| Author | | Lea Vella has published 33 peer reviewed psychology journal studies.
Validating the measurement of real-world functional outcomes: phase I results of the VALERO study
…, T Raykov, EW Twamley, L Vella… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Treatment of cognitive impairment has been proposed as an intervention to
reduce disability in people with schizophrenia. The Validation of Everyday Real-World
Outcomes (VALERO) study was conducted to evaluate functional rating scales and to ...
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7 - Relationships among depressive symptoms, benefit-finding, optimism, and positive affect in multiple sclerosis patients after psychotherapy for depression.
Stacey L SL Hart, Lea L Vella and David C DC Mohr. Health Psychol 27(2):230-8 (2008) PMID 18377142
Data were analyzed with multilevel random-effects models, controlling for time since MS diagnosis and type of treatment. Improved depression was associated with increased benefit-finding over time.
Relationships among depressive symptoms, benefit-finding, optimism, and positive affect in multiple sclerosis patients after psychotherapy for depression.
SL Hart, L Vella, DC Mohr - Health Psychology, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
1. Objective: While many patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience psychological
problems, such as depression, benefit-finding is commonly reported. Using the Broaden-and-
Build Model of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001) and the Expectancy-Value Model of ...
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8 - Assessing everyday functioning in schizophrenia: Not all informants seem equally informative.
Samir Sabbag, Elizabeth M Twamley... Philip D Harvey. Schizophr Res () (2011) PMID 21620682
Self reports of everyday functioning on the part of people with schizophrenia have been found to be poorly correlated with the reports of other informants and with their own performance of tests of cognition and functional abilities.
Assessing everyday functioning in schizophrenia: not all informants seem equally informative
S Sabbag, EM Twamley, L Vella, RK Heaton… - Schizophrenia …, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract Self reports of everyday functioning on the part of people with schizophrenia have
been found to be poorly correlated with the reports of other informants and with their own
performance of tests of cognition and functional abilities. However, it is not clear which ...
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9 - Reduction in disability in a randomized controlled trial of telephone-administered cognitive-behavioral therapy.
David C Mohr, Stacey Hart and Lea Vella. Health Psychol 26(5):554-63 (2007) PMID 17845107
Patients in both treatments showed significant improvements in disability and fatigue. These improvements were related to reductions in depression. T-CBT produced significantly greater decreases in disability and fatigue, compared with T-SEFT, even after controlling for depression. The greater benef...
Reduction in disability in a randomized controlled trial of telephone-administered cognitive-behavioral therapy.
DC Mohr, S Hart, L Vella - Health Psychology, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
1. Objective: The authors examined the efficacy of telephone-administered cognitive-
behavioral therapy (T-CBT) and telephone-administered supportive emotion-focused
therapy (T-SEFT) in reducing disability among disabled patients with multiple sclerosis ...
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10 - Predictors of the accuracy of self assessment of everyday functioning in people with schizophrenia
S Sabbag, EW Twamley, L Vella, RK Heaton… - Schizophrenia …, 2012 - Elsevier
Despite multiple lines of evidence suggesting that people with schizophrenia have
substantial problems in self-reporting everyday functioning and cognitive performance, self-
report methods are still widely used to assess functioning. This study attempted to identify ...
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11 -Compensatory cognitive training for psychosis: who benefits? Who stays in treatment?
Elizabeth W Twamley, Cynthia Z Burton and Lea Vella. Schizophr Bull 37 Suppl 2():S55-62 (2011) PMID 21860048
These results suggest that those with lower baseline functioning may have more room to improve following CT. The pattern of correlations in this sample indicated that many types of individuals can improve with CT treatment, including older patients....
Compensatory cognitive training for psychosis: effects in a randomized controlled trial
EW Twamley, L Vella, CZ Burton… - The Journal of clinical …, 2012 - psychiatrist.com
Objective: Treatments for the cognitive impairments of schizophrenia are urgently needed.
We developed and tested a 12-week, group-based, manualized, compensatory cognitive
training intervention targeting prospective memory, attention, learning/memory, and ...
