| 1991-Pres |
Attending Psychiatrist, University of California, San Diego
Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry |
| 1992-1995 |
Associate Medical Director, Inpatient Psychiatry Service, University
of California, San Diego Medical Center |
| 1992-1995 |
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California,
San Diego |
| 1996-Pres |
Attending Psychiatrist, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare
System |
| 1996-Pres |
Director, Psychiatry Primary Care Clinic, Veterans Affairs
San Diego Healthcare System |
| 1995-2002 |
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California,
San Diego |
| 2001-Pres |
Associate Residency Training Coordinator |
| 2002-Pres |
Associate Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of California,
San Diego |
Awards
| 1991-1994 |
NIMH NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award |
| 1992-1994 |
NARSAD Young Investigator Award |
| 1995-2000 |
NIMH Scientist Development Award for Clinicians |
| 1999-2001 |
NARSAD Young Investigator Award |
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).
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Blinder, BJ. & Cadenhead, KS: Bulimia: A historical overview.
In, Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 13, Feinstein, SC, Esman, AH,
Looney, JT, et al. (eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
pp. 231-240, 1986. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Geyer, MA, Braff, DL: Impaired startle prepulse
inhibition and habituation in patients with schizotypal personality
disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 150: 1862-1867, 1993. |
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Cadenhead, KS & Braff, DL: Neurophysiology of schiozphrenia:
Attention, information processing, and inhibitory processes in
schizophrenia. In, Advances in the Neurobiology of Schizophrenia,
den Boer, JA, Westenberg, HGM, van Praag, HM (eds.). John Wiley & Sons,
London, pp. 329-342, 1995. |
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Clementz, BA, Reid, SA, McDowell, JE, Cadenhead, KS: Abnormality
of smooth pursuit initiation: Specificity to the schizophrenia
spectrum. Psychophysiology 32: 30-34, 1995. |
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Swerdlow, NR, Geyer, MA, Perry, W, Cadenhead, KS, Braff, DL:
Drug screening in “normal” controls. Biological Psychiatry
38:123-124, 1995. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Kumar, C, Braff, DL: Clinical and experimental
characteristics of “hypothetically psychosis prone” college
students. Journal of Psychiatry Research, 30: 331-340, 1996. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Perry, W, Braff, DL: The relationship of information
processing deficits and clinical symptoms in schizotypal personality
disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 40: 853-858, 1996. |
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Saccuzzo, DS, Cadenhead, KS, Braff, DL: Backward versus forward
visual masking deficits in schizophrenic patients: Centrally,
not peripherally mediated? American Journal of Psychiatry, 153:
1564-1570, 1996. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Butler, R, Perry, W, Sprock, J, Braff, DL: Information
processing deficits of schizophrenia patients: Relationship to
clinical symptoms, gender and medication status. Schizophrenia
Research, 28:51-62, 1997. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Serper, Y, Braff, DL: Transient versus sustained
visual channels in the visual backward masking deficits of schizophrenia
patients. Biological Psychiatry,43:132-138, 1998. |
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Cadenhead, KS and Braff, DL: Schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
In, Startle Modification: Implications for Neuroscience, Cognitive
Science, and Clinical Science, edited by Dawson, M, Schell, A,
Boehmelt, A. Cambridge Press, 1999. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Carasso, B, Swerdlow, NR, Geyer MA, Braff, DL:
Prepulse inhibition and habituation of the startle response are
stable neurobiological measures in a normal male population.
Biological Psychiatry, 45:360-364,1999. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Perry, W, Shafer, K, Braff, DL: Cognitive functions
in schizotypal personality disorder. Schizophrenia Research,
37: 123-132, 1999. |
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Swerdlow, NR, Geyer, MA, Hartman, PL, Sprock, J, Auerbach,
PP, Cadenhead, K, Perry, W, Braff, DL: Sex differences in sensorimotor
gating of the human startle reflex: All smoke? Psychopharmacology,
146: 228-232, 1999. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Light, GA, Geyer, MA, Braff, DL: Sensory gating
deficits assessed by the P50 Event-Related-Potential in subjects
with schizotypal personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry
157: 55-59, 2000. |
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Light, GA, Geyer, MA, Clementz, BA, Cadenhead, KS, and Braff,
DL: Normal P50 suppression in schizophrenia patients treated
with atypical antipsychotic medications. American Journal of
Psychiatry 157: 767-771, 2000. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Swerdlow, NR, Shafer, KM, Diaz, M, Braff, DL:
Modulation of the startle response and startle laterality in
relatives of schizophrenic patients and in subjects with schizotypal
personality disorder: evidence of inhibitory deficits. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 157: 1660-1668, 2000. |
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Brenner, CA, McDowell, JE, Cadenhead, KS, Clementz, BA: Saccadic
inhibition among schizotypal personality disorder subjects. Psychophysiology,
38: 399-403, 2001. |
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Braff, DL, Geyer MA, Light GA, Sprock, J, Perry W, Cadenhead
KS, Swerdlow NR: Impact of prepulse characteristics on the detection
of sensorimotor gating deficits in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia
Research 49:171-178, 2001. |
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Cadenhead, KS, and Braff, DL: Endophenotyping schizotypy: A
prelude to genetic studies within the schizophrenia spectrum.
Schizophrenia Research, 54:47-57, 2002. |
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Granholm, E, Cadenhead, K, Shafer, KM, Filoteo, JV: Lateralized
perceptual organization deficits on the global-local task in
schizotypal personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
111:42-52, 2002. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Light, GA, Geyer, MA, McDowell, JE, Braff, DL:
Neurobiological measures of schizotypal personality disorder:
defining an inhibitory endophenotype? American Journal of Psychiatry,
159:869-871, 2002. |
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Cadenhead, KS: Vulnerability markers in the schizophrenia spectrum:
implications for phenomenology, genetics, and the identification
of the schizophrenia prodrome. Psychiatric Clinics of North America,
25:837-853, 2002. |
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Perry, W, Minassian, A, Cadenhead, K, Sprock, J, Braff, D:
The use of the Ego Impairment Index across the schizophrenia
spectrum. J Pers Assess. Feb;80(1):50-7, 2003. |
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Miller, TJ, McGlashan, TH, Rosen, JL, Cadenhead, K, Cannon,
T, Ventura, J., McFarlane, W, Perkins, DO, Pearlson, GD, Woods,
SW: Prodromal assessment with the structured interview for prodromal
syndromes and the scale of prodromal symptoms: predictive validity,
interrater reliability, and training to reliability. Schizophrenia
Bulletin, 29(4):703-15, 2003. |
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Seeber, K and Cadenhead, KS: How does studying schizotypal
personality disorder inform us about the prodrome of schizophrenia?
Current Psychiatry Reports, 7(1):41-50, 2005. |
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Cadenhead, KS, Light, GA, Shafer, KS, Braff, DL: P50 suppression
in individuals at-risk for schizophrenia: The convergence of
clinical, familial, and vulnerability marker risk assessment.
Biological Psychiatry, 57(12): 1504-1509, 2005. |
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