Dr. Hill has an extensive background in neuropsychology, including post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University . Published work has focused on understanding cognitive deficits in schizophrenia using traditional neuropsychological tests. Current studies are focused on cognitive treatment effects and integrating neuropsychological/cognitive neuroscience approaches to evaluating pharmacological agents. Methods from neuropsychological and neurophysiological perspectives are integrated with translational models and functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the cognitive impact of pharmacological interventions. This work is critical to advancing future treatment of schizophrenia toward reduction of neurocognitive deficits and improvements in quality of life and daily living.

Hill , S.K., Schuepbach, D., Herbener, E.S., Keshavan, M.S., & Sweeney, J.A. (2004). Pretreatment and longitudinal studies of neuropsychological deficits in schizophrenia with never-medicated first-episode patients. Schizophrenia Research, 68 , 49-63.

Hill , S.K., Keshavan, M.S., Matcheri, T.S., & Sweeney, J.A. (2004). Neuropsychological dysfunction in antipsychotic naïve first-episode psychotic depression compared with first-episode schizophrenia and nonpsychotic unipolar depression. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 996-1003.

Hill , S.K., Beers, S.R., Kmiec, J.A., Keshavan, M.S., & Sweeney, J.A. (2004). Impairment of verbal memory and learning in antipsychotic-naïve patients with first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 68, 127-136.

Schuepbach, D., Hill , S.K., Sanders, R.D., Keshavan, M.S., & Sweeney, J.A. (2004). Early, treatment-induced improvement of negative symptoms predicts cognitive functioning in treatment-naïve first episode schizophrenia: A two-year follow-up. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30, 837-848.

Ragland, J.D., Moelter, S.T., McGrath, C., Hill , S.K., Gur, R.E., Bilker, W., Siegel, S.J., & Gur, R.C. (2003). Levels of processing effect on word recognition in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 54 (11) , 1154-1161.

Hill , S.K., Ragland, J.D., Gur, R.C., & Gur, R.E. (2002). Neuropsychological profiles delineate distinct profiles of schizophrenia, an interaction between memory and executive function, and uneven distribution of clinical subtypes. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 24, 765-780.

Hill , S.K., Ragland, J.D. Gur, R.C., & Gur, R.E. (2001). Neuropsychological differences among empirically derived clinical subtypes of schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 15 , 492-501.

Moelter, S.T., Hill , S.K., Hughett, P., Gur, R.C., Gur, R.E., & Ragland, J.D. (2005). Organization of semantic category exemplars in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 78, 209-217.

Herbener, E.S., Hill , S.K., & Sweeney, J.A. (in press). Treatment effects on emotion perception in first episode schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry .

Hill, S.K., Reilly, J.L., Harris, M.S.H., Pliskin , N.H. , Keshavan, M.S., & Sweeney, J.A. (in press). Oculomotor tasks show increased sensitivity to medication effects, relative to traditional neuropsychological measures, in first-episode schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology .