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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.

Positions

  • Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University

 

Education

  • Ph.D., 1975, Stanford University

 

Relevant Publications

  • Ford JM, Roach BJ, Jorgensen KW, et al. Tuning in to the voices: a multisite fMRI study of auditory hallucinations. Schizophr Bull. 2009;35(1):58-66.
  • Ford JM, Krystal JH, Mathalon DH. Neural synchrony in schizophrenia: from networks to new treatments. Schizophr Bull. 2007;33(4):848-852.
  • Heinks-Maldonado T, Mathalon DH, Houde JF, Gray M, Faustman WO, Ford JM. Relationship of imprecise corollary discharge in schizophrenia to auditory hallucinations. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007;64(3):286-296.
  • Ford JM, Roach BJ, Faustman WO, Mathalon DH. Synch before you speak: auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2007;164(3):458-466.
  • Ford JM, Mathalon DH. Corollary discharge dysfunction in schizophrenia: can it explain auditory hallucinations? Int J Psychophysiol. 2005;58(2-3):179-189.

 

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