Representative Publications

1. *Bergson, Z., Vassall, S.G., Wright, A., McCoy, A.B., Schafer, K.M., Achee, M.C., Sheffield, J.M. (accepted). Characterizing artificial intelligence psychosis in a large medical setting. JAMA Psychiatry

2. *Halverson, A., Kittleson A.R., Liu, J., So, S.H.W, Sheffield, J.M. (accepted). Trajectory-based clustering of delusion recovery in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: Associations with self-reported and task-based reasoning biases. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

3. Sheffield, J. M., Hall, L. M., Liu, J., Leslie, E., Sloan, A. F., Beals, K., ... & Corlett, P. R. (In Press). Longitudinal associations between volatility priors and delusions in individuals recovering from an acute psychotic episode. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

4. Sheffield, J. M., Sloan, A. F., Corlett, P. R., Rogers, B. P., Vandekar, S., Liu, J., Beals, K. M., Hall, L. M., Gautier, T., Moussa-Tooks, A. B., Torregrossa, L. J., Achee, M., Armstrong, K., Woodward, N. D., Belt, K., Freeman, D., Isham, L., Diamond, R., Brinen, A. P., & Heckers, S. (2025). Prior Expectations of Volatility Following Psychotherapy for Delusions: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA network open, 8(6), e2517132. 

5. Sheffield, J. M., Sloan, A., Liu, J., Beals, K., Hall, L., Gautier, T., ... & Brinen, A. P. (2026). Effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for worry versus befriending therapy in individuals with persecutory delusions: a randomized trial. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, sgag026.

6. Brinen, A.P., Sloan, A.S, Hall, L.M., Skikic, M., Cassidy, R… Sheffield, J.M. (2026). Integrating recovery-oriented cognitive therapy and medication management visit: feasibility and acceptability. Psychiatric Services

7. Feola, B., Wu, H., Heckers, S., Blackford, J.U., Woodward, N.D., Liu, J., Sheffield, J.M. (2026). Contributions of worry and social anxiety to paranoia in clinical and non-clinical samples: cross-sectional and longitudinal results. British Journal of Clinical Psychology

8. *Vassall, S. Rogers, B., Sloan, A., Suthaharan, P., Corlett, P.R., Sheffield, J.M. (In Press). Paranoia differentiates meso-limbic activations in schizophrenia during volatility-related belief updating. Schizophrenia Bulletin

9. Sheffield, J. M., Brinen, A. P., Feola, B., Heckers, S., & Corlett, P. R. (2024). Understanding Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis Through the Predictive Coding Framework. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 4(4), 100333. 

10. *Kittleson, A., Woodward, N., McHugo, M., Liu, J., Vandekar, J., Armstrong, K., Rogers, B., Heckers, S., & Sheffield, J.M. (2025). A 2-year longitudinal investigation of insula cortical thickness and surface area in early psychosis. Schizophrenia Research. PMID: 40845555 

11. *Kittleson, A. R., Woodward, N. D., Heckers, S., & Sheffield, J. M. (2024). The insula: Leveraging cellular and systems-level research to better understand its roles in health and schizophrenia. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105643. PMID: 38531518

12. *Sloan, A.F., Kittleson, A.R., Torregrossa, L.J., Feola, B., Rossi-Goldthorpe, R., Corlett, P.R., & Sheffield, J.M. (2024). Belief updating, childhood maltreatment and paranoia in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. PMID: 38701234

13. Sheffield, J.M., Huang, A.S., Rogers, B., Blackford, J., Heckers, S., Woodward, N.D. (2021). Insula sub-regions across the psychosis spectrum: morphology and clinical correlates. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), 1-13. PMID: 34088895

14. Sheffield, J.M., Kandala, S., Tamminga, C., Pearlson, G., Lerman-Sinkoff, D…, Barch, D.M. (2017). Trans-diagnostic associations between functional network integrity and cognition. JAMA Psychiatry. 74(6), 605-613. PMID: 28467520

*trainee led publications