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Matthew Phillips PsyD

Matthew Phillips
Designation
  • Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Gender Pronouns
  • he/him
  • mphill8 [at] uic.edu
  • (312) 996-6217
  • Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI)
    912 S. Wood St.
    Department of Psychiatry (MC 913)
    Chicago IL 60612
Assistant
  • Marisela Villarreal
  • (312) 996-6217
  • mvil [at] uic.edu

Dr. Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Phillips earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology and criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), his master’s degrees in counseling (health psychology) and clinical psychology from The Chicago School, and Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) from the Chicago School. He completed his 1-year Clinical Psychology Internship at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center and 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at UI Health/UIC College of Medicine. 

Dr. Phillips’ clinical interests include pre- and post-surgical neuropsychological evaluation of patients undergoing neurosurgical intervention (i.e., epilepsy, Deep Brain Stimulation, revascularization), epilepsy, movement disorders, complex neurological/medical disorders, cerebrovascular disease, and adult ADHD. 

Particular areas of research include performance validity testing in neuropsychology, better understanding the relationship between subjective cognitive concerns and objective neuropsychological outcomes, and the neuropsychological sequelae of adult ADHD.

  • Doctoral
    Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship: Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, North Chicago, IL
  • Graduate School
    Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL M.A., Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL M.A., Counseling Psychology, Health Psychology Emphasis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL
  • Undergraduate
    B.A., Sociology, minor in Criminal Justice, University of Illinois – Chicago, Chicago, IL
    • Neuropsychological Assessment
    • Neurosurgery
    • Epilepsy
    • Movement Disorders
    • Cerebrovascular Disorders
    • Mild Cognitive Impairment/Dementia
    • Adult ADHD
    • Performance Validity Testing
    • Clinical Neuropsychology Training/Teaching
  • Kent, G. W., Finley, J. A., Shoemaker, B., Piszczor, J., Kukla, T. J., Abalos, S. A., Phillips, M. S., McConnell, J. M., Cerny, B. M., Song, W., Jennette, K. J., Pliskin, N. H., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Further validation of symptom validity cutoffs in the beck anxiety inventory and beck depression inventory: findings within a large clinical sample. Psychological Injury and Law. Advanced online publication.

    Marder, M. A., Kent, G. W., Abalos, S. A., Springer, J. G., Kukla, T. J., Sharp, D. W., Cerny, B. M., Phillips, M. S., Webber, T. A., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Dispersion and inconsistency based intraindividual variability in neuropsychological test performance accurately identify performance invalidity among adults referred for ADHD evaluation. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. Advanced online publication.

    Yang, J., Keszycki, R., Boulais, B. M., Scimeca, L. M., Orleans, N. A., Ulrich, D. M., Ovsiew, G. P., Cerny, B. M., Robinson, A. D., Soble, J. R., & Phillips, M. S. (2025). The impact of comorbid psychopathology on learning and memory among adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Psychology & Neuroscience. Advanced online publication.

    Kukla, T. J., Finely, J.-C., A., Kent, G. W., Newkirk, B. O., Payne, A. D., Fegter, O., Abalos, S. A., Petry, L. G., Phillips, M. S., Cerny, B. M., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Failing more freestanding performance validity test results in progressive artificial lowering of invalid neuropsychological test scores. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. Advanced online publication.

    Phillips, M.S., Kent, G. W., Ismail, H., Piszczor, J., Galindo, B. N., Shapiro, G., Gonzalez, L., Cerny, B. M., & Soble, J. R. (in press). Relationship between subjective cognitive concerns and objective neurocognitive performance in primary medical versus primary psychiatric populations. Psychological Medicine.

    Kent, G., K., Finley, J-C. A., Leese, M. I., Kukla, T. J., Ismail, H., Cerny, B. M., Soble, J. R., & Phillips, M. S. (2025). Preferential impact of processing speed and memory on rey auditory verbal learning test and brief visuospatial memory test-revised embedded performance validity tests. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. Advanced online publication.

    Tufty, L. M. Wenzel, B. G., Orleans, N. A., Sullivan, R. M., Scimeca, L. M., Ovsiew, G. P., Cerny, B. M., Ulrich, D. M., Phillips, M. S., Robinson, A. D., Meinzer, M. C., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Investigating the effect of comorbid internalizing psychopathology on performance invalidity rates in neuropsychological evaluations of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Psychological Injury and Law. Advanced online publication.

