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CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Mishara, Aaron L., Ph.D., Psy.D.

Address: 929 N. Beaudry Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90012

773-750-7060 (Cell)

Education:

B.A., Vassar College (1975)

M.A., Duquesne University (Clinical Psychology, 1978)

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University (Philosophy, 1989)

Psy.D., Rutgers University (Clinical Psychology, 2004)

Certificate in Cognitive Science, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS, 2004)

Faculty Appointments:

5/2014 - Full Professor, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Downtown Los

Angeles Campus; Courses taught and other duties: Basic Interventions

Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy, Social Bases and of Behavior,

Functional Neuroanatomy, Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy, History

and Systems of Psychology, Psychopharmacology, Research Methods and

Statistics (Forensic Psychology), Clinical Practicum Maintenance, Alcohol and

Chemical Substance Abuse, Course Stream Coordinator: Existential and

Humanistic Psychotherapy Track. Dissertation and academic mentoring.

Committee work, Admissions Committee, APA CoA self-study.

9/2012 –2014 Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Sofia University, Palo

Alto CA; Courses taught: Bio-Bases of Behavior, Social Bases of Behavior,

Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior, Parts A and B;

Psychopharmacology, Law and Ethics II, Spiritually Oriented Clinical Theory

and Research (Co-instructor); Neuroscience of relationship; History and Systems

of Psychology

1/2010 – 2012 Department of Clinical Psychology, Core Faculty, The Chicago School of

Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL; Courses taught and other duties: Basic

and Advanced Psychopathology (with Service Learning Components),

Biological Bases of Behavior, Clinical Neuroscience, Human Neuropsychology,

Basic Interventions Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy, Social Bases and

of Behavior (Social Neuroscience), Neurobiology and Spirituality, Research

Clerkship Mentor, Child and Adolescent Track, Dissertation Advisor, Committee

Work (Faculty Search Committee, Committee for Multi-Campus Faculty

Collaboration, Strategic Plan Implementation Committee), Course Stream

Coordinator Neuropsychology/Neuroscience Concentration, Designed new

graduate M.S. program in applied neuroscience, including 36 credit course

curriculum schedule, syllabi, Catalogue Course Descriptions, and Curriculum

Alignment Map in compliance with the NCSPP Competency Model of

Education and Training (received WASC Accreditation, 2012)

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1996-1997 Adjunct professor, Department of Philosophy, John Carroll University,

Cleveland, Ohio

1994 – 1997 Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University,

Cleveland, Ohio; (taught courses in medical ethics, philosophic psychology,

supervised and conducted neuropsychological research with severely mentally ill

forensic population)

1994 – 1997 Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University

1991 – 1994 Julius-Maximilians Universitaet Würzburg, Medical School Institute for

Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology, and and Department of Philosophy,

Würzburg, Germany (taught : Medical Psychology to medical students,

philosophic psychology to graduate students (in German))

1991 – 1994 Contractor for U.S. Military: Conducted Training in Stress Management, Anger

Management, Change Management for US Military and Families stationed

overseas in Germany

1991 – 1994 University of Maryland and City Colleges of Chicago Overseas Programs :

Taught U.S. Military undergraduate courses in psychology : Introduction to

Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Psychology of Personality, Social

Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Lifespan, Dreaming and Hypnosis

Clinical and Research Experience:

Summer, 2015 Guest researcher, Institute of Medical Psychology and Human

Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Hosted byProf.

Ernst Pöppel)

Summer, 2015 Guest researcher, Department of Psychiatry, Charité University Hospital, a

joint institution of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität

zu Berlin (Hosted by Professors Andreas Heinz (Chair), Philipp Sterzer)

2012 – 2014 Guest Scholar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Summer, 2011 Guest Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, Hannover Medical School,

Germany

Summer, 2010 Guest Researcher, Department of Psychiatry, Human Brain Mapping

Research Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

2008 - 2009 Yale University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship, Neuroimaging

Sciences Training Program, Departments of Psychiatry and Diagnostic

Radiology, NIMH training grant;

2006 - 2008 IC Postdoctoral Research fellowship, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit,

Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine

2004 - 2006 Yale University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIMH training

grant, Research training in Functional Disability Interventions

2002 – 2003 Clinical internship, Neuropsychology, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch,

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NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD

2001 – 2002 Contractor, Neuropsychological Assessment and Research, Clinical Brain

Disorders Branch, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD

1999 – 2001 Externship, Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University, Psychological Clinic of the

Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Piscataway, NJ

1999 – 2001 Screening and disposition for Emergency Psychiatry, Acute Service Division/

Acute Psychiatric Services, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,

Piscataway, and Newark, NJ

1998 – 2000 Externship, Clinical Psychology, Beth Israel Medical Center Brief

Psychotherapy Research Group, New York, NY.

1998 – 1999 Externship, Adult and geriatric inpatient unit, Beth Israel Medical Center Brief

Psychotherapy Research Group, New York, NY.

1997 – 1998 Externship, Clinical Psychology, PACT Substance Abuse Psychotherapy

Program at St. Peter’s Medical Center, New Brunswick, NJ.

1995 – 1997 Counselling Psychologist, Lorain Correctional Facility, Ohio Department of

Corrections, Lorain, OH

1994 – 1995 Clozapine Coordinator and Counselling Psychologist, Ohio Department of

Mental Health, Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospital, OH

1988 – 1989 Counselling Psychologist, State Diagnostic and Placement Center, District of

Columbia Public Schools, Cedar Knoll School, Oak Hill, MD

Professional Honors and Grants:

Fellow, the Karl Jaspers House and Library, Oldenburg, Germany; August,

2015

National Center for International Studies (NCIS)

International Faculty Grant (TCS) for research collaboration with colleagues

in Prague, Munich and Berlin, Germany, Summer, 2015;

National Center for International Studies (NCIS)

International Exchange Visitor Grant (TCS), to host Philipp Sterzer, MD,

PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Computational Neuroscience at Charité

Universitätsmedizin Berlin at the Chicago School of Professional

Psychology, Los Angeles Campus, May, 2015

Board Member, Stress Research Section, World Psychiatric Association,

2015 –

Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD) Young Investigator

Award to Increase the Understanding, Research and Treatment of Severe

Psychiatric Disorders, 2011 -

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2010-2011 Learn and Serve,

Service Learning Faculty Grant Recipient for Innovative Implementation of

Service Learning in the Classroom

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, “Maestro” award for

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Recognition of Commitment to Community Engaged Scholarship, 2010

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Multi-Campus Faculty

Collaboration Grant, 2012

Course Stream Coordinator, Neuropsychology/Neuroscience Concentration,

Chicago School of Professional psychology, Fall/2011 -

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Lead in Developing New

Interdisciplinary Clinical Neuropsychology/Neuroscience Graduate Program,

2011

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Service Recognition Award, for

outstanding service, performance, achievement, and dedication during 1rst

year of employment, 2010-2011

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Complex International Faculty

