Graduate Student

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Broadly, Sam is interested in the associations between aberrant visual perception, symptomatology, and cognition in patients with schizophrenia. Additionally, he seeks to identify specific visual processing deficits that may indicate a genetic liability for psychosis. He is also interested in the affective components of substance abuse disorders, namely hedonic dysregulation as a mechanism for the onset and maintenance of these disorders, and the high rates of comorbid substance use seen in patients with schizophrenia.