Deanna Barch
Deanna Marie Barch is Chair and Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and the Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University. Awards. Barch received the APA's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career for contributions to psychology in psychopathology and the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award. She is a Fellow for the Association for Psychological Science. Biography. Barch was born on July 20, 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her B.A. in psychology from Northwestern University in 1987. She received her M.A. in 1991 and her Ph.D in clinical psychology in 1993 from the University  of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1993-1994 and 1994–1997, she completed an internship in clinical psychology, postdoctoral fellowship and NIH training fellowship from Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical School. Barch is a deputy editor at Biological Psychiatry. She previously served as editor-in-chief of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience"." Barch is a member of the Society for Experimental Psychology. Research. Her research includes disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, cognitive and language deficits. She also focuses on behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies with normal and clinical populations. In 2013, Barch collaborated with Alan Ceaser to  research about cognition in schizophrenia and core psychological and neutral mechanisms. They believe that there is a common action that will cause people to get schizophrenia. They can review the pattern of it by examining the context processing, working memory and episodic memory.