Grant, 2011, for Multi-Center, International Initiative for Narrative Text

Bank: Patient Voices, What it is Like to have a Mental Disorder and how I

Integrate This into my Life-Story

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Complex International Faculty

Grant, 2010 for Research with Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK:

Learning and consolidation/reconsolidation processes underlying the

formation of delusions in acute psychosis

Yale University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship, Neuroimaging

Sciences Training Program, Departments of Psychiatry and Diagnostic

Radiology, 2008 - 2009

IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit,

Department of Psychiatry,Yale University School of Medicine, 2006-2008

Continuing Yale University Whitney Humanities Center Grant for

Interdisciplinary Working Group in Cognitive Neuroscience, Literary Theory

and Visual Arts, 2007- present

Postdoctoral fellowship, NIMH Training Grant, Research training in

Functional Disability Interventions, Yale University School of Medicine,

2004 – 2006

Certificate in Cognitive Science, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, 2004

Rutgers University Fellowship for Study of Professional Psychology, 2001-

2002

Highest Committee Evaluation, Dissertation in Philosophy, The Pennsylvania

State University, 1989

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Fulbright-Hays Full Research Grant in Psychology and Phenomenological

Psychiatry, Federal Republic of Germany, 1984-1985

One Year Renewal of Fulbright-Hays Full Research Grant, 1985-1986

Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in Psychology and Philosophy, The

Pennsylvania State University, 1981-1982

Representative Publications:

Books:

Mishara, AL, Corlett, P., Fletcher, P., Kranjec, A., Schwartz, M.A. (Eds) Phenomenological

Neuropsychiatry, How Patient Experience Bridges Clinic with Clinical Neuroscience

(2016). New York, Springer.

Editor, Studies in Embodied, Social and Clinical Neuroscience. New York,

Springer (pending)

Peer Reviewed Articles and Reviews Forthcoming or in Press (All Invited Contributions

are Peer Reviewed)

Sterzer P, Voss M, Heinz A, Mishara AL* (submitted): Thought Insertion as Self

Disturbance (Ichstörung): A Combined Bayesian Predictive Coding, Phenomenological

approach. To appear in: Frontiers of Molecular Neuroscience (invited contribution) (impact

factor 4.1) *Senior author

Kaminsky J, Sterzer P, Mishara AL* (submitted). Seeing rain: Combining

phenomenological and Bayesian Predictive Coding approaches to visual hallucinations in

schizophrenia. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience (invited contribution) (impact factor 4.1)

*Senior and corresponding author

Christodoulou GN, Van Staden, W, Jousset D, Schwartz MA, Mishara, AL. (In press).

Ethics in person centered medicine. In J. Mezzich, M. Botbol, G. Christodoulou, R.

Cloninger, and I. Salloum (Editors), Person Centered Psychiatry, Heidelberg: Springer

Verlag, in press. (invited book chapter)

Gross E, Mishara AL. Zen, Self, Non-Self and Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological

Analysis of the Self-Disorders in Psychosis. In Brian W. Becker, John Manoussakis

(Editors), Unconscious Incarnations: Conversations Between Psychoanalysis and

Continental Thought. Fordham University Press (invited book chapter)

Mishara, A.L., Fusar-Poli, P. Brief Psychotic Episodes in High Risk Youth: What is the

relation to Schizophrenia? (in preparation)

Heinz A., Voss M., Lawrie S., Mishara A., Bauer M., Gallinet J., Juckel G., Lang U., Rapp

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M., Falkai P, Strik W., Krystal J., Abi-Dargham A, Galderisi S. Goodbye to First Rank

Symptoms? European Psychiatry (under review) (impact factor: 3.44)

Mishara, A.L. (forthcoming). How fictional literature reveals cognitive processes of the

social brain. Journal of Mind and Behavior (invited contribution)

Mishara, A.L. The phenomenological method in the clinic and in empirical research. To

appear in: Stanghellni, G., Broome, M. Fernandez, A., Fusar-Poli, P. et al. Oxford

Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press

(forthcoming) (book chapter)

Mishara, A.L. Phenomenal consciousness and its disorders (hallucinations). To appear in:

Stanghellni, G., Broome, M. Fernandez, A., Fusar-Poli, P. et al. Oxford Handbook of

Phenomenological Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming) (book

chapter)

Elvevåg, B., Montemayer, C., Mishara, A.L. Time perception and psychopathology. In

Mishara, AL, Corlett, P., Fletcher, P., Kranjec, A., Schwartz, M.A. (Eds) Phenomenological

Neuropsychiatry, How Patient Experience Bridges Clinic with Clinical Neuroscience (to

appear in 2015). New York, Springer.

Mishara, AL, Corlett, P., Fletcher, P., Kranjec, A., Schwartz, M.A. Editor’s introduction.

In Mishara, AL, Corlett, P., Fletcher, P., Kranjec, A., Schwartz, M.A. (Eds)

Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry, How Patient Experience Bridges Clinic with

Clinical Neuroscience (to appear in 2015). New York, Springer

Sterzer, P., Mishara, A.L. Phenomenological and Bayesian approaches to perceptual

disturbances in schizophrenia. In Mishara, AL, Corlett, P., Fletcher, P., Kranjec, A.,

Schwartz, M.A. (Eds) Phenomenological Neuropsychiatry, How Patient Experience

Bridges Clinic with Clinical Neuroscience (to appear in 2015). New York, Springer.

Mishara, AL. (in press). Should trauma be remembered? Re-examining the relationship of self,

narrative and memory. Activitas Nervosa Superior (ANS): The Journal for Neurocognitive

Research.

Bob P., Pec O., Mishara, A.L., Touskova T., Lysaker P.H. (in revision) Conscious brain,

metacognition and schizophrenia. International Journal of Psychophysiology

Mishara AL, Schwartz MA, Lysaker PH, Hartelius, G. The clinical neuroscience of self-

disturbance in schizophrenia: What can phenomenology offer? Part 1: Methodological

issues and concerns (in revision)

Mishara AL, Schwartz MA, Lysaker PH, Hartelius, G. The clinical neuroscience of self-

disturbance in schizophrenia: What can phenomenology offer? Part 2: History and Proposing

Alternatives (in revision)

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Published Peer Reviewed Articles and Reviews (All Invited Contributions are Peer

Reviewed)

Fusar-Poli P, Cappucciati M, Bonoldi I, Christi Hui LM, Rutigliano G, Stahl DR, Borgwardt

S, Mishara AL, Lawrie SM, Carpenter WT, McGuire PK. (2016) Prognosis of brief

psychotic episodes, A meta-analysis. JAMA psychiatry (Impact factor: 14.48)

doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.2313

Stevenson J, Defeo J, Mishara A. (2016) Neurocapacity, critical thinking, and everyday

human diversity challenges in America. BEFOREWARDS: The Challenge for African

Americans in America. Inaugural issue.

