Alfredo L Sklar, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

  • Psychosis
  • Basic & Translational Neuroscience
Alfredo L Sklar, MD, PhD
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Expertise & Interests

Research Interests

Early stage psychosis; Sensory-perceptual processing in the visual system

Clinical Interests

Schizophrenia

Selected Publications

  1. Sklar AL, Blazer A, Snover W, Lopez-Caballero F, Curtis M, Coffman BA, Hetherington HH, Moon C-H, Salisbury DF & Sarpal DK. (2025), A Synergistic Examination of Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance in First-Episode Schizophrenia Merging 7-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging and Magnetoencephalography. Brain Behav, 15: e70735.
  2. Sklar AL, Matinrazm S, Esseku A, Lopez-Caballero F, Curtis M, Coffman BA & Salisbury DF. (2024). Longitudinal evaluation of the early auditory gamma-band response and its modulation by attention in first-episode psychosis. Psychological Medicine, 1-9.
  3. Sklar AL, Yeh FC, Curtis M, Seebold D, Coffman BA & Salisbury DF. (2024). Functional and structural connectivity correlates of semantic verbal fluency deficits in first-episode psychosis. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 169, 73-80.
  4. Sklar AL, Ren X, Chlpka L, Curtis M, Coffman BA & Salisbury DF. (2023). Longitudinal progression of auditory dynamic range deficits in early psychosis and its relationship to negative symptoms. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 49(6), 1508-1517.
  5. Sklar AL, Coffman BA & Salisbury DF. (2020). Localization of early-stage visual processing deficits at schizophrenia spectrum illness onset using magnetoencephalography. Schizophrenia bulletin, 46(4), 955-963.

Education & Credentials

Education & Training

Education
MD, University of Florida, College of Medicine
Education
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Florida, College of Medicine
Residency
Adult Psychiatry, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Postdoctoral
Training in Transformative Discovery in Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Selected Honors & Awards

  • Early Career Academic Excellence Award, Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society
  • Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
  • Danny Hurley Schizophrenia Research Award, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Young Investigator Award, EEG & Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS)

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