    Soble, J. R., Finley, J. A., Phillips, M. S., Abalos, S. A., Sharp, D. W., Jennette, K. J., & Pliskin, N. H. (2025). Using depression and anxiety inventory cutoffs to screen for psychiatric symptom overreporting. Journal of Psychiatric Practice. Advanced online publication.

    Finley, J. A., Phillips, M. S., Soble, J. R., & Rodriguez, V. J. (2025). Detecting feigned symptomatology in adults with ADHD using machine learning. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. Advanced online publication.

    Phillips, M. S., Leese, M. I., Abalos, S. A., Shapiro, G., Bare, K., Orleans, N., Durkin, N. M., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Are there race-based differences in neuropsychological test performance and psychological symptom endorsement among adult ADHD clinic referrals? Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.prcp.20240151

    Leese, M. I., Finley, J. C. A., Basurto, K. S., VanLandingham, H. B., Piszczor, J., Bianco. J. M., Phillips, M. S., Cerny, B. M., Schroeder, R. W., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Analysis of skew, examination of intercorrelations, and determining the optimal threshold for performance invalidity when 10 performance validity tests are administered during a neuropsychological evaluation. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 46(10), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2025.2455074

    Heywood, A., Cichocki, A. C., Numerick, J. D., Dykins, M. M., Roth, G. E., Ulrich, D. M., Phillips, M. S., Cerny, B. M., Ovsiew, G., P., Robinson, A. D., Soble, J. R., Song, W., Pliskin, N. H., & Jennette, K. J. (2025). Trail Making Test – Part B discontinuation is associated with worse performance across multiple cognitive domains, but not with psychological distress. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 47(2), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2025.2464642

    Cerny, B. M., Leib, S. I., Robinson, A. D., Ulrich, D. M., Phillips, M. S., Lee. E., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Neurocognitive phenotypes among adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A latent profile analysis. Neuropsychology, 39(2), 187-199. doi: 10.1037/neu0000991

    Finley, J. A., Robinson, A. D., Cerny, B. M., Ovsiew, G. P., Pliskin, N. H., Calamia, M., Ulrich, D. M., Phillips, M. S., & Soble, J. R. (2025). Examining the utility of the BAARS-IV scales as embedded symptom validity indicators for adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder evaluations. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 46(10), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2025.2458547

    Phillips, M. S., Turchmanovych-Hienkel, N., Leese, M., Ramanauskas, B., VanLandingham, H. B., Ovsiew, G. P., Robinson, A. D., Ulrich, D. M., & Soble, J. R. (2025). The relationship between subjective cognitive complaints, invalid symptom reporting, and neurocognitive test performance validity among adults being evaluated for ADHD. Journal of Psychiatric Practice.

    Finley, J. A., Tufty, L. M., Abalos, S., Keszycki, R., Woloszyn, M., Shapiro, G., Cerny, B. M., Ulrich, D. M., Phillips, M. S., & Soble, J. R. (2024). Identifying factors that increase false-positive rates on embedded performance validity testing in ADHD evaluations. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acae099

    Ramanauskas, B., Nixon, T. M., Finley, J. A., VanLandingham, H. B., Leese, M., Ulrich, D. M., Ovsiew, G. P., Cerny, B. M., Phillips, M. S., Soble, J. R., & Robinson, A. D. (2024). Analyzing the effect of processing speed impairment on the Rey-15 Item test’s accuracy as a performance validity measure. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2024.2420376

    Finley, J. A., Robinson, A. D., VanLandingham, H. B., Ulrich, D. M., Phillips, M. S., & Soble, J. R. (2024). Internalizing and somatic symptoms influence the discrepancy between subjective and objective cognitive difficulties in adults with ADHD who have valid and invalid test scores. Journal of the International Neuropsychology Society, 1-10. doi: 10.1017/S1355617724000365

    Robinson, A. D., Finley, J. C., Phillips, M. S., Ulrich, D. M., Cerny, B. M., Ovsiew, G. P., Pliskin, N. H., & Soble, J. R. (2024). Examining concordance between the CAT-A and the BAARS-IV in a sample of adults referred for ADHD. Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment.