Mishara, AL*, Bonoldi, I*, Allen P., Rutigliano G., Perez J., McGuire PK, Fusar-Poli. P.

Neurobiological Models of Self Disorders in Early Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin (* first

authors) (2015) (invited contribution) (Impact factor: 8.486) doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbv123

Mishara, AL., Sterzer, P. (2015) Phenomenology is Bayesian in its application to delusions.

World Psychiatry, invited commentary (June, 2015, 14(2) 185-6) (Impact factor: 14.225)

(translated into 6 languages) DOI: 10.1002/wps.20213

Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M.A. (2015). Delusional Psychosis, Consciousness and the Self-

Disorders (Ichstörungen): Does Neuroscience Need Existentialism to Study the Self? In: D.

Stoyanov (ed). Towards a New Philosophy of Mental Health: Perspectives from Neuroscience

and Humanities. Newcastle on Thyme: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (invited book chapter)

Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M. (2015) Perception, Memory, Context: How delusions form and

persist. (Abstract) Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41, 113.

Mishara AL, Lysaker PH, Schwartz MA.(2014) Self-disturbances in schizophrenia: History,

phenomenology and relevant findings from research on metacognition. Clinical Concept

Translation-Feature. Schizophrenia Bulletin 40, 5–12, 2014 doi:10.1093/schbul/sbt169

(invited contribution) (Impact factor: 8.486)

Mishara, A.L., Fusar-Poli, P. (2013) The phenomenology and neurobiology of delusions:

Jaspers, Truman signs, Aberrant Salience. Schizophrenia Bulletin 39, 278-86.

doi:10.1093/schbul/sbs155 (invited contribution) (Impact factor: 8.486) (Cited 31 times in

Google scholar)

Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M.A. (2013) Jaspers’ critique of essentialist theories of

schizophrenia and the phenomenological response. Psychopathology 46(5), DOI:

10.1159/000353355 (invited contribution)

Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M.A. (2013) What does phenomenology contribute to the debate

about DSM 5? In Paris J, Phillips J (eds). Conceptual and pragmatic issues in DSM-5.

Springer. (Book chapter)

Mishara, A.L. (2013) Delusions of reference and social cognition in schizophrenia.

(Abstract) Schizophrenia Bulletin.

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Mishara, A.L. (2012). Translation with Commentary, Klaus Conrad’s “Beginning

Schizophrenia,” In Broome MR, Harland R, Owen GS, Stringaris, A (eds). The Maudsley

Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012,

pp. 176-193.

Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M. (2012). The DSMs: Wedge between clinician and clinical

researcher? In: The Six Most Essential Questions In Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Pluralogue:

James Phillips, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D. With commentaries by Michael Cerullo, John

Chardavoyne, Michael First, Nassir Ghaemi, Gary Greenberg, Andrew Hinderleiter, Warren

Kinghorn, Steven Labello, Elliott Martin, Aaron Mishara, Joel Paris, Joseph Pierre, Ronald

Pies, Harold Pincus, Douglas Porter, Claire Pouncey, Michael Schwartz, Thomas Szasz,

Jerome Wakefield, Scott Waterman, Owen Whooley, Peter Zachar. Philosophy, Ethics, and

Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) PubMed Central Open Access Journal, ://www.peh-

med.com/content/7/1/9

Schwartz, M., Mishara, A.L., Wiggins, O. (2012) The biopsychosocial model is not a “straw

man”: How Jaspers’ phenomenology opens the way to a paradigm shift in psychiatry.

Existenz, An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts, 6/1

http://www.bu.edu/paideia/existenz/index.html

Mishara, A.L. (2012) The Literary Neuroscience of Kafka’s Hypnagogic Labyrinth: How

Literature informs the Neuroscientific Study of Self and its Disorders. Jaen-Portillo, I.,

Simon, J. (eds). The Cognition of Literature. (Book Chapter) Austin: Univeristy of Texas

Press. http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/jaecog.html

Mishara, A.L., Cohen, S., Clews, K., Smith, K., Bonnemann, C. (2012). PTSD Flashbacks

and Memories for Psychosis: Disruption of “user’s illusion” in Episodic Memory?

(Abstract) Biological Psychiatry 71, 83S.

Mishara A.L., Schwartz, M. (2011). Altered states of consciousness as paradoxically

healing: An embodied social neuroscience perspective. In: Cardeña E., Winkelman M.

(Eds). Altering Conciousness: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. New York: Plenum Press,

Vol II, pp. 327-353.

Mishara A.L. (2011). The ‘Unconscious’ in Paranoid Delusional Psychosis?

Phenomenology, Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis. In: Founding Psychoanalysis

Phenomenologically. Edited by Lohmar D, Brudzinska J. New York: Springer, pp. 212-249.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/l7g167wm7n4n4356/

Larson, P.C., Mishara, A. L. & DuBose, T. (2011). Religious Differences (On Religion and

neuroscience). APA Monitor on Psychology, 42(3), p 4, 8.

Mishara, A.L. (2011). Applied Neuroscience: how can neuroscience inform best teaching

practices for training tomorrow's professionals? In: Seeds for Innovation, Learning Methods

of Tomorrow http://www.seedsforinnovation.org/?page_id=493

Mishara, A.L., Thorrud, K., Bonnemann, C. (2011). Quantifying the experience of delusions

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of reference in beginning schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 69 9S, 235 (Abstract).

Mishara, A.L., Thorrud, K., Bonnemann, C. (2011). Phenomenology of self in delusions of

reference in beginning schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 37 S1, 9 (Abstract).

Mishara, A.L. (2010). Klaus Conrad (1905-1961): Delusional mood, psychosis and beginning

schizophrenia. Clinical Concept Translation-Feature. Schizophrenia Bulletin 36, 9-13.

(Impact factor: 8.486) (Cited 41 times in Google scholar)

Mishara, A.L. Autoscopy: Disrupted self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous

conscious states. In: Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. S. Gallagher and

D. Schmicking (eds), Berlin: Springer; 2010, pp. 591-634.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q34127121705712x/

Mishara, A.L. (2010). Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain: Hypnagogic vs. hyper-

reflexive models of disruption of self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous conscious

states. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) 5, 13; PubMed Central

Open Access Journal http://www.peh-med.com/content/5/1/13 Rated as highly accessed by

PubMed Central BMC (Downloaded over 26,000 times)

Mishara, A.L. (2010) Phenomenology of self in delusions of reference. Biological

Psychiatry 67 1S, 151-152 (Abstract).

