Abhishek Saxena, PhD
Postdoctoral AssociateAbout
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2026
Stepped Care for Youths at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis.
Broekhuijse A, Saxena A, Walsh B, Mourgues-Codern C, Mukhtar H, Howard S, Woods S, Powers A, Farina E. Stepped Care for Youths at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Psychiatric Services 2026, appips20250688. PMID: 42482276, DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.20250688.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStepped care for young people at clinical high risk for psychosis: a real-world study
Broekhuijse A, Saxena A, Walsh B, Mourgues-Codern C, Mukhtar H, Howard S, Woods SW, Powers AR, Farina EA. Stepped care for young people at clinical high risk for psychosis: a real-world study. 2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.05.26345683.Peer-Reviewed Original Research In Press
2025
Shift in sex and age of individuals at a clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis: relation to differences in recruitment methods and effect on sample characteristics
Farina E, Mourgues-Codern C, Stimler K, Kenney J, Saxena A, Mukhtar H, Addington J, Bearden C, Cadenhead K, Cannon T, Cornblatt B, Ellman L, Gold J, Keshavan M, Mathalon D, Mittal V, Perkins D, Schiffman J, Silverstein S, Strauss G, Stone W, Walker E, Waltz J, Corlett P, Powers A, Woods S. Shift in sex and age of individuals at a clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis: relation to differences in recruitment methods and effect on sample characteristics. Schizophrenia 2025, 11: 123. PMID: 41053030, PMCID: PMC12501016, DOI: 10.1038/s41537-025-00663-5.Peer-Reviewed Original Researchclinical high riskclinical high-risk samplesNorth American Prodrome Longitudinal Studyovert psychotic disorderssample characteristicssample of individualsnegative symptomspsychotic disorderspsychosis riskself-referralrecruitment sourcesbetween-study differencescomputerized assessmenthierarchical regressionpsychosisrecruitment source effectsclinical implicationslongitudinal studygeneral symptomsdemographic differencesclinical profilesymptomsparticipantsclinical heterogeneitysexPrediction of antipsychotic medication inception in antipsychotic-naive youth at clinical high risk for psychosis
Mukhtar H, Zhou D, Farina E, Saxena A, Cahill J, Addington J, Bearden C, Cadenhead K, Cannon T, Cornblatt B, Keshwan M, Mathalon D, Perkins D, Stone W, Cho Y, Powers A, Walker E, Woods S. Prediction of antipsychotic medication inception in antipsychotic-naive youth at clinical high risk for psychosis. Psychological Medicine 2025, 55: e241. PMID: 40842369, PMCID: PMC12404330, DOI: 10.1017/s0033291725101372.Peer-Reviewed Original Researchclinical high riskCHR-Plifetime historyaugmentation of antidepressant treatmentcomorbid major depressionAP useantidepressant treatmentpositive symptomsmajor depressionAP medicationNAPLS-2independent predictorsCHR-P.high riskbaseline clinical variablespsychosisbaseline predictorsclinical variablesparticipantsbaseline characteristicsunivariate analysislogistic regression modelsobservational cohortmultivariate analysisAP initiation
2024
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Przysinda E, Shovestul B, Saxena A, Dong X, Reda S, Dudek E, Lamberti J, Lalor E, Dodell-Feder D. Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience 2024, 19: nsae094. PMID: 39657722, PMCID: PMC11669317, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsae094.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTraining individuals with schizophrenia to gain volitional control of the theory of mind network with real-time fMRI: A pilot study
Kruse E, Saxena A, Shovestul B, Dudek E, Reda S, Dong J, Venkataraman A, Lamberti J, Dodell-Feder D. Training individuals with schizophrenia to gain volitional control of the theory of mind network with real-time fMRI: A pilot study. Schizophrenia Research Cognition 2024, 38: 100329. PMID: 39290206, PMCID: PMC11406017, DOI: 10.1016/j.scog.2024.100329.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDecision-making under risk and its correlates in schizophrenia
. Decision-making under risk and its correlates in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research Cognition 2024, 37: 100314. PMID: 38764743, PMCID: PMC11101893, DOI: 10.1016/j.scog.2024.100314.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSocial victimization, default mode network connectivity, and psychotic-like experiences in adolescents
. Social victimization, default mode network connectivity, and psychotic-like experiences in adolescents. Schizophrenia Research 2024, 264: 462-470. PMID: 38266514, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.01.019.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Training volitional control of the theory of mind network with real-time fMRI neurofeedback
. Training volitional control of the theory of mind network with real-time fMRI neurofeedback. NeuroImage 2023, 279: 120334. PMID: 37591479, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120334.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Social affective forecasting and social anhedonia in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a daily diary study
. Social affective forecasting and social anhedonia in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a daily diary study. Schizophrenia 2022, 8: 97. PMID: 36376338, PMCID: PMC9663197, DOI: 10.1038/s41537-022-00310-3.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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