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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Excited to see everyone at SRP in a month! psychopathology.org/wp-content/u... Check out the schedule and our wonderful speakers here: srp.societyconference.com/conf/#sessio...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New paper from grad student Luzma! 🎉 Luzma has been doing really innovative work looking at how LLMs can supplement assessments of psychosis risk. Alliende et al. (2026), Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We are hiring a TT assistant prof in the clinical area- Northwestern Psychology! Please share with anyone who might be interested. psychology.northwestern.edu/people/facul...

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Job Opportunities: Department of Psychology - Northwestern University

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Check out this great interview about graduate student Jessica Fattal’s work on how motor abnormalities may relate to both general and specific mental health symptoms. So proud of you, Jessica! www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2026-ju...

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Motor Abnormalities Predict Mental Illness in Both General and Specific Symptoms

Understanding how motor abnormalities relate to psychological disorders may provide insight into mechanisms underlying mental health issues, disease progression, and potential treatments.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

DevSci Undergrad Poster Day! What a great moment to celebrate our undergrads and all of their hard work this summer!

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Updated lab photo after a brief (long) hiatus! 🧠📸

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Excited to share new work led by one of our lab coordinators, Hailey Rich, on atypical semantic priming in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis! Congrats to Hailey and the team! doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We've spent decades predicting who will "convert" to psychosis — while conversion rates keep falling and the people in our clinics keep struggling. Our new Viewpoint in JAMA Psychiatry makes the case: it's time to stop counting conversions.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on leading this project in Schizophrenia Bulletin Open! 🎉 Across 800+ young adults, the team found that greater detection of faces and speech in ambiguous stimuli was associated with psychosis risk and perceptual abnormalities. doi.org/10.1093/schi...

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Psychosis Risk Is Associated with Increased Multimodal Reports of Socially Salient Content in Degraded Stimuli

AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Humans are adaptively tuned to detect faces and speech in noisy environments. While such detection is generally adaptive

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thank you to University of Chicago for having me as the keynote speaker at their Global Child Mental Health Symposium, and to everyone who came out! crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Some of our current members and fellow alumni/collaborators at SIRS!!

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Huge congrats to postdoc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social, undergrad senior Taera, Theresa, and Amy!! 🎉 Victor has been working on examining phantom phone vibrations as an understudied, real-world marker of psychosis risk. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New paper in Schizophrenia Research with Drs. Wing-Chung Chang and Elaine Walker. We review how negative symptoms emerge and evolve across the psychosis spectrum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Negative symptoms across developmental stages in psychosis spectrum

Negative symptoms are a core feature of schizophrenia and other psychoses that contribute substantially to functional disability but benefit little fr…

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Some exciting news 🎉 The lab was ranked 2nd globally for psychosis research over the past 5 years! So proud of this incredible team and all of our collaborators, what a great year :) scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Julianna Schuch, a recent Northwestern graduate, makes a call for cultural sensitivity when evaluating nonverbal behaviors in people on the psychosis spectrum in her first lead author publication. Thank you to @daniellepratt.bsky.social for your supervision!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Reevaluating the assessment of nonverbal behavior in psychosis symptomatology: A call for cultural sensitivity

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Congrats again to @daniellepratt.bsky.social on leading an impressive meta-analysis of 115 studies, now published in @jama.com Psychiatry. Thank you to all the coauthors as well for pulling off such a major effort! 🎉 doi.org/10.1001/jama...

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Processing Speed Impairment in Schizophrenia

This meta-analysis provides an updated review of the evidence for a central processing speed impairment in people with schizophrenia.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Processing speed impairment is one of the most functionally important deficits in schizophrenia. In this meta-analysis, Danielle Pratt leads us to synthesize decades of evidence to show that processing speed deficits are large, reliable, and central to the cognitive profile. doi.org/10.1001/jama...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

ear Community Members, I am excited to announce we have launched a search to fill a new Position at the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being. Please share this posting, for a Senior Program Coordinator, with anyone you think might be interested.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So excited to share the Anthem video for Northwestern University's Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well Being!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyy...

