Dr. Gold received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in 1985. After serving as faculty member and Clinical Director of the NIMH Neuropsychiatric Research Hospital, Dr. Gold joined the University of Maryland Medical School and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center.
Current Research Interests:
Dr. Gold’s research focuses on the neuropsychology of schizophrenia. This work has examined the development of instruments for the assessment of cognitive deficits in this population and the functional relationship between these deficits and impairment in social and occupational functioning. One ongoing NIMH-funded project examines the cognitive neuroscience of attention in schizophrenia. Dr. Gold does not directly admit students to the clinical program but does mentor research for those clinical graduate students within the Schizophrenia Research Training Program.
Recent Publications:
Dickinson, D., & Gold, J. (2008). Less unique variance than meets the eye: Overlap among traditional neuropsychological dimensions in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 34, 423-434.
Gold, J., Fuller, R., Robinson, B., Braun, E., & Luck, S. (2007). Impaired top-down control of visual search in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 94, 148-155.
Dickinson, D., Ramsey, M., & Gold, J. (2007). Overlooking the obvious: A meta-analytic comparison of digit symbol coding tasks and other cognitive measures in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 532-542.
Heerey, E., & Gold, J. (2007). Patients with schizophrenia demonstrate dissociation between affective experience and motivated behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 268-278.
Dickinson, D., Ragland, J., Calkins, M., Gold, J., & Gur, R. (2006). A comparison of cognitive structure in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls using confirmatory factor analysis. Schizophrenia Research, 85, 20-29.
Fuller, R., Luck, S., Braun, E., Robinson, B., McMahon, R., & Gold, J. (2006). Impaired control of visual attention in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 266-275.
Gold, J., Fuller, R., Robinson, B., McMahon, R., Braun, E., & Luck, S. (2006). Intact attentional control of working memory encoding in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 658-673.
Velligan, D., Kern, R., & Gold, J. (2006). Cognitive rehabilitation for schizophrenia and the putative role of motivation and expectancies. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 32, 474-485.
Saperstein, A., Fuller, R., Avila, M., Adami, H., McMahon, R., Thaker, G., et al. (2006). Spatial working memory as a cognitive endophenotype of schizophrenia: Assessing risk for pathophysiological dysfunction. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 32, 498-506.
Clinical Psychology Program • Department of Psychology • University
of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-4411 • phone: 301-405-5890 • fax:
301-314-9566 • email: jcoldren@psyc.umd.edu
