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Tanya Tran, Ph.D.

Tanya Tran, Ph.D.

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Strong Ties Call Center (585) 279-4900

About Me

Dr. Tran (she/her) is primarily situated at the INTERCEPT clinic, a clinical high risk for psychosis service affiliated with the Strong Memorial Hospital. At this clinic, she is involved in program development, assessment, treatment, research, and supervision of psychology trainees.
Dr. Tran (she/her) is primarily situated at the INTERCEPT clinic, a clinical high risk for psychosis service affiliated with the Strong Memorial Hospital. At this clinic, she is involved in program development, assessment, treatment, research, and supervision of psychology trainees.

Faculty Appointments

Senior Instructor - Department of Psychiatry, Research (SMD)

Research

Dr. Tran received her Ph.D. (2022) in clinical psychology from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). Her clinical and research training at Queen’s specialized in the assessment and treatment of adults with severe mental illness. Her graduate research focused on understanding the mechanisms underlyi...
Dr. Tran received her Ph.D. (2022) in clinical psychology from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). Her clinical and research training at Queen’s specialized in the assessment and treatment of adults with severe mental illness. Her graduate research focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying motivation and pleasure dysfunctions of psychotic and mood disorders. She developed performance-based and self-report measures of “cognitive effort motivation”, an important functional correlate in severe mental illness. Her work in this area was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Joseph Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), and the Canadian Psychological Association Certificate of Academic Excellence. During her post-doctoral fellowship at URMC, her research focused on characterizing biopsychosocial risk factors for psychosis and program development for the mental health needs of psychosis vulnerable youth. Currently, her research aims to evaluate biobehavioral changes in response to a group therapy she developed to target impaired motivation and functioning in youth with psychosis. This research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Publications

Journal Articles

Functional correlates of atypical visuoperceptual organization in a multisite clinical high-risk sample.

Pokorny V, Tran T, Williams TF, Kenney J, Silverstein SM, Gold JM, Waltz JA, Schiffman J, Ellman LM, Strauss GP, Walker EF, Woods SW, Powers AR, Corlett PR, Mittal VA

Journal of psychopathology and clinical science.. 2025 July 134 (5):527-539. Epub 04/07/2025.

Increased face perception in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis: mechanisms, sex differences, and clinical correlates.

Tran T, Keane BP, Thompson JL, Robinson B, Kenney J, Williams TF, Waltz JA, Levin JA, Kafadar E, Gold JM, Schiffman J, Ellman LM, Walker EF, Strauss GP, Mittal VA, Zinbarg RE, Corlett PR, Powers AR, Woods SW, Silverstein SM

Schizophrenia.. 2025 May 1211 (1):74. Epub 05/12/2025.

Identifying individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis using a battery of tasks sensitive to symptom mechanisms.

Williams T, Gold J, Waltz J, Schiffman J, Ellman L, Strauss GP, Walker E, Woods SW, Powers A, Kenney J, Pappu M, Corlett P, Tran T, Silverstein S, Zinbarg R, Mittal V

Research square.. 2025 May 8 Epub 05/08/2025.

Approach and withdrawal from cognitively effortful activities: Development, validation, and transdiagnostic clinical utility of a cognitive motivation scale.

Tran T, Hillman JG, Hargadon DP, Cunningham S, Toubache R, Bowie CR

Journal of affective disorders.. 2024 December 15367 :823-831. Epub 09/03/2024.

Neurocognition and Depressive Symptoms have Unique Pathways to Predicting Different Domains of Functioning in Major Depressive Disorder.

Wood-Ross C, Tran T, Milanovic M, Jokic R, Milev R, Bowie CR

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie.. 2023 April 68 (4):241-248. Epub 11/21/2022.

Negative Symptom Trajectories in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Differences Based on Deficit Syndrome, Persistence, and Transition Status.

Tran T, Spilka MJ, Raugh IM, Strauss GP, Bearden CE, Cadenhead KS, Cannon TD, Cornblatt BA, Keshavan M, Mathalon DH, McGlashan TH, Perkins DO, Seidman LJ, Stone WS, Tsuang MT, Walker EF, Woods SW, Addington JM

Schizophrenia bulletin open.. 2023 January 4 (1):sgad014. Epub 06/01/2023.

Implicit cognitive effort monitoring impairments are associated with expressive negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

Tran T, Spilka MJ, Ruiz I, Strauss GP

Schizophrenia research.. 2022 October 248 :14-20. Epub 07/27/2022.

Letter to the Editor: Social media and internet use is associated with both adaptive and maladaptive changes in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.

Tran T, Holland AH, Zhang L, Raugh IM, Strauss GP

Journal of psychiatric research.. 2022 March 147 :1-3. Epub 12/24/2021.

What is normal cognition in depression? Prevalence and functional correlates of normative versus idiographic cognitive impairment.

Tran T, Milanovic M, Holshausen K, Bowie CR

Neuropsychology.. 2021 January 35 (1):33-41. Epub 1900 01 01.

Motivation and engagement during cognitive training for schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

Best MW, Milanovic M, Tran T, Leung P, Jackowich R, Gauvin S, Leibovitz T, Bowie CR

Schizophrenia research. Cognition.. 2020 March 19 :100151. Epub 05/23/2019.

The THINC-it Tool for Cognitive Assessment and Measurement in Major Depressive Disorder: Sensitivity to Change.

McIntyre RS, Subramaniapillai M, Park C, Zuckerman H, Cao B, Lee Y, Iacobucci M, Nasri F, Fus D, Bowie CR, Tran T, Rosenblat JD, Mansur RB

Frontiers in psychiatry.. 2020 11 :546. Epub 06/24/2020.

Brief executive function training for individuals with severe mental illness: Effects on EEG synchronization and executive functioning.

Best MW, Gale D, Tran T, Haque MK, Bowie CR

Schizophrenia research.. 2019 January 203 :32-40. Epub 09/19/2017.

Disengagement from tasks as a function of cognitive load and depressive symptom severity.

Bowie CR, Milanovic M, Tran T, Cassidy S

Cognitive neuropsychiatry.. 2017 January 22 (1):83-94. Epub 12/20/2016.

Attitudes of Canadian psychiatry residents if mentally ill: awareness, barriers to disclosure, and help-seeking preferences.

Hassan T, Tran T, Doan N, Mazhar M, Bajaj N, Munshi T, Galbraith N, Groll D

Canadian medical education journal.. 2016 October 7 (2):e14-e24. Epub 10/18/2016.

Canadian Physicians' Attitudes towards Accessing Mental Health Resources.

Hassan TM, Asmer MS, Mazhar N, Munshi T, Tran T, Groll DL

Psychiatry journal.. 2016 2016 :9850473. Epub 04/10/2016.