Samantha Abram, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Grunfeld Scholars Research Development Initiative, UCSF, 2021
• UCSF Psychiatry Trainee Research Award, UCSF, 2020

Education & Training

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• Fellowship VA Advanced Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF 09/2021
• PhD Clinical Psychology University of Minnesota 07/2018
• Internship Clinical Psychology San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF 06/2018
• BA Psychology Washington University in St. Louis 05/2009

Grants and Projects

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• An EEG study of reward processing and memory dysfunction in schizophrenia, VA CSR&D, 2022-2027
• Translating from Rats to Humans: A Human Foraging Model of Decision-Making, NIH, 2015-2017

Publications (21)

Top publication keywords:
AmygdalaMemory, Short-TermFrontal LobeSocial PerceptionConnectomeMindfulnessSchizophreniaCerebral CortexSocial BehaviorSchizophrenic PsychologyNerve NetKetamineEmpathyOxytocinAggression

• Pons-to-Cerebellum Hypoconnectivity Along the Psychosis Spectrum and Associations With Sensory Prediction and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2024 Abram SV, Hua JPY, Nicholas S, Roach B, Keedy S, Sweeney JA, Mathalon DH, Ford JM
• Alpha Event-Related Desynchronization During Reward Processing in Schizophrenia.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2023 Fryer SL, Marton TF, Roach BJ, Holroyd CB, Abram SV, Lau KJ, Ford JM, McQuaid JR, Mathalon DH
• Cerebellar stimulation in schizophrenia: A systematic review of the evidence and an overview of the methods.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2022 Hua JPY, Abram SV, Ford JM
• Advanced brain age correlates with greater rumination and less mindfulness in schizophrenia.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2022 Abram SV, Roach BJ, Hua JPY, Han LKM, Mathalon DH, Ford JM, Fryer SL
• Consider the pons: bridging the gap on sensory prediction abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  Trends in neurosciences 2022 Abram SV, Hua JPY, Ford JM

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• Validation of ketamine as a pharmacological model of thalamic dysconnectivity across the illness course of schizophrenia.
  Molecular psychiatry 2022 Abram SV, Roach BJ, Fryer SL, Calhoun VD, Preda A, van Erp TGM, Bustillo JR, Lim KO, Loewy RL, Stuart BK, Krystal JH, Ford JM, Mathalon DH
• Psychological Dimensions Relevant to Motivation and Pleasure in Schizophrenia.
  Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 2022 Abram SV, Weittenhiller LP, Bertrand CE, McQuaid JR, Mathalon DH, Ford JM, Fryer SL
• Vicarious Trial-and-Error Is Enhanced During Deliberation in Human Virtual Navigation in a Translational Foraging Task.
  Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 2021 Huynh T, Alstatt K, Abram SV, Schmitzer-Torbert N
• Working memory and alcohol demand relationships differ according to PTSD symptom severity among veterans with AUD.
  Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology 2021 Abram SV, Batki SL, Pennington DL
• Reward processing electrophysiology in schizophrenia: Effects of age and illness phase.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2020 Abram SV, Roach BJ, Holroyd CB, Paulus MP, Ford JM, Mathalon DH, Fryer SL
• Oxytocin Enhances an Amygdala Circuit Associated With Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: A Single-Dose, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover, Randomized Control Trial.
  Schizophrenia bulletin 2020 Abram SV, De Coster L, Roach BJ, Mueller BA, van Erp TGM, Calhoun VD, Preda A, Lim KO, Turner JA, Ford JM, Mathalon DH, Woolley JD
• Learning From Loss After Risk: Dissociating Reward Pursuit and Reward Valuation in a Naturalistic Foraging Task.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2019 Abram SV, Redish AD, MacDonald AW
• Oxytocin does not improve working memory in schizophrenia.
  Schizophrenia research 2019 Bradley ER, van Nieuwenhuizen A, Abram S, Niles AN, Woolley JD
• The goal priority network as a neural substrate of Conscientiousness.
  Human brain mapping 2018 Rueter AR, Abram SV, MacDonald AW, Rustichini A, DeYoung CG
• Neural correlates of preserved facial affect perception in high functioning schizophrenia.
  Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 2017 Karpouzian TM, Schroeder MP, Abram SV, Wanar H, Alden EC, Eack SM, Csernansky JG, Smith MJ
• Default mode functional connectivity is associated with social functioning in schizophrenia.
  Journal of abnormal psychology 2017 Fox JM, Abram SV, Reilly JL, Eack S, Goldman MB, Csernansky JG, Wang L, Smith MJ
• Fronto-temporal connectivity predicts cognitive empathy deficits and experiential negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
  Human brain mapping 2016 Abram SV, Wisner KM, Fox JM, Barch DM, Wang L, Csernansky JG, MacDonald AW, Smith MJ
• Functional coherence of insula networks is associated with externalizing behavior.
  Journal of abnormal psychology 2015 Abram SV, Wisner KM, Grazioplene RG, Krueger RF, MacDonald AW, DeYoung CG
• Alterations in brain activation during cognitive empathy are related to social functioning in schizophrenia.
  Schizophrenia bulletin 2014 Smith MJ, Schroeder MP, Abram SV, Goldman MB, Parrish TB, Wang X, Derntl B, Habel U, Decety J, Reilly JL, Csernansky JG, Breiter HC
• Accurate perception of negative emotions predicts functional capacity in schizophrenia.
  Psychiatry research 2014 Abram SV, Karpouzian TM, Reilly JL, Derntl B, Habel U, Smith MJ
• Self-reported empathy deficits are uniquely associated with poor functioning in schizophrenia.
  Schizophrenia research 2012 Smith MJ, Horan WP, Karpouzian TM, Abram SV, Cobia DJ, Csernansky JG