Schlimme JE, Bonnemann C, Mishara AL (2010) No departure to "Pandora"? Using critical

phenomenology to differentiate "naive" from "reflective" experience in psychiatry and

psychosomatic medicine. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) Oct

31;5(1):15; PubMed Central Open Access Journal

Bob P, Susta M, Gregusova A, Jesova D., Raboch J, Mishara (2010) Traumatic Stress,

dissociation, and limbic irritability in patients with unipolar depression being treated with

SSRRIs. Psychology Reports 107, 685-696.

Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M. (2010) A series of 3 commentaries and responses to Allen

Frances, Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force, “Phenomenologic Contribution to Debate about

our Ability to Detect Prodromal Schizophrenia,” “Who’s on First? Mental Disorders by Any

Other Name?,” and “Phenomenology and Operationalism: Not Opposites but Mutually in

Need of One Another” Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Bulletin, Vol 17, 1,2 http://alien.dowling.edu/~cperring/aapp/bulletin.htm

Mishara, A.L., Corlett, P. (2009). Are delusions biologically adaptive? Salvaging the

doxastic shear pin. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, 530-1. (impact factor: 20.771)

(Cited 19 times in Google scholar)

Mishara, A.L., Bell, M.D., Fiszdon, J.M., Bryson, G.J., Nicholls, S.S., Wexler, B.E. (under

review) Patients with schizophrenia exhibit compensatory rather than restorative brain

responses following cognitive remediation.

Mishara, A.L., Greig, T.C., Nicholls, S.S., Bell, M.D. (under review) Reexamining theory

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of mind impairment and negative symptoms in schizophrenia: A role for attentional

dysfunction?

Mishara, A.L., Morgan III CA, Coric, V. (under review) Detecting deception: Why is it so

hard and what are the best methods? Part I: Theoretical models of deception and measures of

its verbal content.

Mishara, A.L., Morgan III CA, Coric, V. (under review) Detecting deception: Why is it so

hard and what are the best methods? Part II: Why deception’s central mechanisms still elude

neuroimaging technologies which nevertheless remain a concern for neuroethicists.

Mishara, A.L. (2009). Human bodily ambivalence: Precondition for Social Cognition and its

Disruption in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 16, 133-

137.

Mishara, A.L. (2008) Patients with schizophrenia exhibit compensatory rather than

restorative brain responses following cognitive remediation. Biological Psychiatry 63, S1,

380 (Abstract).

Mishara, A.L. (2007). Missing links in phenomenological clinical neuroscience? Why we

are still not there yet. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 20 (6), 559-569. (Cited 37 times in

Google scholar)

Uhlhaas, P.J., Mishara, A.L. (2007). Perceptual anomalies in schizophrenia: Integrating

phenomenology and cognitive neuroscience. Schizophrenia Bulletin 33, 142-156. (Cited

161 times in Google scholar)

Mishara, A.L. (2007). Is minimal self preserved in schizophrenia? A subcomponents view.

Consciousness and Cognition 16, 715-721.

Hoffman, R., Varanko, M., Gilmore, J., Mishara, A.L. (2007) Experiential features

used by patients with schizophrenia to differentiate ‘voices’ from ordinary verbal thought.

Psychological Medicine 38, 1167-1176. (Cited 40 times in Google scholar)

Bell, M.D., Mishara, A.L. (2006) Does negative symptom change relate to neurocognitive

change? Implications for targeted treatments. Schizophrenia Research 81, 17-27 (Cited 67

times in Google scholar)

Mishara, A.L. (2006) Persistence of Abnormal Default Mode Network Activity in Patients

with schizophrenia: A longitudinal fMRI study of Working Memory. Schizophrenia Bulletin

33, 380 (Abstract).

Mishara, A.L., Bell, MD., Fiszdon, J., Bryson, G, Nicholls, S., Wexler, B.E. (2006)

Cognitive remediation improves but does not normalize brain function in schizophrenia:

fMRI of a novel working memory task pre- and post-treatment. Biological Psychiatry

Suppl. (Abstract)

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Mishara, A.L., Gallistel, C.R. (2005). Are deficits in time perception in patients with

schizophrenia attributable to dysfunctional memory or an abnormal clock module?

Biological Psychiatry 57 Suppl, 207 (Abstract)

Mishara, A.L. (2005). Body Self and its Narrative Representation in Schizophrenia: Does

the Body Schema Concept Help Establish a Core Deficit? In H. De Preester and V.

Knockaert (eds). Body Image and Body Schema. (Book Chapter) Amsterdam: John

Benjamins, pp. 127-152.

Mishara A.L., Goldberg TE (2004). A meta-analysis and critical review of conventional

neuroleptic treatment and on cognition in schizophrenia: Opening a closed book. Biological

Psychiatry 55, 1013-1022. (Cited 268 times in Google scholar) (Impact factor: 9.773)

Weickert T., Goldberg T.E., Mishara A.L., Apud J.A., Egan M.F., Weinberger D.R. (2004).

COMT Val108/158 Met genotype predicts working memory response to antipsychotic

medications. Biological Psychiatry 56, 677-682 (Cited 128 times in Google scholar) (Impact

factor: 9.773)

Mishara, A.L. (2004). The disconnection of internal and external in the conscious

experience of schizophrenia, phenomenological, literary and neuroanatomical archaeologies

of self. Philosophica 73. Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap (Belgium)

Burgmeier, R., Denzinger, R., Körner, M., Mishara, A., Tschuschke, V.,

Vauth, R., & Vauth, R. (2004). Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (Klinische

Ratingskalen für Abwehrmechanismen). Klinische Interviews und

Ratingskalen, 125.

Mishara AL (2002). The subjective experience of early schizophrenia: a review of

psychopathological approaches. Acta Psychiatrica Scandanavica 106, 30 (Abstract)

Blankenburg W, Mishara AL. First Steps Toward a Psychopathology of "Common Sense".

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 2001;8(4):303-315. (Cited 85 times in Google

scholar)

Mishara, A. L. (2001). On Wolfgang Blankenburg, common sense, and schizophrenia.

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 8(4), 317-322.

Naudin J, Azorin J-M, Mishara AL, Wiggins OP, Schwartz, M.A. (2000). Schizophrenia and

common sense: Study of 3 single cases. Psychopathology 33, 275-282.

Naudin J, Banovic I, Schwartz MA, Wiggins OP, Mishara A, Stanghellini G, Azorin JM

(2000). Defining the acoustico-verbal hallucination as a self-awareness disorder. L'Évolution

Psychiatrique 65, 311-324.

Naudin J, Gros-Azorin C, Mishara A, Wiggins O P, Schwartz M A, Azorin J-M(1999). The

use of reduction as a method of investigation in psychiatry. Journal of Consciousness

Studies 6, 155-171.

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Mishara AL, Parnas J, Naudin J (1998): Forging the links between phenomenology,

cognitive neuroscience and psychopathology: The emergence of a new discipline. Current

Opinion in Psychiatry 11, 567-573.

