Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Education:

B.A. (Hons) 1974, Massey University
M. Phil 1980, Massey University
Psy.D. 1987, Rutgers University

Research interests include:

(a) Improving the psychometric properties of neuropsychological measures.

(b) Investigating factors critical to the validity of neuropsychological assessment (patient motivation, examiner judgment, and methods of clinical inference).

(c) Investigating the neuropsychological characteristics of psychiatric conditions, e.g. schizophrenia (particularly during the first episode prodrome).

(d) The detection of early stage dementia (specifically, improving the accuracy of the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment; differential diagnosis within MCI).

(e) Forensic applications of neuropsychology (e.g., in disability or injury claims).

Honors:

2002 Senior Scientist Award, Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia, Davos, Switzerland.

2004 Research Poster Prize, International Conference on Early Psychosis, Vancouver.

2005 Peterson Prize for contributions to Professional Psychology

Editorial Board Appointments:

J. International Neuropsychological Society
Clinical Neuropsychologist
J. Psychiatry & Neuroscience
Behavioural Neurology

Publications (selected):

Hawkins, K. A., Sledge, W.H., Hoffman, R.E., Quinlan, D.M., Rakefeldt, J., & Docherty, N.M. Cognition, Negative Symptoms, and Diagnosis: A Comparison of Schizophrenic, Bipolar, and Control Samples. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 9 (1), 81-89 (1997).

Hawkins, K.A., Sullivan, T.E, & Choi, E.J. (1997) Memory deficits in schizophrenia: Inadequate assimilation or true amnesia ? Findings from the WMS-R. J. Psychiat & Neuroscience, 22, 169-179.

Hawkins, K. A. (1998) Indicators of brain dysfunction derived from graphic representations of the WAIS-III/WMS-III Technical Manual clinical samples: Clinical Neuropsychologist, 12, 535-551.

Hawkins, K. A., Mohamed, S., & Woods, S. W. (1999) Will the novel antipsychotics ameliorate neuropsychological deficits and improve adaptive functioning in schizophrenia? Psych Med, 29, 1-8.

Hawkins, K. A., & Tulsky, D. (2003) WAIS-III WMS-III discrepancy analysis: Six-factor model index discrepancy base rates, implications, and utility. In D. Tulsky, D. Saklofske, G. Chelune et al. (Eds.) Clinical Interpretation of the WAIS-III and WMS-III. San Diego: Academic Press.

Hoffman, R.E., Hawkins, K.A., Gueorguieva et al. (2003) One hertz transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex reduces medication resistant auditory hallucinations. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60 (1): 49-56.

Hawkins, K.A., Keefe, R.S., Christensen, B., Addington, J., Perkins, D.O., Zipursky. R.B., Woods, S.W., Miller, T.J., Marquez, E., Breier, A., McGlashan, T.H. (2004) Neuropsychological status of subjects at high risk for a first episode of psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 67: 115-22.

Hawkins, K.A., McGlashan, T.H., Quinlan, D., Perkins, D.O., Zipursky. R.B., Addington, J., Woods, S.W. (2004) Factorial structure of the Scale of Prodromal Symptoms. Schiz Res., 68: 339-347.

Copyright © . Yale University School of Medicine, Psychiatry Department. All rights reserved.
Comments or suggestions to the site editor.

Home URL: http://info.med.yale.edu/ysm