Judith Ford, Ph.D.

Dr. Ford works with event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and has been combining functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) techniques with ERP data to provide high spatial resolution information about cortical sources of the various components of the ERP. ERPs enable assessment of cognition even in the absence of overt behavior, making them an ideal tool for understanding clinical groups in whom responses are unreliable or difficult to acquire. To understand how patients with schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations, she and her team are using fMRI and ERPs to probe the brain during periods with and without hallucinations.