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  • German
  • Spanish

Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and a licensed psychologist in the state of Minnesota. I completed my BA in psychology and sociology here at UMN and received my MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland. I completed internship training at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center within Harvard Medical School. Prior to joining the department, I was a postdoctoral associate in the Cognition and Brain in Psychopathology Lab led by Scott Sponheim and in the Translational Research in Cognitive and Affective Mechanisms Lab led by Angus MacDonald III in the Department of Psychology at UMN. 

My research focuses on identifying risk factors and mechanisms underlying psychosis that can serve as novel, neuroplasticity-based intervention targets. My overarching research goal is to improve outcomes in psychotic disorders by enhancing early detection and improving treatments.

Qualifications

Board Certifications
Minnesota Board of Psychology
Medical School
B.A., University of Minnesota- College of Liberal Arts
Graduate School
M.A., University of Maryland
Post Grad School
PhD, University of Maryland

Recognition

In the Media: 

2023: The focus of this article titled, “Investigating the causes of mental illness key focus for new faculty member.”

Publications:

  • Demro, C., Mueller, B.A., Kent, J.S., Burton, P.C., Olman, C.A., Schallmo, M.-P., Lim, K.O., & Sponheim, S.R. (2021), The psychosis Human Connectome Project: An overview. NeuroImage, 118439
  • Schallmo, M.-P., Moser, H. R., Demro, C., Marjańska, M., & Sponheim, S. R. (2020), The role of GABA during visual contrast perception in psychosis. Journal of Vision, 20 (11): 340.
  • Akouri-Shan, L., Schiffman, J., Millman, Z.B., Demro, C., Fitzgerald, J., et al. (2021), Relations among anhedonia, reinforcement learning, and global functioning in help-seeking youth. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47 (6): 1534-1543.
  • Wilson, C. S., Anthony, L., Kenworthy, L., Fleischman, R., Demro, C., et al. (2020), Feasibility of psychosis risk assessment for adolescents diagnosed with autism. Autism, 24 (4): 834-850.
  • Millman, Z. B., Gallagher, K., Demro, C., Schiffman, J., et al. (2020), Evidence of reward system dysfunction in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis from two event-related fMRI paradigms. Schizophrenia Research, 226 111-119.
  • Tsuji, T., Phalen, P., Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, P., Millman, Z., Bussell, K., Thompson, E., Demro, C., Roemer, C., Reeves, G., & Schiffman, J. (2019), Using the K-SADS psychosis screen to identify people with early psychosis or psychosis risk syndromes. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 24 (4): 809-820.
  • Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, P.J., Pitts, S.C., Millman, Z.B., Andorko, N.D., Redman, S., Wilson, C., Demro, C., et al. (2019), The impact of age on the validity of the psychosis-risk screening in a sample of help-seeking youth. Psychiatry Research, 274 30-35.
  • Thompson, E., Rakhshan, P., Pitts, S. C., Demro, C., Millman, Z. B., Bussell, K., DeVylder, J., Kline, E., Reeves, G. M., & Schiffman, J. (2018), Family functioning moderates the impact of psychosis-risk symptoms on social and role functioning. Schizophrenia Research, S0920-9964 (18): 30548-6.
  • Demro, C., Rowland, L., Wijtenburg, S.A., Waltz, J., Gold, J., Kline, E., Thompson, E., Reeves, G., Hong, L.E., & Schiffman, J. (2017), Glutamatergic metabolites among adolescents at risk for psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 257 179-185. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.07.040.
  • Demro, C., Shen, C., Hendrickson, T., Arend, J. L., Disner, S. G., & Sponheim, S. R. (2022), Advanced brain-age in psychotic psychopathology: Evidence for transdiagnostic neurodevelopmental origins.. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14

Presentations:

  • Rawls, E., Demro, C., Teich, C. D., MacDonald, A. W., & Sponheim, S. R. "A translational model for reward learning: The translational bandit task (TBT) elicits robust reward learning behavior and ERP value coding in humans", Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting (2022), Vancouver, Canada,
  • Purcell, J., Demro, C., Lahud, E., Burton, P., Simon, J. J., & Sponheim, S. R. "Neural correlates of cognitive performance-driven monetary gain and loss outcomes in people with psychosis- spectrum disorders and first-degree relatives", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting (2022), Philadelphia, PA,
  • Arend, J. L., Demro, C., Kwashie, A. N. D., & MacDonald, A. W. "State estimation and learning in translational AX and Bandit task variants", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting (2022), Philadelphia, PA,
  • Lahud, E. J., Demro, C., Burton, P. C., Simon, J. J., & Sponheim, S. R. "Evidence of striatal hypoactivation across a spectrum of psychotic disorders during reward processing", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting (2021), Virtual,
  • Peyromaure de Bord, C., Demro, C., Blain, S., Tso, I., Sponheim, S. R., & Kent, J. "Investigating implicit theory of mind in individuals with psychotic disorders and their biological first-degree relatives", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA,
  • Arend, J., L., Demro, C., & Sponheim, S. R. "Examining the nature of impaired set-shifting in psychotic psychopathology", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting (2021), Virtual,
  • Shen, C., Demro, C., Disner, S.G., Hendrickson, T.J., & Sponheim, S.R. "Prediction of brain age in individuals with psychotic disorders and their biological relatives", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting (2019), Buffalo, NY,
  • Millman, Z. B., Gallagher, K., Schiffman, J., Demro, C., Reeves, G. M., Gold, J. M., et al. "Evidence of reward system dysfunction in youth at clinical high risk of psychosis from two event-related fMRI paradigms", Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting (2019), Buffalo, NY,
  • Demro, C., Schallmo, M., Marjanska, M., & Sponheim, S. "7T MR spectroscopy across psychotic illnesses and biological relatives", Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (2019), Orlando, FL,
  • Demro, C., Schallmo, M., Marjanska, M., & Sponheim, S. "7T MR spectroscopy across psychotic illnesses and biological relatives", Veterans Affairs Research Day (2019), Minneapolis, MN,

 

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