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* BOOKS by Dr. Amador: To see all books CLICK HERE to be redirected.

* ARTICLES by Dr. Amador:

Schizophrenia Digest July 20007: Why We Must Mourn

Schizophrenia Digest May 2007: Working together - Communication and consideration


CNS Special Report on Insight

* JOURNAL ARTICLES by Dr. Amador: Peer Reviewed (PARTIAL LIST)

  1. Marc Bourgeois, Xavier Amador, et al. Awareness of Disorder and Suicide Risk… Results of the International Suicide Prevention Trial. The American Journal of Psychiatry. Aug 2004. Vol. 161, Iss. 8, p. 1494-1496
  2. Brebion G, Bressan RA, Amador X, Malaspina D, Gorman JM. Medications and verbal memory impairment in schizophrenia: the role of anticholinergic drugs. Psychol Med. 2004 Feb;34(2):369-74.
  3. Amador, XF, Fitzpatrick, M. “Science to Services: Consumers need “Real-World Science.” NIMH Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2003.
  4. Pini S., Amador XF. Dell’Osso L. Baldini Rossi N. Cassano P. Savino M. Cassano GB. Treatment of depression with comorbid anxiety disorders: differential efficacy of paroxetine versus moclobemide. International Clinical Psychopharmacology. 18(1):15-21, 2003
  5. Goodwin RD. Amador XF. Malaspina D. Yale SA. Goetz RR. Gorman JM. Anxiety and substance use comorbidity among inpatients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 61(1):89-95, 2003
  6. Butler PD. DeSanti LA. Maddox J. Harkavy-Friedman JM. Amador XF. Goetz RR. Javitt DC. Gorman JM. Visual backward-masking deficits in schizophrenia: relationship to visual pathway function and symptomatology. Schizophrenia Research. 59(2-3):199-209, 2003
  7. Brebion, G., Bressan, R., Amador, XF., Malaspina, D., and Gorman, J. “Medications and verbal memory impairment - The role of anticholinergic drugs.” Psychological Medicine, in press.
  8. Yale SA, Goetz R, Marcinko L, Amador X, Malaspina D “A latent factor analysis of the Deficit Syndrome criteria” Schizophrenia Research 60 (1): 30-30 (published abstract) Suppl. S MAR 15 2003.
  9. Rosenfield, P. Amador, XF., Goetz, R., Malaspina, D., “Eye Tracking and Smell Identification in Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia” American Journal of Psychiatry, submitted.
  10. Goodwin, RD, Amador, XF, Malaspina, D, et al. “Anxiety and substance use comorbidity among inpatients with schizophrenia” Schizophrenia Research 61 (1): 89-95, 2003.
  11. Pini, S, Dell’Osso, L, Amador, XF, et al. “Awareness of illness in patients with bipolar I disorder with or without comorbid anxiety disorders” AUST NZ J PSYCHIAT 37 (3): 355-361 JUN 2003.
  12. Butler PD, DeSanti LA, Maddox J, Harkavy-Friedman JM, Amador XF, Goetz RR, Javitt DC, Gorman JM., “Visual backward-masking deficits in schizophrenia: relationship to visual pathway function and symptomatology” SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH 59 (2-3): 199-209 2003
  13. Dell’Osso L. Pini S. Cassano GB. Mastrocinque C. Seckinger RA. Saettoni M. Papasogli A. Yale SA. Amador XF. Insight into illness in patients with mania, mixed mania, bipolar depression and major depression with psychotic features. [Journal Article] Bipolar Disorders. 4(5):315-22, 2002
  14. Malaspina, D, Coleman, E, Goetz, RR, Amador, XF., et al. “Odor identification, eye tracking and deficit syndrome schizophrenia” BIOL PSYCHIAT 51 (10): 809-815 MAY 15 2002
  15. Amador, XF, Shiva, AA. “Insight into schizophrenia.” Civil Rights Law Journal, 12(8): 401-415, 2001.
  16. Amador, XF, Seckinger, RA, Kasapis, C, et al. “Anosognosia in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder” SCHIZOPHR RES 49 (1-2): 10-10 (published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI Suppl. S APR 15 2001
  17. Pini S. Cassano GB. Dell’Osso L. Amador XF. Insight into illness in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and mood disorders with psychotic features. American Journal of Psychiatry. 158(1):122-5, 2001 Jan.
  18. Friedman, MS, Bruder, GE, Nestor, PG, Amador XF, et al. “Perceptual asymmetries in schizophrenia: Subtype differences in left hemisphere dominance for dichotic fused words” AM J PSYCHIAT 158 (9): 1437-1440 SEP 2001
  19. Alia-Klein, N, O’Rourke, T, Yale, SA, Amador, XF., et al. “Violence Assessment Scale (VAS): A study of validity and reliability and suggestions for future use” SCHIZOPHR RES 49 (1-2): 256-256 (published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI Suppl. S APR 15 2001
