Improving Outcomes in Psychosis: Cognition, Olfaction, Reward, and Partnerships

Dr. Mesholam-Gately’s research is broadly focused on characterizing and/or intervening in neurocognitive, olfactory, and reward-related deficiencies in psychotic disorders, including through partnerships with individuals who have lived experience with serious mental health conditions. This work includes neurocognitive functioning over the illness course, olfaction and brain reward system linkages, and improvement of cognitive remediation efforts. She also directs Psychological Services for the Advancing Services for Psychosis Integration and Recovery (ASPIRE) Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).  Through the Psychosis Research Program at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center Public Psychiatry Division of BIDMC, she has directed Neuropsychology Research and the Peer Advisory, Advocacy & Research Council (PAARC) who she has felt privileged to be partnering with in participatory mental health research.