Schizophrenia & Cognitive Health: Innovative Treatments And Insights With Matthew M. Kurtz.mp3
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by Matthew M. Kurtz, an associate professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where he is also Chair of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program.
Publishing over 50 academic papers and chapters on topics related to cognition and rehabilitation in schizophrenia, Matthew is at the forefront of cutting-edge treatment for the severely mentally ill. He is also the author of Schizophrenia and Its Treatment: Where Is the Progress?, a book that analyzes how diagnostic classifications and core pathology views limit schizophrenia treatment – advocating for individually tailored, multimodal treatments for distinct disorder features…
Dive in to learn about:
- Facts about schizophrenia that aren't commonly known.
- The persistent problems that schizophrenia patients face.
- How schizophrenia can impact problem-solving and language skills.
- The ways that schizophrenia can be passed down between family members.
How has Matthew's research impacted the conventional treatment of neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia? Click play to see for yourself!
You can find out more about Matthew's work with the Schizophrenia Cognition Lab here.
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| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Matthew M. Kurtz. |
| 0:43.0 | We're going to talk about the identification and treatment of neuropsychological defects, |
| 0:47.4 | deficits in schizophrenia and cognition in general. |
| 0:51.0 | I think it's going to be a very interesting call in dealing with various mental illnesses so welcome Matt. Thanks for coming. Yeah my pleasure. It's great to be here |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, if you would just tell us there is a bit about your background and you know how you came to study these |
| 1:03.4 | effects. Yeah so I started out as a experimental psychologist I was basically |
| 1:07.6 | studying a learning processes in rats in the psychology department and for a postdoctoral fellowship I actually got |
| 1:14.2 | I went through an interview and got a job offer as a postdoctoral fellow at the |
| 1:18.5 | University of Pennsylvania where they were focusing their efforts on |
| 1:21.0 | sort of understanding the neural basis of |
| 1:23.0 | schizophrenia and it was during this three-year training period that I |
| 1:27.8 | really got involved in doing schizophrenia research and I was able to apply |
| 1:31.0 | sort of the learning principles and the scientific principles that I'd learned as a learning-based psychologist at Princeton, |
| 1:38.0 | but was able to take this and start applying this to schizophrenia and the cognitive difficulties |
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