FACULTY
 

Kent A. Kiehl

Associate Professor
Email: kkiehl@unm.edu
Office: Logan 108
Phone: 277-2384

Degree Received
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2000

Research Interests
Research in my laboratory focuses on the clinical neuroscience of major mental illnesses, with special focus on criminal psychopathy, substance abuse, and psychotic disorders (i.e. schizophrenia). In association with The MIND Institute we use non-invasive techniques for measuring brain function, including event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The goal of these studies is to elucidate and characterize the abnormal functional architecture believed to underlie these clinical disorders and to understand how psychological and/or pharmacological treatment modulates these neural processes. Ultimately, the goal of this research is to understand, diagnose, and effectively treat these clinical conditions.

My laboratory will be recruiting graduate students in clinical and cognitive psychology for 2007-08 who are interested in psychopathy.

List of Recent Publications
  • Kiehl, K.A., Hare, R.D., McDonald, J. J., & Brink, J. (1999). Semantic and affective processing in psychopaths: An event-related potential (ERP) study. Psychophysiology, 36, 765-774.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Hare, R.D., Liddle, P.F. & McDonald, J.J. (1999). Reduced P300 responses in criminal psychopaths during a visual oddball task. Biological Psychiatry, 45, 1498-1507.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Liddle, P.F., & Hopfinger, J.B. (2000). Error processing and the rostral anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI study. Psychophysiology, 37, 216-223.
  • Kiehl, K.A. Smith, A.M., Liddle, P.F., & Hare, R.D. (2000). An event-related potential investigation of response inhibition in schizophrenia and psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 48, 210-221.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Laurens, K.R., Duty, T.L., Forster, B.B., & Liddle, P.F. (2001). Neural sources involved in auditory target detection and novelty processing: An event-related fMRI study. Psychophysiology, 38, 133-142.
  • Kiehl, K.A. & Liddle, P.F. (2001). An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study of an auditory oddball task in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 48 (2-3), 159-171.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Smith, A.M., Hare, R.D., Forster, B.B., & Liddle, P.F. (2001). Limbic abnormalities in affective processing in criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Biological Psychiatry, 50, 677-684.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Laurens, K.R., Duty, T.L., Forster, B.B., & Liddle, P.F. (2001). An event-related fMRI study of visual and auditory oddball tasks. Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 221-240.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Laurens, K.R. & Liddle, P.F. (2002). Reading anomalous sentences: An event-related fMRI study of semantic processing. NeuroImage, 17, 842-850.
  • Kiehl, K.A. & Liddle, P.F. (2003). Reproducibility of the hemodynamic response to auditory oddball stimuli: A six week test-retest study. Human Brain Mapping, 18, 42-52.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Smith, A.M., Mendrek, A., Forster, B.B., Hare, R.D., & Liddle, P.F. (2004). Temporal lobe abnormalities in semantic processing by criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 130, 27-42.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Stevens, M. C., Laurens, K. R., Pearlson, G. P., Calhoun, V.D., & Liddle, P F. (2005). An adaptive reflexive processing model of neurocognitive function: Supporting evidence from a large scale (n=100) fMRI study of an auditory oddball task. NeuroImage, 25, 899-915.
  • Kiehl, K. A., Stevens, M. C., Celone, K., Kurtz, M. & Krystal, J.H. (2005). Abnormal hemodynamics in schizophrenia during an auditory oddball task. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1029-1040.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Bates, A. T., Laurens, K. R. & Liddle, P F. (2006). Psychopathy and semantic processing: An examination of the N400. Personality and Individual Differences, 40, 293-304.
  • Calhoun, V.D., Adali, T., Giuliani, N.R., Pekar, J.J., Kiehl, K.A., & Pearlson, G.D. (2006). Method for multimodal analysis of independent source differences in schizophrenia: Combining gray matter structural and auditory oddball functional data. Human Brain Mapping 27, 47-62.
  • Calhoun, V.D., Pearlson, G.D., & Kiehl, K.A. (2006). Neuronal chronometry of target detection: Fusion of hemodynamic and event-related potential data. Neuroimage, 30, 544-553.
  • Kiehl, K.A. (2006). A cognitive neuroscience perspective on psychopathy: Evidence for paralimbic system dysfunction. Psychiatry Research, 142, 107-128.
  • Stevens, M. C., Laurens, K. R., Liddle, P F. & Kiehl, K. A. (2006). The hemodynamics of oddball processing during single-tone and two-tone target detection tasks. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 60, 292-303.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Bates, A.T., Laurens, K. R. Hare, R.D., & Liddle, P F. (2006). Brain potentials implicate temporal lobe abnormalities in criminal psychopaths. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115 (3), 443-453.
  • Calhoun, V.D., Adali, T, Kiehl, K.A., Astur, R., Pekar, J.J. & Pearlson, G.D. (2006). A method for multi-task data fusion applied to schizophrenia. Human Brain Mapping, 27, 47-62.
  • Most, S.B., Chun, M.M., Johnson, M.R. & Kiehl, K.A. (2006). Attentional modulation of the amygdala varies with personality. Neuroimage, 31, 934-44.
  • Liddle, P.F., Laurens, K.R., & Kiehl, K.A., Ngan, E.T.C. (2006). Abnormal function of the brain system supporting motivated attention in medicated patients with schizophrenia: An fMRI study. Psychological Medicine, 36, 1097-1108.