Naudin J, Maurel-Raymondet M, Wiggins O, Mishara A, Schwartz M A, Azorin J-M (1998)

Jaspers in contemporary psychiatry: A review of the international literature. [French]. Annales

Medico-Psychologiques 156, 225-235.

Mishara A, Schwartz M (1997): Psychopathology in the Light of Emergent Trends in the

Philosophy of Consciousness, Neuropsychiatry and Phenomenology. Current Opinion in

Psychiatry 10, 383-389. (Translated into Russian and appearing in the Russian Journal, Logos,

http://www.psyobsor.org/lists/n2.htm)

Schwartz M, Mishara A (1997): Editorial Comment: History and Philosophy Section. Current

Opinion in Psychiatry 10, 381-2.

Mishara AL (1997) Binswanger’s psychiatry. In L Embree et al (editors), Encyclopedia of

Phenomenology. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 62-66.

Mishara AL (1996): Commentary on "Wilhelm Griesinger: Psychiatry between Philosophy and

Practice," Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 3, 165-167.

Mishara AL, Orr B, Buckley P. (1995): Staff perceptions of clozapine and their role in

treatment. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 33, 44-7.

Mishara AL (1995): Narrative and psychotherapy: The phenomenology of healing.

American Journal of Psychotherapy 49:180-195 (Cited 57 times in Google scholar)

Mishara AL, Schwartz MA (1995): Conceptual analyses of psychiatric languages:

phenomenology, psychopathology and classification. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 8:312-316.

Schwartz MA, Mishara AL (1995): Editorial Comment: History and Philosophy Section.

Current Opinion in Psychiatry 8, 309-311.

Mishara AL (1994): A Phenomenological Critique of Commonsensical Assumptions of DSM-

III-R: The Avoidance of the Patient's Subjectivity. [Book Chapter] In J. Sadler, M. Schwartz

and O. Wiggins (Editors) preface by A. Frances Jr. Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric

Diagnostic Classification, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Series in psychiatry and neuroscience,

129-147.

Mishara AL (1993): Die Phànomenologischen Grundlagen der psychoanalytischen Theorie: Das

Problem der Subjektivitaet in der Psychoanalyse und wissenschaftliche Psychologie. Analecta

Husserliana 39, 413-438.

Mishara AL (1990): Husserl and Freud: Time, memory and the unconscious. Husserl

Studies 7, pp. 29-58. (Translation published in Russian)

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Mishara AL (1990): The Problem of the Unconscious in the Later Thought of L.

Binswanger: a Phenomenological Approach to Delusion in Perception and Communication.

Analecta Husserliana 31, pp. 247-278.

Mishara, AL (1986). L’Inconscient chez L. Binswanger. In: P. Fedida (ed.)

Phénoménologie, Psychiatrie, Psychanalyse (book chapter). Paris, Echos-Centurion.

Conference and Other Presentations (selection):

- Mishara, A.L. Invited panel on the film “Fruitvale Station” (police brutality and African

American Youth). Black Student Union, the Chicago School of Professional Psychology,

February 5, 2016.

- Mishara, A.L. Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Self-Disorders in Schizophrenia,

Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine,

Harbor-UCLA-Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 1, 2015

- Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M.A. Phenomenology of the Embodied Experience of

self/Other: Neuroscience, Literature and Neuropsychiatric Disorders as Sources of Data.

Psychology and the Other Conference. Sponsored by Harvard and Lesley Universities,

Boston College, Harvard Square, MA, October 8-11, 2015

- Mishara, A.L. Workshop Chair: “Self-disorders in schizophrenia: Predictive Coding,

Disruption of Context and Metacognition” (other participants: Paul Lysaker, Katherine

Thakkar, Sohee Park, Michael A. Schwartz). 15th International Congress on

Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR), 28 March-01 April 2015 at The Broadmoor in

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

- Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M. “Perception, Memory, Context: How delusions form and

persist.” 15th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR), 28 March-01

April 2015 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

- Mishara, A.L. “Karl Jaspers and the Early Heidelberg School: Self-disturbances (Ich-

Storungen) in Schizophrenia” The American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific

Division Meeting, April 1-4, 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

- Mishara, A.L. Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Delusions. 13th Charité Conference

on Psychiatric Research: Emotional Neuroscience 29th-30th August 2014, Charite -

Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (invited keynote)

http://www.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc15/psy-

ccm/Konferenz_Emotional_Neuroscience/Flyer-ENS-2014_01.pdf

- Mishara, A.L. Phenomenology of Self-disorders: Clinical Expertise, Diagnosis and

Neurobiology. 16th Annual International Conference for Philosophy, Psychiatry and

Psychology (INPP): Neuroscience, Logics, Mental Development, Varna, Bulgaria, June

26-29, 2014 (invited keynote, did not attend due to health reasons).

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- Mishara, A.L. The Role of Memory in Delusions. Society for Biological Psychiatry.

New York, NY. May, 2014 (poster)

- Mishara, A.L. Self-disturbances In Schizophrenia: Models of Hippocampal-dopamine

Interactions And Their Phenomenological Correlates. Society for Biological Psychiatry.

New York, NY. May, 2014 (poster)

- Mishara, A.L. Self-reference and social cognition in schizophrenia. Society for

Biological Psychiatry. San Francisco, CA, May, 2013 (poster)

- Mishara, A.L. Director of Workshop: “Centenary of Karl Jaspers’ ‘General

Psychopathology’ (1913): Why Jaspers’ work is crucial to current debates about the

diagnostic classification and neurobiology of schizophrenia” International Congress on

Schizophrenia Research, Orlando, FL, April, 2013

- Mishara, A.L. “Delusions of reference and social cognition in schizophrenia.”

International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Orlando, FL, April, 2013

- Mishara, A.L. Panelist, Continuing Education Course, Annual Conference, Division 32

Humanistic Psychology, American Psychological Association Meeting,

“Phenomenology, Depth Psychology and DSM 5” Santa Barbara, CA, February 28-

March 3, 2013.

- Mishara, AL, Clews, K, Bonnemann, C “Episodic memory and experience of self in

PTSD and Schizophrenia: Common neurobiological mechanisms?” Slide Presentation in

the Nano Symposium: Human Long-Term Memory, Medial Temporal Lobe at the

Society for Neuroscience Conference (October, 2012, New Orleans). (clinical doctoral

student as co-author)

- Mishara, AL (Panel Chair) Self, Depths and Spirituality: Phenomenology of Psychosis

and Healing at the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to

Psychosis Conference (ISPS, October 2012, Chicago, IL), mentored the following 3

clinical doctoral psychology student presentations:

- Kolano, M, Mishara, A.L. Spirituality, Psychosis and Healing: A Case report of Living

on the Edge

- Clews, K, Mishara, A.L. Distinguishing Spiritual Emergency from Psychosis in Early

Schizophrenia: How Phoenix Arises from the Ashes

- Reynolds, N., Mishara, A.L. Does Depersonalization have the same phenomenology,

unconscious depth processes and neural mechanisms in psychotic and non-psychotic

disorders: The case of Delusional Misidentification Syndromes?

