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Personable, with a self-deprecating humor, David Dodell-Feder<\/a> undertakes\u00a0research that belies his easy-going manner. A new assistant professor in the University\u2019s psychology department with a secondary appointment in neuroscience, he studies the processes\u00a0that underlie how humans navigate the social world and how those processes go awry in people with schizophrenia.<\/p>\n

Every human\u2019s physical and mental constitution demands social connection and social contact, but \u201clarge numbers of people don\u2019t have that social connection and therefore don\u2019t get to reap the benefits of having close social relationships,\u201d says Dodell-Feder. That\u2019s why people with schizophrenia have trouble forming, establishing, and maintaining healthy social relationships, romantic relationships, and relationships at work.<\/p>\n

Healthy interpersonal relationships matter<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As social animals, the extent of our social connection carries important consequences for our health and well-being, he notes. \u201cWhen engaged in healthy social contact and rewarding social relationships, we thrive; when socially isolated, we wither.\u201d Studies have shown that social isolation is associated with psychiatric illness, physical illness, and early mortality, making social disconnection a major public health concern.<\/p>\n

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Meet the faculty<\/h3>\n

Dodell-Feder is one of 30 new faculty members joing Arts, Sciences & Engineering<\/a> in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dodell-Feder is now trying to figure out why people with schizophrenia are experiencing these social difficulties. To that end, he focuses on one process in particular\u2014theory of mind\u2014by which humans attribute and reason about the mental states of others.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can look at your husband, for example, and perhaps know what emotion he\u2019s feeling, or know what he wants to have for dinner, or do on the weekend,\u201d he says. \u201cThese processes that we take for granted are actually really difficult for some groups of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this group of processes that seems to be disrupted in people with schizophrenia, affecting day-to-day social behavior. Dodell-Feder is working to establish how exactly the neural mechanisms are impaired\u2014a first step in designing any future interventions.<\/p>\n

His research involves neuroimaging, something that made the University with its Rochester Center for Brain Imaging (RCBI)<\/a> under the new leadership of John Foxe<\/a>, chair of the Department of Neuroscience, very attractive to him. And Dodell-Feder says he\u2019s looking forward to working closely with schizophrenia expert Steven Lamberti<\/a>, a professor of psychiatry at the Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Return to Rochester<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The new job at Rochester marks a return for Dodell-Feder. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t resist the prospect of six months of winter,\u201d the 32-year old jokes about Rochester\u2019s abrasive climate. But then he knew what he was getting himself into: he had left the University in 2008 with a BA in psychology and brain and cognitive sciences.<\/p>\n

In the intervening decade, Dodell-Feder picked up a PhD in clinical psychology from Harvard University<\/a>, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Technology in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital<\/a>\u00a0in Belmont, Massachusetts, before returning to the University of Rochester\u2019s\u00a0Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology\u00a0<\/a>with a secondary appointment in the Medical Center\u2019s Department of Neuroscience.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fortunate that my colleagues are some of the best psychologists in the country,\u201d he says. \u201cTo be able to work with them, and collaborate with them is just really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Queens, New York, native fondly remembers his favorite undergraduate class at the University\u2014a seminar in humanistic psychotherapy, taught by psychology professor (and self-determination theory co-founder) Edward Deci<\/a>. At his graduation ten years ago, Dodell-Feder had asked Deci for the honor to receive his diploma from his professor\u2019s hands. Deci was happy to oblige. Little did either man suspect that just a decade later his favorite prof would be voting enthusiastically to bring Dodell-Feder back as a colleague.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid was an excellent student when he was an undergraduate here,\u201d Deci says. \u201cI had a sense that he would go on to a successful career in psychology, but I had, of course, no idea he\u2019d end up here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another passion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