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12 - Compensatory cognitive training for psychosis: who benefits? Who stays in treatment?
EW Twamley, CZ Burton, L Vella - Schizophrenia bulletin, 2011 - MPRC
Abstract Enhancing cognitive performance to improve functioning in schizophrenia is a
fundamental research priority. Previous investigations have demonstrated that various types
of cognitive training (CT) can improve neuropsychological performance, psychosocial ...
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13 - Alliance in Two Telephone-Administered Treatments: Relationship with Depression and Health Outcomes
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v75 n3 p508-512 Jun 2007
Beckner, Victoria; Vella, Lea; Howard, Isa; Mohr, David C.
Alliance in two telephone-administered treatments: Relationship with depression and health outcomes.
V Beckner, L Vella, I Howard… - Journal of Consulting and …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract 1. The present study examined the relationship between therapeutic alliance and
both depression and health outcomes in a randomized clinical trial of 2 telephone-
administered treatments with 97 clients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The 16-week...
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14 - Telephone-administered psychotherapy for depression in MS patients: moderating role of social support
Victoria Beckner, Isa Howard... David C Mohr. J Behav Med 33(1):47-59 (2009) PMID 19941048
We examined whether baseline social support might differentially affect treatment outcome in 127 participants with MS and depression randomized to either Telephone-administered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (T-CBT) or Telephone-administered Emotion-Focused Therapy (T-EFT).
Telephone-administered psychotherapy for depression in MS patients: moderating role of social support
V Beckner, I Howard, L Vella, DC Mohr - Journal of behavioral medicine, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Depression is common in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). While
psychotherapy is an effective treatment for depression, not all individuals benefit. We
examined whether baseline social support might differentially affect treatment outcome in ...
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15 - The efficacy of supported employment for middle-aged and older people with schizophrenia.
Elizabeth W Twamley, Lea Vella... Dilip V Jeste. Schizophr Res () (2011) PMID 22197080
Middle-aged and older adults with schizophrenia are good candidates for supported employment services.
The efficacy of supported employment for middle-aged and older people with schizophrenia
EW Twamley, L Vella, CZ Burton, DR Becker… - Schizophrenia …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Supported employment is the evidence-based treatment of choice for assisting
individuals with severe mental illness to achieve competitive employment, but few supported
employment programs specifically target older clients with psychiatric illness. The purpose ...
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16 - Factor structure of the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) in schizophrenia
CZ Burton, L Vella, PD Harvey, TL Patterson… - Schizophrenia …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) and proposed co-
primary measures are gaining momentum as outcome measures in clinical trials,
highlighting the need to evaluate their psychometric properties. The MCCB composite ...
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17 - Differential effects of executive functioning on suicide attempts.
Cynthia Z Burton, Lea Vella... Elizabeth W Twamley. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 23(2):173-9 (2011) PMID 21677246
Suicide is common among individuals with psychiatric illness; executive functioning may be associated with suicide risk. The authors examined demographic, clinical, and executive-functioning variables in suicide ideators and suicide attempters, hypothesizing that attempters would dem...
Differential effects of executive functioning on suicide attempts
CZ Burton, L Vella, JA Weller… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Neuropsych Assoc
Suicide is common among individuals with psychiatric illness; executive functioning may be
associated with suicide risk. The authors examined demographic, clinical, and executive-
functioning variables in suicide ideators and suicide attempters, hypothesizing that ...
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18 - Factor structure of neurocognition and functional capacity in schizophrenia: a multidimensional examination of temporal stability
…, T Raykov, EW Twamley, L Vella… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract Although neurocognition is commonly described in terms of different functional
domains, some factor analytic studies have suggested a simpler dimensional structure for
neuropsychological (NP) tests in patients with schizophrenia. Standardized tasks of ...
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19 - Homelessness and neuropsychological impairment: preliminary analysis of adults entering outpatient psychiatric treatment.