  20. Wilson, ST, Amador, XF “Personality, insight, and compliance in schizophrenia” SCHIZOPHR RES 49 (1-2): 147-147 (published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI Suppl. S APR 15 2001
  21. Friedman MS, Bruder GE, Nestor PG, Stuart BK, Amador XF, Gorman JM Perceptual asymmetries in schizophrenia: Subtype differences in left hemisphere dominance for dichotic fused words AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 158 (9): 1437-1440 SEP 2001
  22. Vinogradov, S, Amador, XF, Clarke, J Schizophrenia and the death penalty SCHIZOPHR RES 49 (1-2): 278-278 (published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI Suppl. S APR 15 2001
  23. Amador, XF, Reshmi, P. “Defending the Unabomber: Anosognosia and schizophrenia.” Psychiatric Quarterly, 71(4):363-370, 2000.
  24. Jürgen K, Bruder GE, Tenke CE, Stuart BK, Amador XF, & Gorman, JM. “Event-related potentials (ERPs) in schizophrenia for tonal and phonetic oddball tasks.” Society of Biological Psychiatry, 49:832-847, 2001.
  25. Coleman, EA, Malaspina, D, Amador, XF, et al. “Odor identification, eye tracking and the deficit syndrome” SCHIZOPHR RES 49 (1-2): 102-103 Sp. Iss. SI Suppl. S APR 15 2001
  26. Seckinger, RA, Amador, XF. “Cognitive-behavioral therapy in schizophrenia.” Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2001.
  27. Brébion, G, Gorman, JM, Malaspina, D, Sharif, Z, Amador, XF. “Clinical and cognitive factors associated with verbal memory task performance in patients with schizophrenia.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(5): 758-764, 2001.
  28. Malaspina, D, Goetz, RR, Yale S, Berman BS, Friedman JH, Tremeau F, Prinz, D, Amador, XF, Johnson J, Brown A, Gorman JM. “Relation of familial schizophrenia to negative symptoms but not to the deficit syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry 157(6): 994-1003, 2000.
  29. Corcoran, CM, Goetz, R, Amador, X, et al. “Depression and higher IQ associated with premorbid Traumatic Brain Injury in schizophrenia” BIOL PSYCHIAT 47 (8): 91 (published abstract) Suppl. S APR 15 2000
  30. Brébion, G, Amador, XF, Smith, M, Malaspina, D, Sharif, Z, Gorman, J. “Depression, psychomotor retardation, negative symptoms and memory in schizophrenia.” Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 13(3), 2000.
  31. Brébion, G, Amador, XF, David A, M, Malaspina, D, Sharif, Z, Gorman, J. “Positive symptom ology and source-monitoring failure in schizophrenia: An analysis of symptom-specific effects.” Psychiatry Research, 2000.
  32. Susser, E, Finnerty, M, Mojtabai, R, Amador, XF., et al. “Reliability of the Life Chart Schedule for assessment of the long-term course of schizophrenia” SCHIZOPHR RES 42 (1): 67-77 MAR 16 2000
  33. Limpert, C, Amador, XF, Seckinger, RA, et al. “Diminished emotional experience and its relationship to poor insight in schizophrenia” SCHIZOPHR RES 41 (1): A29 (published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI JAN 3 2000
  34. Amador XF, Kirkpatrick B, Buchanan RW, Carpenter WT, Marcinko L, Yale SA. “Stability of the diagnosis of deficit syndrome in schizophrenia.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 156(4): 637-639, 1999.
  35. Marcinko, L, Amador, XF, Yale, S Latent class analysis of the neurodevelopmental, and deficit syndromes in schizophrenia SCHIZOPHR RES 36 (1-3): 24-24 APR 1999
  36. Harkavy-Friedman, JM, Nelson, E, Amador, X, et al. “Aggression, impulsivity, suicidal behavior, and clinical features in schizophrenia” SCHIZOPHR RES 36 (1-3): 19-19 (published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI APR 1999
  37. Brébion, G, Amador, XF, Smith, MJ, Malaspina, D, Sharif, Z, Gorman, JM. “Opposite links of positive and negative symptom ology with memory errors in schizophrenia.” Psychiatry Research, 88:15-24, 1999.
  38. Malaspina, D, Friedman, JH, Goetz, R, Amador, XF., et al. Resistance of negative symptoms to neuroleptic treatment in familial schizophrenia SCHIZOPHR RES 36 (1-3): 287-288(published abstract) Sp. Iss. SI APR 1999
  39. Jürgen K, Bruder GE, Friedman, D, Tenke, CE, Amador, XF, Clark, SC, Malaspina, D, Gorman, JM. “Brain event-related potentials (ERPs) in schizophrenia during a word recognition memory task.” International Journal of Psychophysiology, 34:249-