Dr. McClure’s lab, which is housed at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai in New York City, is focused on treating cognitive, interpersonal, and functional deficits of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and schizotypal personality disorder using cognitive remediation therapy (CRT). Dr. McClure’s NARSAD Young Investigator Award (The Brain & Behavior Foundation) examines the impact of CRT when paired with an agent that targets the norepinephrine system compared to CRT plus placebo. Dr. McClure also collaborates on projects examining treatments personality disorders, such as borderline personality disorder, including studies of medications such as oxytocin and psychological interventions such as dialectical behavior therapy. Participants are recruited from the community in and around Mt. Sinai. Students working in this lab have the opportunity to conduct telephone screens of potential participants, observe diagnostic interviews and neuropsychological assessments, and sit in on CRT computerized training sessions. Work from the lab has been published in numerous psychology and psychiatry journals, such as Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Biological Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Research, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Psychiatry Research, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, and Clinical Neuorpsychopharmacology, among others, and has been presented at scientific conferences such as the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, the annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.
Dr. McClure’s lab in the psychology department at Fairfield University studies risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence in college student dating relationships, including childhood trauma, anxiety and mood symptoms, personality factors, and emotion regulation. Students working in this lab have the opportunity to interact with study participants by administering the computerized assessment battery and emotion regulation tasks, as well as to clean and analyze data. Work from this lab has been presented at annual meetings such as the Association for Psychological Science, the Eastern Psychological Association, and the New England Psychological Assocaition.