- Mishara AL, Parkhomenko DV, Schwartz MA. Neurophenomenology: Current Debates,

Future Prospects. Moscow International Congress Dedicated to 110th Anniversary of AR

Luria’s Birth. Abstracts. Moscow, Russia November, 2012. (clinical doctoral student as

co-author)

- Mishara, A.L. Kafka’s Doubles: How Literature informs the Neuroscientific Study of

Self. Chicago School Center for Academic Excellence, Storytelling Series. July, 2012

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- Mishara, A.L., Cohen, S., Clews, K., Smith, K., Bonnemann, C. PTSD Flashbacks and

Memories for Psychosis: Disruption of “user’s illusion” in Episodic Memory? Society of

Biological Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA May 3-5, 2012 (3 clinical doctoral students as

co-authors)

- Aram, E, Mishara, A.L. ACT and Existential Approaches to Self. Society for the

Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI). Evanston, IL, May 17-20, 2012 (First

year clinical doctoral student mentored slide presentation)

- Clews, K., Cohen, S., Bueltel, C., Shipley, S., Mishara, A.L. How the arts model

empathy for professional students in training. Society for the Exploration of

Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI). Evanston, IL, May 17-20, 2012 (4 clinical second

year students’ mentored poster presentation)

- Mishara, A.L. Challenges in the applications of qualitative research to psychopathology

and neuroscience (in Panel with L. Bach, D. Blau and L. Brown) Eighth International

Conference on Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, May,

2012

- Mishara, A.L. (Panel Chair) Phenomenology of Self and Other in Clinical Treatment

and Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Several first and second year doctoral presenting

mentored slide presentations, Division 32 Humanistic Psychology, American

Psychological Association Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April, 2012:

- Clews, K., Cohen, S., Bueltel, C., Shipley, S., Mishara, A.L. How do the arts model

empathy in clinical interactions?

- Reynold, N., Greyson-Bost, K., Mishara, A.L. Depersonalization in Mental Disorders

and Person-Misidentification Syndromes

- Aram, E., Mishara, A.L. The Existential Phenomenological Foundations of ACT

- Mishara, A.L. Panelist, Continuing Education Course, 5th Annual Conference, Division

32 Humanistic Psychology, American Psychological Association Meeting, “Humanistic

Inroads in Neuropsychology through Assessment, Diagnosis, Research” Pittsburgh, PA,

March 29-April 1, 2012.

- Mishara, A.L. Shakespeare on Hallucinations and the Brain: Hamlet and Macbeth

Revisited. Academic Center for Excellence, The Chicago School of Professional

Psychology, March, 2012

- Clews, K., Cohen, S., Bueltel, C., Shipley, S., Mishara, A.L. How do the arts model

empathy in clinical interactions? Cultural Impact Conference, Chicago, IL, January 27,

2012 (4 second year students’ mentored poster presentation)

- Mishara, A.L. “How Literature Informs the Neuroscientific Study of Self and its

Disorders,” Panel on States of Consciousness in Literature, 127th Annual Convention,

Modern Language Association, Seattle, Washington, January 5-8, 2012

- Mishara, A.L., Cohen, S., Clews, K., Smith, K., Bonnemann, C. Neurobiology of PTSD

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Flashbacks: Disruption of “user’s illusion”? (Slide Presentation) Nanosymposium,

“Memory: Pharmacology and Disease,” presented at the Society for Neuroscience,

Washington, DC, November, 2011 (3 clinical doctoral students as co-authors)

http://www.abstractsonline.com/Plan/ViewSession.aspx?sKey=d071b808-dc09-42be-

a626-d31921c07073&mKey={8334BE29-8911-4991-8C31-32B32DD5E6C8}

- Mishara, A.L., Schwartz, M. “Delusional Psychosis in Early Schizophrenia:

Existentialism Meets Neuroscience?” Judaism, Science & Medicine Group, Emory

University October 30-31, 2011, organized as collaboration between the Center for

Jewish Studies at Arizona State University and the Emory Center for Ethics.

- Mishara, A.L., Cohen, S. “What is Empathy? Is it trainable? What do the Arts and

Neuroscience tell us?” Socratic Roundtable, Academic Center for Excellence, The

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, November 1, 2011 (clinical doctoral

student as co-author)

- Mishara, A.L. Invited panel to comment on artists' and art students' work from the Art

Institute in a: BODY OF WORK at the International Museum of Surgical Science,

Chicago, IL an exhibition of historically inspired site-specific artistic interventions

including sculpture, painting, installation, video, sound, and literary works, from

October 22 through December 31, 2011.

- Mishara, A.L., Thorrud, K., Bonnemann, C. Quantifying the experience of delusions of

reference in beginning schizophrenia (poster) Society of Biological Psychiatry

Conference, San Francisco, CA, May, 2011. (clinical doctoral student as co-author)

- Mishara, A.L., Bonnemann, C. Chicago School Based International Multi-Site Narrative

Text Bank Initiative: Patient Voices: What it is like to have mental illness and how it is

integrated into the patient’s life-story? (Slide presentation) The Chicago School Multi-

campus Faculty Conference, May, 2011

- Dunkelblau, E., Mishara, A., Clinical Psychology, Kohler, K., Glenn, J., Hansen, W.

Community Psychology in Action. The Chicago School Multi-campus Faculty

Conference, May, 2011

- Mishara, A.L., Thorrud, K., Bonnemann, C., Phenomenology of disruption of self-

experience in delusions of reference in schizophrenia (poster). International Congress on

Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO, April, 2011 (clinical doctoral student as

co-author)

- Mishara, A.L. Director of Workshop: “Bridging Clinic and Clinical Neuroscience:

Loneliness, Social Anhedonia and Bonding in Schizophrenia” International Congress on

Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO, April, 2011

- Mishara, A.L. Primary Instructor, Continuing Education Course, Division 32 Humanistic

Psychology, American Psychological Association Meeting, “Phenomenological-

Humanistic Neuroscience as Paradigm Shift: Psychopathology, Healing, Altered

Conscious States” Chicago, IL, April, 2011.

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- K. Smith, C. Bonnemann, A. L. Mishara: Loneliness and Psychosis in Schizophrenia:

Interventions for Resilience (poster). Division 32 Humanistic Psychology, American

Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April, 2011 (Mentored Student

Presentation)

- E. Sieg, J. Acosta-Uribe, Lt Col L. Eugenia Uribe, F. Lopera, A. L. Mishara:

Phenomenological Approach to Body Experience in Phantom Limb Patients (poster).

