Expertise

Clinical Psychology, Statistics, Meditation, Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Neuropsychology, Neuromodulation, Cognitive Training, Psychosis

Biography

Dr. Mervis' career spans both arts and sciences. He earned a BA in Theater with honors, produced and directed plays and musicals, and worked in artist management for Broadway, television, and film. Transitioning to clinical psychology, he completed a postbaccalaureate certificate at Columbia University.

Dr. Mervis earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota, studying under Angus W. MacDonald, III, PhD, with a focus on translating clinical cognitive neuroscience into practice through neuromodulation and cognitive training. His clinical internship at the Indianapolis VA Medical Center, supervised by Dr. Paul Lysaker, PhD, where he studied metacognition and trained in psychotherapy for veterans with psychosis. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Temple University with Dr. Lauren Ellman, researching psychosis risk syndromes. 

In addition teaching and research, Dr. Mervis' clinical interests include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy, and Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy. 

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

• Wannan, C. M. J., Nelson, B., Addington, J., Allott, K., Anticevic, A., Arango, C., Baker, J. T., Bearden, C. E., Billah, T., Bouix, S., Broome, M. R., Buccilli, K., Cadenhead, K. S., Calkins, M. E., Cannon, T. D., Cecci, G., Chen, E. Y. H., Cho, K. I. K., Choi, J., … Mervis, J., … Shenton, M. E. (2024). Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ): Rationale and Study Design of the Largest Global Prospective Cohort Study of Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, sbae011. Doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbae011
• Wolny, J., Moussa-Tooks, A.B., Bailey, A.J., MacDonald, A.W., Mervis, J.E., Hetrick, W.P. (2024). Measurement Invariance of the Revised-Green Paranoid Thought Scale Across Black and White Americans.Schizophrenia Research. 226, 227-233. Doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.02.024
• Mervis, J.E., Vohs, J.L, & Lysaker, P.H. (2022). An Update on Clinical Insight, Cognitive Insight, and Introspective Accuracy in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: Symptoms, Cognition, and Treatment. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. 22, 3, 245-255. Doi: 10.1080/14737175.2022.2049757
• Mervis, J.E., Bonfils, K.A., Cooper, S.E., Weisepape, C., & Lysaker, P.H. (2021). Co-occurring deficits in clinical and cognition insight in prolonged schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: relationship to metacognitive deficits. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. 2, 1, sgab034. Doi: 10.1093/schizbullopen/sgab034
• Mervis, J.E., Fischer, J., Cooper, S.E., Deckert, A.C., Lysaker, P.H., MacDonald, A.W., Meyer-Kalos, P. (2021). Introspective accuracy for substance use across a year of treatment for first episode psychosis. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 26. Doi: 10.1016/j.scog.2021.100200
• Mervis, J.E., Xuan, L., & MacDonald, A.W. (2020). Strengthening Cognitive Training and Neuromodulation Studies with Blinded Designs. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health. Doi: 10.4135/9781529733297
• Mervis, J.E., Capizzi, R.*, Boroda, E., & MacDonald, A.W. (2017). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Psychosis: A Quantitative Review of Cognitive Outcomes.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11:44. Doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00044
• Mervis, J.E., Fiszdon, J.M., Lysaker, P.H., Nienow, T.M., Mathews, L., Wardwell, P., Petrik, T., Thime, W., & Choi., J. (2017). Effects of the Indianapolis Vocational Intervention Program (IVIP) on Defeatist Beliefs, Work Motivation, and Work Outcomes in Serious Mental Illness. Schizophrenia Research. 182, 129-134. Doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.10.036
• Mervis, J.E., Lysaker, P.H., Fiszdon, J.M., Bell, M.D., Chue, A.E., Pauls, C., Bisoglio, J., & Choi, J. (2016). Addressing defeatist beliefs in work rehabilitation. Journal of Mental Health. 1-6. Doi: 10.3109/09638237.2016.1139069
• Bisoglio J, Michaels T.I., Mervis J.E., & Ashinoff B.K. (2014). Cognitive Enhancement Through Action Video Game Training: Great Expectations Require Greater Evidence. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition. 5:136. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00136
• Mervis, J.E. (2020). A Study Guide to Accompany Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son by Mindy Greiling. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Akhutina, T.V., Melikyan, Z.A., Mikadze, Y.V., Mervis, J.E., & Bisoglio, J., Goldberg, E. (2016). History of Neuropsychology in Russia. In W.B. Barr & L. Bieliauskas (Eds). Oxford Handbook on the History of Clinical Neuropsychology. New York: Oxford University Press. Doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199765683.013.10
• Michaels, T., Mervis, J., Gontkovsky, S., & Goldberg, E. (2014). Understanding dementia and its causes. In S. Gontkovsky (Ed.), The Cognitive Therapeutics Method: Non-pharmacological approaches to slowing the cognitive and functional decline associated with dementia. Palo Alto, CA: Home Care Press.

Courses Taught

• PSY 3620: Mindfulness and Meditation in Psychology
• PSY 3096: Conducting Psychological Research
• PSY 2502: Cognitive Neuroscience
• PSY 1003: Statistics for Psychology