Chad A Bousman, Elizabeth W Twamley... Robert K Heaton. J Nerv Ment Dis 198(11):790-4 (2010) PMID 21048468
We performed brief NP testing examining learning, recall, processing speed, executive functioning, and verbal fluency in 50 ever- and 22 never-homeless persons entering outpatient psychiatric treatment. Groups were matched a priori on key demographic, substance use, psychiatric, and premorbid intell...
Homelessness and neuropsychological impairment: Preliminary analysis of adults entering outpatient psychiatric treatment
CA Bousman, EW Twamley, L Vella… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Homelessness has been associated with neuropsychological (NP) impairment, but
few studies have adequately controlled for factors known to affect NP performance. We
performed brief NP testing examining learning, recall, processing speed, executive ...
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20 - Clinical and cognitive insight in a compensatory cognitive training intervention
CZ Burton, L Vella, EW Twamley - American journal of psychiatric …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of limited insight is a crucial consideration in the treatment of individuals with
psychiatric illness. In the context of psychosis, both clinical and cognitive insight have been
described. This study aimed to evaluate the relationships between clinical and cognitive ...
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21- Effects of COMT genotype on cognitive ability and functional capacity in individuals with schizophrenia
EW Twamley, JPY Hua, CZ Burton, L Vella… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Cognitive and functional impairments are core features of schizophrenia. This study
examined the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genotype and its relationship to
cognition and functional capacity in 188 individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective ...
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22 - Stress Facilitates Consolidation of Verbal Memory for a Film but Does Not, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2006, Vol. 120, No. 3, 518–527, Affect Retrieval, Victoria E. Beckner, David M. Tucker, and Yvon Delville, David C. Mohr (Lea Vella for her statistical consultation)
Stress facilitates consolidation of verbal memory for a film but does not affect retrieval.
VE Beckner, DM Tucker, Y Delville… - Behavioral …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
... We would also like to thank Owen Wolkowitz, Heather Burke, and Russell Lemle for
their thoughtful reading of the manuscript; Lea Vella for her statistical consultation;
and Doug Beckner for his graphics consultation. Appreciation ...
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23 - [BOOK] Neurocognition and social cognition in schizophrenia patients: basic concepts and treatment
V Roder, A Medalia - 2010 - books.google.com
... The subchapter by Elizabeth W. Twamley, Cynthia H. Zurhellen and Lea Vella describes a
concrete therapy approach for neurocognition, while chapter 4, by Wolfgang Wölwer, Dennis
R. Combs, Nicole Frommann and David L. Penn, synthesizes the literature on behavioral ...
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24 - [HTML] A quantitative review of cognitive functioning in homeless adults
CA Depp, L Vella, HJ Orff… - The Journal of nervous and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Homeless people experience elevated rates of risk factors for cognitive impairment.
We reviewed available peer-reviewed studies reporting data from objective measures of
cognition in samples identified as homeless. Pooled sample-weighted estimates of global ...
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25 - Supported Employment for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
CZ Burton, L Vella, EM Littlefield… - International handbook of …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Occupational dysfunction is one of the most devastating and disabling
consequences of severe mental illness. Supported employment (SE) is an evidence-based
practice for assisting clients with severe mental illness to find and keep competitive jobs in ...
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26 - [PDF] Cognitive Impairment and Disability Determination in the Sheltered Homeless
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Abstract With lifetime prevalence as high as 7% in the United States, homelessness
continues to be a major social and financial problem. In the context of a homeless shelter,
homeless individuals who are also cognitively impaired may be at a disadvantage when ...
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27 [PDF] Cognitive Assessment of the Sheltered Homeless
L Vella - 2014 - escholarship.org
Homelessness is a major social and financial problem in the United States. A 1990 national
household telephone survey (n= 1,507) found that the lifetime prevalence of homelessness–
defined as staying in shelters, emergency housing, cars, outside, and abandoned ...
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28 - Catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype and response to Compensatory Cognitive Training in outpatients with schizophrenia
CZ Burton, L Vella, JR Kelsoe, RM Bilder… - Psychiatric …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val 158 Met polymorphism is associated
with cognitive functioning in schizophrenia and may predict cognitive training outcomes.