Division 32 Humanistic Psychology, American Psychological Association Meeting,

Chicago, IL, April, 2011 (Mentored Student Presentation) (clinical doctoral student as

first author)

- K. Clews, S. Cohen, C. Bonnemann, A.L. Mishara: Phenomenological-Holistic

Approach to the experience of Time during Flashbacks in PTSD (poster). Division 32

Humanistic Psychology, American Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL,

April, 2011 (Mentored Student Presentation, clinical doctoral student as first and second

authors)

- Mishara, A.L. Delusional Psychosis in Early Schizophrenia: Existentialism meets

Neuroscience? Child and Adolescent Track Speaker Series, The Chicago School of

Professional Psychology, March, 2011

- Mishara, A.L. Narrating the Body: How Storytelling heals PTSD. Center for Academic

Excellence, Storytelling Speaker Series, The Chicago School of Professional

Psychology, March, 2011

- Mishara, A.L. Why we need phenomenology for the neuroscience of mental disorders.

Inaugural Keynote Lecture. 49th National Congress of Psychiatry, Santa Marta,

Colombia, October, 2010 (XLIX Congreso Colombiano de Psiquiatria)

- Mishara, A.L. Hypnagogic Models of the Self in Psychosis: Neuroscientific and

Phenomenological Approaches. Plenary Lecture. 49th National Congress of Psychiatry,

Santa Marta, Colombia, October, 2010

- Workshops concerning phenomenologic approaches to psychopathology and clinical

neuroscience for Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Universidad

Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, and Facultad de Medicina - Universidad Javeriana –

Bogota, Colombia

- Phenomenology and Neurobiology of Hypnagogic Models of Psychosis. Klinik für

Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

(MHH) Hannover, Germany. August, 2010

- Mishara, A.L. Phenomenology of Self in Delusions of Reference in Beginning

Schizophrenia. Poster. Society of Biological Psychiatry Conference, New Orleans, LA,

May, 2010

- Mishara, A.L. A component model of human self: What neuropsychiatric disorders and

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anomalous conscious states offer the neuroscientific study of self. Poster. Society for

Neuroscience, Chicago, Il (2009)

- Mishara, A.L., Greig, T.C., Nicholls, S.S., Bell, M.D. Reexamining theory of mind

impairment and negative symptoms in schizophrenia: A role for attentional

dysfunction? Poster. International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, San Diego,

April, 2009

- Kafka's Doubles and Paranoia: Hypnagogic vs. (Pre-)Reflective Models of Disrupted

Self in Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Anomalous Conscious States. Mind, Brain,

Culture and Consciousness (MBCC) Yale Working Group, Whitney Humanities Center,

Yale University, January, 2009.

- Does the Instrumental vs. Pavlovian Learning Distinction Contribute to our

Understanding of Paranoid Delusions in Schizophrenia? Neuroscience Research

Training Program (NRTP) Seminar, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School

of Medicine, December , 2008.

- Mishara, A.L. Reward Processing and Cognitive Control Deficits in Schizophrenia.

Brain Mapping Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. May, 2008.

- Mishara, A.L. Patients with schizophrenia exhibit compensatory rather than restorative

brain responses following cognitive remediation. (Poster). Biological Psychiatry,

Washington, DC, May, 2008.

- Mishara, A.L. Autoscopy (the illusion of seeing/experiencing a double): What it reveals

about self in neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuroscience Research Training Program

(NRTP) Seminar, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine,

February, 2008.

- Mishara, A.L. Patients with schizophrenia exhibit compensatory rather than restorative

brain responses following cognitive remediation: fMRI of working memory pre- and

post-treatment. (Slide Presentation). Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA,

November, 2007.

- Mishara, A.L. Using fMRI to study abnormal neuroplasticity in schizophrenia.

Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s

Hospital, Harvard Medical School, September, 2007.

- Mishara, A.L. Efficacy of forensic statement analysis in detecting deception in high

stress situations. IC Postdoctoral Colloquium, Chantilly, VA, May, 2007.

- Mishara, A.L. Standing Top Down Theories of Schizophrenia on their Head: fMRI

Evidence of Abnormal Compensation and Neuroplasticity. Magnetic Resonance

Research Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine. April,

2007.

- Mishara, A.L. Integrating Phenomenology and Cognitive Neuroscience: Subjective

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Experience of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Mind, Brain, Culture and Consciousness

(MBCC) Yale Working Group, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, January,

2007.

- Mishara, A.L. Persistence of Abnormal Default Mode Network Activity in Patients with

schizophrenia: A longitudinal fMRI study of Working Memory. (Slide Presentation).

Society for Neuroscience, October, 2006.

- Mishara, A.L. Neuroimaging the Self as Vulnerability: Abnormalities in Schizophrenia

and other neuropsychiatric disorders (Slide Presentation). “Philosophy, Psychiatry and

the Neurosciences” Conference June 28-July 1, 2006, Leiden, The Netherlands.

- Mishara, A.L. Chairperson and Organizer: "The Self, awareness of time, and its

disorders." (Participants: Helena De Preester, Georg Northoff, Aaron L. Mishara).

“Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Neurosciences” Conference June 28-July 1, 2006,

Leiden, The Netherlands

- Mishara, A.L., Bell, M.D., Fiszdon, J., Bryson, G, Nicholls, S., Wexler, B.E. Cognitive

remediation optimizes but does not normalize brain function in patients with

schizophrenia, (poster) Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry Conference, New York,

June 3, 2006.

- Mishara, A.L., Bell, M.D., Fiszdon, J., Bryson, G, Nicholls, S., Wexler, B.E. Cognitive

remediation improves but does not normalize brain function in schizophrenia: fMRI of a

novel working memory task pre- and post-treatment. (Slide presentation), Society for

Biological Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May, 2006

- Mishara, A.L., Bell, M.D., Fiszdon, J., Bryson, G, Nicholls, S., Wexler, B.E. Cognitive

remediation improves but does not normalize brain function in schizophrenia: fMRI of a

novel working memory task pre- and post-treatment. (Slide presentation), Society for

Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., November 12-16, 2005.

- Narrative and rehabilitation in severe mental illness (Slide Presentation), New

Philosophies for Community Psychiatry: Recovery Oriented, Evidence Based and

Beyond, Yale University, New Haven, October 16-18, 2005.

- Uhlhaas, P.J., Mishara, A.L. The perceptual field in schizophrenia: Context for delusions

and disrupted self-experience? (Poster). Phenomenology and Psychiatry for the 21st

Century, Institute for Psychiatry, London, U.K., September 5-6, 2005. Poster won “first

prize.”

- Mishara, A.L., Bell, M.D., Fiszdon, J., Bryson, G, Nicholls, S., Wexler, B.E. Changes in

cognition related brain activity following cognitive remediation of patients with

schizophrenia, (Slide Presentation) Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry Conference,

New York, June 3, 2005.

