Dr. Harrow, a former chessmaster who placed in the top 7 in the U.S. Open Chess Championship three times and has two draws in two tournament chess games against Bobby Fischer, is a psychologist who is a widely-cited expert on schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. He has published over 230 scientific papers and four books on these and related areas. For 28 of the last 30 years, he has been awarded, and still holds, major research grants from NIMH on schizophrenia. In the past, he also has been awarded research grants from the MacArthur Foundation and other funding agencies. Dr. Harrow has been on the Editorial Boards of four major professional journals. As Director of the Chicago Followup Study, he has received several national awards for his research on thought disorder, psychosis, long-term adjustment, suicide, and recovery in schizophrenia. These include the Gralnick Award by the American Association of Suicidology, an NIMH MERIT Award, and he is scheduled to receive the Zubin Award by the Society for Research in Psychopathology for lifetime contributions to the understanding of psychopathology.

Dr. Harrow, originally from New York City, received his B.A. from the City University of New York in 1955, his Ph.D. in Psychology from Indiana University in 1961 and later earned a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. He was on the faculty at Yale University for over 11 years, where he obtained the rank of Associate Professor prior to coming to Chicago in 1973 to assume positions as Director of Psychology at Michael Reese Medical Center and as Professor at the University of Chicago. In 1990, Dr. Harrow switched to his current position as Professor and Director of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry in the Medical College of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Representative Publications

Harrow, M, Herbener, ES, Jobe, TH, Shanklin, A, Rattenbury, F, Kaplan, KJ. Followup of Psychotic Outpatients: Dimension of delusions and work functioning in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 30:147-161, 2004.

Harrow, M, Jobe, TH, Herbener, ES, Goldberg, JF, Kaplan, KJ. Thought Disorder in Schizophrenia: Working memory and impaired context. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 192:3-11, 2004

Harrow, M, O’Connell, EM, Herbener, ES, Altman, AM, Kaplan, KJ, Jobe, TH. Disordered Verbalizations in Schizophrenia: A speech disturbance or thought disorder? Comprehensive Psychiatry 44:353-359, 2003.

Goldberg, JF, Harrow, M. Consistency of Remission and Outcome in Bipolar and Unipolar Mood Disorders: A 10-year prospective followup. Journal of Affective Disorders, 81, 123-131, 2004.

Herbener, ES, Harrow, M. The Course of Anhedonia During Ten Years of Schizophrenic Illness. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 111:237-248, 2002.

Goldberg J, Harrow M. Risk for bipolar illness in patients initially hospitalized for unipolar major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry 158:1265-1270, 2001.

Reed RA, Harrow M, Herbener ES, Martin EM: Executive function in schizophrenia: Is it linked to psychosis and poor life functioning. Journal of Nevous and Mental Disease, 190:725-732, 2002.

Racenstein, JW, Harrow, M, Herbener, E, Penn, DL. The Relationship Between Positive Symptoms and Instrumental Work Functioning in Schizophrenia: A 10-year Followup Study. Schizophrenia Research, 56:95-103, 2002.

Herbener E, Harrow M: Longitudinal assessment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia/schizoaffective patients, other psychotic patients and depressed patients. Schizophrenia Bulletin 27:527-537, 2001.

Harrow M, Grossman LS, Herbener E, Davis EW: Ten year outcome: Patients with schizoaffective disorders, schizophrenia, affective disorders, and mood-incongruent psychiatric symptoms. British Journal of Psychiatry 177:421-426, 2000.

Harrow M, Green KE, Sands JR, Jobe TH, Goldberg JF, Kaplan KJ, Martin EM: Thought disorder in schizophrenia and mania: Impaired context. Schizophrenia Bulletin 26:879-891, 2000.

Jobe T, Harrow M: Delusions. In: Kadzin AE (Ed)., Encyclopedia of Psychology, 467-469, Oxford Univ Press, NY, 2000.