R E S E A R C H
I have extensive research experience that ties into my clinical work and informs my clinical practice.
My research has broadly focused on affective processing (emotion regulation and emotional awareness), cigarette smoking and substance use, and suicide prevention in individuals with severe mental illness.
Most recently, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention at Canandaigua VA Medical Center and the University of Rochester.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Baker, S., Messer, S. J., Girgis, R. R. & Horga, G. (2024). Prior Overweighting Relates to Delusional Ideation in Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 266, 153-155.
Kimhy, D., Ospina, L., Messer, S. J., Sharma, V., Datta, S. S., & Stroup, S. (2024). Psychosocial telemedicine interventions for schizophrenia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 2, Art. No.: CD015260
Levin, J. Estey, D., Yadgaran, E., Perez, E., Plotnik, I., Gittleman, J., Agterberg, S., Messer, S., Friedman, J., Birchwale, J., Lee, J., Cruz, L, Gordon, N.A., Kashan, R.S., Min, J.-Y., Levin, J., Cohen, J., Pia, T., Eichenbaum, M., Segal, K.S., & Weinberger, A.H. (2024). Cigarette Smoking and Psychiatric Illness Among Individuals with COPD: a Systematic Review. Curr Addict Rep 11, 19–54.
Yazdan, R., Corey, K., Messer, S. J., Kim, E. H., Roberts, K. E., Selwyn, P. A., & Weinberger, A. H. (2023). Hospital-based interventions to address provider grief: A narrative review. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 66 (1), E85-E107.
Kam, K., Ospina, L., Fagan, S., Beck-Felts, K., Messer, S., Valenica, D., Balbuena, M., Aybar, V., Mullins, A., Parekh, A., Rapoport, D., Ayappa, I., Varga, A., & Kimhy, D. (2023). 0055 Effect of acute sleep restriction on sleep physiology and emotional imagery memory in schizophrenia. Sleep, 46 (A26).
Ospina, L., Beck-Felts, K., Ifrah, C., Lister, A., Messer, S., Russo, S. J., Gross, J. G., & Kimhy, D. (2022). Inflammation and Emotion Regulation: Findings from the MIDUS II Study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 100536
Messer, S., Siegel, A., Bertin, L., & Erblich, J. (2018). Gender differences in affect-triggered lapses during smoking cessation: A daily diary study. Addictive Behaviors, (87) 82-85.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Messer, S. J., Pia, T., Mehdizadeh, T., Cuddleston, K., Kim, E., & Weinberger, A.H. (2024). Cannabis perspective across the life span: childhood and adolescence, adult age, and the elderly. Chapter to be published in “The Other Side of Cannabis” (Editors: M.R. Balon & M. Morreale). American Psychiatric Association Publishing
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Messer, S. J., Kimhy, D., Weinberger, A. H. “Cigarette Smoking and Emotion Processing Among Individuals with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 22, 2024.