- Mishara, A.L., Gallistel, C.R. Are deficits in time perception in patients with

schizophrenia attributable to dysfunctional memory or an abnormal clock module?

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(poster), Biological Psychiatry Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May, 2005.

- Neuropsychology of time perception and schizophrenia, Motor Control Section,

NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD, March, 2004.

- A Meta-analysis of Conventional Neuroleptic Treatment and Cognition, Clinical Brain

Disorders Branch, NIMH/NIH, Bethesda, MD, August, 2003.

- A Meta-analysis of Conventional Neuroleptic Treatment and Cognition: Opening a

Closed Book. (Slide presentation). Biological Psychiatry Conference, San Francisco,

May, 2003

- Disruption of a perception action cycle in schizophrenia: core to the disorder? Body

Image and Schema: Neurophenomenological and Neuroscientific Perspectives, Ghent

University Belgium, March, 2003.

- Cognition and antipsychotic medication in schizophrenia. Institute for Psychiatry,

(invited lecture) Maudsley Hospital at De Crespigny Park, London, UK, July, 2002.

- The Inability to Disbelieve: Loss of Frame in Early Schizophrenic Psychosis.

Imagination in the Cognitive Sciences. Richmond University, London, UK, July, 2002.

- Disruption of the perception action cycle and cognition in schizophrenia. Hopitaux

Universitaires de Strasbourg Clinique Psychiatrique, (invited lecture) July, 2002.

- Pain, Depression, Memory Systems and Brain, University of Paris, June, 2001.

- Mind and Brain in Schizophrenia: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (Slide Presentation)

American Psychiatric Association, New Orleans, February, 2001

- Chairperson and Organizer: Symposium Agency and context: in schizophrenia

(Participants: Thomas Fuchs, Jeffrey A. Gray, Aaron L. Mishara). Società Italiana per la

Psicopatologia. Florence, Italy, August, 2000.

- Perception, action and context in schizophrenia. (Slide Presentation) Società Italiana per

la Psicopatologia Florence, Italy, August, 2000.

- Schema Formation and Levels of Processing in Schizophrenic Delusion. History of

Psychiatry Lecture Series, Weil Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry,

New York, New York April, 1999.

- Narrative: The Processing of Traumatic Memories, American Psychological Association,

San Francisco, CA August, 1998.

- Session Chair: Psychopathology and Narrative, Division 10, American Psychological

Association, San Francisco, CA August, 1998

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Media Interviews

- 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio, Take Two Interview with Dr. Aaron Mishara

and Lizzie Post, Emily Post Institute, on “Why Social Media Shaming is Getting out of

Hand,” February, 2015 http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2015/02/13/41558/why-

does-social-media-so-often-go-from-sharing-to/

Professional Service and Memberships:

Committee for assessing Admissions rubrics, Department of Clinical Psychology, The

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Southern California Campus Fall, 2014 –

Present

Committee for Faculty Promotion, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology,

Southern California Campus Fall, 2015 – present

Creating and editing an e-journal for The Virtual Academy for Overcoming Global Poverty,

an initiative launched by the Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Sofia Committee for WASC review, 2012-2013

Sofia Committee for Writing and Research Standards, 2013-

Strategic Plan Implementation Committee, Working Group for Promoting Faculty

Scholarship and Grant Applications, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Fall,

2011 - 2012

Committee for Multi-Campus Faculty Conference and Inter-campus Collaboration, The

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Fall 2010 – 2012

Faculty Search Committee, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Fall 2010 –

2012

Research Clerkship Mentor, Generalist Program, Department of Clinical

Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Fall 2011 – Present

Research Clerkship Mentor, Child and Adolescent Track, Department of Clinical

Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Fall 2010 – Present

Co-Director, Graz Chicago Summer School in Phenomenological Psychiatry and

Clinical Neuroscience, with psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists and students in these

and related professions from Europe attending, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria,

August, 2011

Committee of the Irwin Foundation, Celebration Recovery and Building Better

Tomorrows. Enhancing public awareness about the process of recovering from mental

disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Summer, 2010 – present

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International Advisory Board, Psychiatry and Freedom Conference, University of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, October 6-8, 2008

Co-Director, Working Group on Literary Theory, Cognition and the Brain, Whitney

Humanities Center, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, CT, 2007 - 2012

Co-Director, Working Group, Beauty and the Brain: Embodied Cognition, Neuroscience and

the Visual Arts, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, CT, 2007 -

2010.

Co-organizer, New Philosophies for Community Psychiatry: Recovery Oriented, Evidence

Based and Beyond, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, October 16-18, 2005

Participant-Presenter, Neuroscience Research Training Program (NRTP) Seminar,

Integrated Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Training (IMPORT) Seminar, for research-

dedicated training in the PG-II, III, IV years for elective clinical and/or basic research at

Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine (2007-2009)

Editorial Advisory Board, Revue de Psychiatrie, Sciences humaines, Neurosciences (PSN),

2004 –

Editorial Advisory Board, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM), PubMed

Central Open Access Journal, 2007 -

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal für Philosophie und Psychiatrie, 2009 -

Associate Editor, Activitas Nervosa Superior (ANS): The Journal for Neurocognitive

Research, 2010 -

Editorial Board, Journal of OA (Open Access) Medicine, Philosophy and Ethics in Medicine,

2013 –

Editorial Board, Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy Research, 2013 -

Co-editor of History and Philosophy Section, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 1997, 1995.

Co-editor for Sustainable Solutions for Overcoming Poverty (SSTOP), a new journal (the

Chicago School of Professional Psychology) (2016 - )

NIMH/NIH Education Committee to evaluate APA CE credits in proposed courses at NIH

(2003 - 2004)

Reviewer for: Archives of General Psychiatry; Biological Psychiatry; Cognitive

Neuropsychiatry; Consciousness and Cognition; Early Intervention in Psychiatry; Frontiers of

Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychiatry; History of Psychiatry; Journal of Consciousness

Studies; Neuroimage; Neuropsychology; Phenomenology and Cognitive Science; Philosophie

und Psychiatrie; Philosophy, Ethics, Humanities and Medicine (PEHM); Philosophy Psychiatry

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and Psychology (PPP); Psychopharmacology; Schizophrenia Bulletin; Schizophrenia

Research; Theory and Psychology

Consultant for English Language, Der Nervenarzt (Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology),

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (1993-4)

Faculty Search Committee, GSAPP-Rutgers, The State University of NJ (1998-9)

Webpages Listing Collaborative International Relationships:

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge University Neuroscience, Department of

Psychiatry, Human Brain Mapping Unit, Cambridge, UK

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?pcf22

For Graz-Chicago Summer School in Phenomenological Psychiatry and

Clinical Neuroscience at Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz:

http://www.uni-graz.at/sonja.rinofner/summerschool-preliminary-progr.pdf