During his undergrad years in Rochester, Dodell-Feder followed his second passion\u2014music. He took saxophone lessons for credit at the Eastman School of Music. While an \u201cawesome\u201d experience, he felt somewhat bad for those professionals who taught him. \u201cI\u2019m shocked they let me do it,\u201d laughs Dodell-Feder. \u201cI loved playing but, objectively, I wasn\u2019t terribly good.\u201d Yet, undeterred, he formed a jam band with friends on campus, played one semester in a chamber ensemble group, and for several semesters in a sax quartet.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it was his love of saxophone playing that prompted the idea for his undergraduate honors thesis\u2014a study comparing visual attention skills in musicians to non-musicians, hypothesizing that musicians would score higher.<\/p>\n

A great idea, he was convinced. But things didn\u2019t quite go as planned. For starters, it was difficult to recruit enough musicians.<\/p>\n

His findings?<\/p>\n

Nothing. At least nothing interesting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sample size was just way too small to make any sort of conclusions or inferences from the data I collected, I\u2019m sorry to say,\u201d he grins.\u00a0Nevertheless, the experience whetted his appetite for academic inquiry.<\/p>\n

Does reading fiction make us better human beings?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Most recently, he\u2019s been looking at the effects of fiction reading on people\u2019s cognitive social skills, including the ability to feel empathy. Several studies have suggested that fiction reading serves as a way of priming humans\u2019 social skills, while others found no effect. Dodell-Feder\u2019s own meta-analysis of 14 studies confirmed that those people randomly assigned to read fiction performed better on a host of cognitive skills than those assigned to read non-fiction or nothing.<\/p>\n

Yet, while Dodell-Feder found a \u201crobust\u201d effect, he\u2019s the first to admit that overall it was \u201ctiny.\u201d So small, in fact, that it might be the \u201ctype of effect that a lot of researchers would disregard as not necessarily meaningful,\u201d he surmises. But for Dodell-Feder, who is looking to improve the social skills of people with schizophrenia with easily available, tolerable, and cost-effective treatments, a seed was planted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe finding is important and at the very least deserving of additional research,\u201d he says. The crux with the studies in his meta-analysis was that the test subjects had read fiction for a very short time, often just for five minutes. It\u2019s possible, he reasoned, that the short reading duration accounts for the very small effects.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why this summer, together with co-investigator Diana Tamir<\/a>, a psychologist at Princeton University, and supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\u00a0(NEA)<\/a>, he set out to study 300 healthy adults, randomly assigned to read fiction (or non-fiction) over the course of four weeks, hoping for a greater measurable impact on social cognition. Data collection has just begun and the results aren\u2019t in yet.<\/p>\n

Currently, he\u2019s looking for a community partner in Rochester to test a similar hypothesis in adolescents to see whether fiction reading positively affects social and emotional development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we really want to know is if fiction reading improves theory of mind and emotion processing, does this actually generalize to day-to-day social functioning and social behavior?\u201d he wonders. \u201cDoes it actually help someone improve the quality and quantity of their social relationships? Does it make it easier for someone to connect socially with others?\u201d<\/p>\n

Essentially the question boils down to this\u2014does fiction reading teach you better social skills for the real world?<\/p>\n

Helping him in his quest for answers is a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation\u2019s NARSAD Young Investigator award<\/a>\u00a0for $70,000, paid out over two years, awarded this fall. It\u2019s for a project that employs real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rtfMRI) to see if social dysfunction in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders can be improved through neurofeedback.<\/p>\n

But all research aside, what\u2019s Dodell-Feder going to do about the long winters? As an undergraduate, he says, it didn\u2019t bother him as much, having spent much of his time working deep in the windowless stacks at Rush Rhees Library. This winter, however, he vows to be active outside\u2014either snow shoeing, or trying out cross country skiing.<\/p>\n

A habit from his undergrad times that he won\u2019t repeat any time soon?<\/p>\n

\u201cDrink a Genny Light,\u201d he says, referring to the somewhat watery but inexpensive, locally-brewed lager, a perennial favorite with students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a few since I came back and it\u2019s just the way I remembered it,\u201d Dodell-Feder laughs. “Not good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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