    Phillips, M. S., Wisinger, A. M., Cerny, B. M., Khan, H., Chang, F., Tse, P. K. Y., Ovsiew, G. P., Shapiro, G., Resch, Z. J., Soble, J. R., & Jennette, K. J. (2024). Effect of processing speed and memory performance on classification accuracy of the dot counting test in a mixed neuropsychiatric sample. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2024.2363978

    Bing-Canar, H., Khan, H., Stocks, J. K., Rauch, A., Obolsky, M., Lapitan-Moore, F., Phillips, M. S., Soble, J. R., Resch, Z. J. (2024). Adverse childhood experiences, cognitive functioning, depression, and anxiety in adulthood. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. doi: 10.1037/tra0001637

    Al Ali, J., Yang, J., Phillips, M. S., Fink, J. W., Mastrianni, J., & Seibert, K. (2023). A case report of a patient with primary familial brain calcification with a PDGFRB genetic variant. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1235909

    Skymba, H. V., Shields, A. N., Rauch, A. A., Phillips, M. S., Bing-Canar, B., Finley, J. A., Khan, H., Ovsiew, G. P., Durkin, N. M., Jennette, K.J., Resch, Z. J., & Soble, J. R. (2023). Does comorbid depression impact executive functioning (EF) in adults with ADHD?: A comparison of EF across diagnoses in clinically-referred individuals. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2023.2203464

    Phillips, M. S., Bing-Canar, H., Shields, A. N., Cerny, B., Chang, F., Wisinger, A. M., Leib, S. I., Ovsiew, G. P., Resch, Z. J., Jennette, K. J., & Soble, J. R. (2023). Assessment of learning and memory impairments in adults with predominantly inattentive versus combined presentation attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2023.2169887

    Chang, F., Cerny, B. M., Tse, P. K. Y., Rauch, A., Khan, H., Phillips, M. S., Fletcher, N., Resch, Z. J., Ovsiew, G. P., Jennette, K. J., Soble, J. R. (2023). Using the grooved pegboard test as an embedded validity indicator in a mixed neuropsychiatric sample with varying cognitive impairment: Cross-validation problems. Perceptual and Motor Skills. doi: 10.1177/00315125231151779

    Soble, J. R., Cerny, B. M., Rhoads, T., DeBoer, A. B., Sharp, D. W., Ovsiew, G. P., Phillips, M. S., Pesanti, S., Jennette, K. J., & Resch, Z. J. (2022). Do demographic factors influence detection of invalid neuropsychological test performance using common performance validity tests? A multisite investigation. Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1037/neu0000880

    Cerny, B. M., Reynolds, T., Chang, F., Scimeca, L., Phillips, M. S., Ogram Buckley, C., Leib, S. I., Resch, Z. J., Pliskin, N. H., & Soble, J. R. (2022). Cognitive performance and psychiatric self-reports across adult cognitive disengagement syndrome and ADHD diagnostic groups. Journal of Attention Disorders. doi: 10.1177/10870547221136216

    DeBoer, A. B., Phillips, M. S., Barwegen, K. C., Obolsky, M. A., Rauch, A. A., Pesanti, S. D., Jennette, K. J., Resch, Z. J., & Soble, J. R. (2022). Comprehensive analysis of MMPI-2-RF symptom validity scales and performance validity test relationships in a diverse mixed neuropsychiatric setting. Psychological Injury and Law. doi: 10.1007/s12207-022-09467-9

    Bing-Canar, H., Phillips, M. S., Shields, A., Ogram Buckley, C., Chang, F., Khan, H., Skymba, H., Soble, J. R. (2022). Cross-Validation of multiple WAIS-IV digit span embedded performance validity indices among a large sample of adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder clinical referrals. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. doi: 10.1177/07342829221081921

    Phillips, M. S., Wisinger, A. M., Lapitan-Moore, F. T., Ausloos, J. E., Bing-Canar, H., Durkin, N. M., Ovsiew, G. P., Resch, Z. J., Jennette, K. J., & Soble, J. R. (2022). Cross-validation of multiple embedded performance validity indices in the rey auditory verbal learning test and brief visuospatial memory test-revised in an adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder clinical sample. Psychological Injury and Law. doi: 10.1007/s12207-022-09443-3