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Northwestern's Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being Anthem Video

YouTube video by Vijay Mittal

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The lab is recruiting a postdoc. Please share with anyone who might be interested. www.adaptprogram.com/join-adapt

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Join the ADAPT Team — ADAPT

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Congratulations to post doc @victor-pokorny.bsky.social on his new commentary on Miller & Chapman (2001), accepted in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! 👏 doi.org/10.1037/abn0...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Had such a great time yesterday at the 2025 DevSci Holiday Scientific Symposium!! Thank you everyone for coming :)

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Check out our new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin showing that ethnoracial discrimination is linked to more psychotic-like experiences, partly through cannabis and other substance use. Great work Zeeshan Huque, Thomas Olino, Jason Schiffman, and Lauren Ellman!! doi.org/10.1093/schb...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Huge congratulations to Sophie, our asssessment specialist at ADAPT Lab on the publication of her new paper in Schizophrenia Research: Cognition! So proud to see you and @daniellepratt.bsky.social's research shine in this important work. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001325000599

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Huge congrats to @jessicafattal.bsky.social, 4th year grad student: “Altered top-down modulation of electrodermal responses to sudden auditory stimuli in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis.” Great work Ajay Nadig, Ivanka Ristanovic, K. Juston Osborne, Claudia M. Haase!! 👏👏

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🧠 New in Schizophrenia Research: Sensorimotor & psychomotor dysfunctions in SSD are not just med side effects but emerging as core features for early detection. @victor-pokorny.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Lab photo at SRP 🙂 Was so great to see everyone!

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We are worried about our students. There is a misapprehension that behaving "unhappy" gives an impression of worldliness or that it signals empathy to the world’s problems. What is worse- suppressing happiness changes your capacity for joy. www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

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Opinion | How Young People Learn to Be Unhappy

By focusing so heavily on stress and depression, we’ve given them the idea that misery is virtuous.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This piece includes a critical perspective we all need to be paying more attention to!

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The lab will be reviewing applications for graduate training this cycle. Please share with anyone that might be interested in applying.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Congrats to graduate student Vanessa Zarubin on her new paper published in J Psychopathol Clin Sci & co-authors! 🎉🎉 Early childhood dyadic interactions predict psychotic-like experiences at adolescence, pointing to early vulnerability markers. DOI: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

New article in American Journal of Psychiatry with Dusan Hirjak, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, and Georg Northoff on the future of sensorimotor and psychomotor dysfunction in mental disorders: emerging tools, challenges, and the road ahead. Check it out: doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20250533

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Future of Sensorimotor and Psychomotor Dysfunction in Mental Disorders: Emerging Tools, Methodological Challenges, and the Road Ahead | American Journal of Psychiatry

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wonderful work from Kate- the lab is proud of you!! Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2837717?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=081925

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

New SZ Research article: Digital phenotyping evidence for reduced positivity offset as a mechanism underlying anhedonia in people at clinical high-risk for psychosis Read more here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New article in Schizophrenia Bulletin: @ivanka13.bsky.social, @daniellepratt.bsky.social @gregstrauss and I used EMA to explore how momentary negative emotions relate to attenuated delusions in CHR Check out here: doi-org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/10.1093/schb...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Group photo taken after some undergraduates presented their summer projects/posters. Great work everyone!

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Very exciting lab update! 🎉 We’re so thrilled to officially welcome Zach Anderson as a postdoc. Zach is returning to Northwestern after earning his PhD here. His work focuses on computational models that characterize neural circuits underlying depression, psychosis, and emotion related processes.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Congratulations to coordinator Madison Stevens on her first-author publication: Subjective emotional experiences in clinical high-risk youth!! @madisonstevens @jessicafattal.bsky.social @daniellepratt.bsky.social @lillianfu @claudiahaas.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Congrats @ivanka13.bsky.social , @daniellepratt.bsky.social , @GregoryStrauss on a new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin! Temporal Relationship Between Momentary Negative Affect Intensity and Momentary Attenuated Delusions in Individuals at Clinical High-risk for Psychosis doi.org/10.1093/schb...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model - The Wall Street Journal

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Another big congrats to Juliette on her continued work in the automatic quantification of gestures! 👏👏 @juliettelozanog.bsky.social 🔗 doi-org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/10.1016/j.ja...

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Congrats to ADAPT Mentees and Student collaborators graduating today! Such a thrill to celebrate you as you move on to the next steps in your journey.

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Mittal ADAPT Lab @vijayamittal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Another exciting paper out!! Using point-light displays, depressive symptoms were shown to be linked to difficulty recognizing neutral emotions in body movement without facial cues. doi-org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/10.1016/j.ja...

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