This study aimed to explore the contribution of COMT genotype in predicting improvement ...
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[CITATION] COMPENSATORY COGNITIVE TRAINING FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS IN SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT
EW Twamley, C Burton, L Vella… - …, 2015 - OXFORD UNIV PRESS GREAT …
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[CITATION] COMT GENOTYPE AND MEMORY PERFORMANCE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
EW Twamley, L Vella, CZ Burton, GN Savla… - Schizophrenia …, 2010 - Elsevier
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[CITATION] ASSESSMENT OF VOCATIONAL CAPACITY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
L Vella, NM Loebach, CZ Burton… - …, 2009 - OXFORD UNIV PRESS GREAT …
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[CITATION] Interesting Articles
…, AM Nave, DF Tolin, C Michael, EW Twamley, L Vella… - Psychiatry, 2012
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[CITATION] THE MATRICS CONSENSUS COGNITIVE BATTERY: RELATIONSHIPS WITH PERFORMANCE-BASED MEASURES OF FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY
L Vella, CZ Burton, PD Harvey… - …, 2011 - OXFORD UNIV PRESS GREAT …
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29 - Genes and Schizophrenia—Feature Editor: Aiden Corvin Where GWAS and Epidemiology Meet: Opportunities for the Simultaneous Study of Genetic
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... 979 Gauri N. Savla, Lea Vella, Casey C. Armstrong, David L. Penn, and Elizabeth W. Twamley
Effects of Risperidone and Olanzapine Dose Reduction on Cognitive Function in Stable Patients
With Schizophrenia: An Open-Label, Randomized, Controlled, Pilot Study . . . . . ...
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[CITATION] Positive Psychology at Melbourne
W Ngo - 2012 - The University of Melbourne
30 - Therapeutic alliance mediates the relationship between interpersonal problems and depression outcome in a cohort of multiple sclerosis patients
Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 62 Issue 9, Pages 1197 - 1204, Published Online: 29 Jun 2006
Isa Howard, Rebecca Turner, Rhoda Olkin, David C. Mohr In addition, I would like to thank Lea Vella for her help with the statistical analyses.
Therapeutic alliance mediates the relationship between interpersonal problems and depression outcome in a cohort of multiple sclerosis patients
I Howard, R Turner, R Olkin… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... I would like to thank the three members of my committee, Dr. Rebecca Turner, Dr. Rhoda
Olkin, and Dr. David Mohr, for their generosity and contributions to this work. In addition,
I would like to thank Lea Vella for her help with the statistical analyses. ...
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31 - [PDF] Neurocognitive insight in people with schizophrenia
CZ Burton - 2015 - escholarship.org
... Burton, Cynthia Z; Vella, Lea; Twamley, Elizabeth W., Routledge Press, 2011. The dissertation author was the primary investigator and author of this paper. Chapters 3 and 4 are currently being prepared for submission for publication of the material. ...
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32 - Compensatory cognitive training for people with first-episode schizophrenia: Results from a pilot randomized controlled trial
PD Mendella, CZ Burton, GA Tasca, P Roy… - Schizophrenia …, 2015 - Elsevier
... data interpretation, and drafted the introduction section of the manuscript; Giorgio A. Tasca
conducted the initial analyses and contributed to data interpretation; Paul Roy contributed to
study design and data interpretation; Lea St ... Burton et al., 2013; CZ Burton, L. Vella, PD Harvey ...
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33 - Treatment of Surgical Scars Using a 595?nm Pulsed Dye Laser Using Purpuric and Nonpurpuric Parameters: A Comparative Study
JA Gladsjo, SIB Jiang - Dermatologic Surgery, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
... We thank Dr. E. Victor Ross for his input on the design of our study. We also appreciate the
statistical advice and expertise of Lea Vella, who performed the data analysis. Appendix. ... |
Dr. Lea Vella MPH, PhD
