Amir M. Poreh, Ph.D., ABAP
Diplomat, American Board of Assessment Psychology

Education
  1991               Doctor of Philosophy (APA Accredited)
                            Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan  
                           Major: Clinical Psychology                                    
  1988               Master of Art                                    
                           Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
                          Major: Clinical Psychology


Additional Training, Licensure and Certifications 
 2010                                       Doctoral Site Visitor Workshop,
                                                   American Psychological Association.
2007                                       Diplomat, American Board of Assessment Psychology
                                                   (neuropsychology subspecialty).  
1996                                        Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure (Wada) Training
                                                   Department of Neurology, Hospital for Joint Diseases and NYU School of Medicine.
  1992                                       Postdoctoral Neuropsychology Residency (APPCN accredited)
                                                   Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California Los Angeles
                                                  (NPI-UCLA). (Paul Satz, Supervisor).
 1989-1990                           Pre-doctoral APA accredited, Residency with Neuropsychology
                                                   Emphasis. Ann-Arbor and Allen Park Veteran Administration Hospitals Detroit, Michigan. 
 
Current Academic Appointments
 2007 -  present           Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Psychology,
                                      Cleveland State University
 2007 - present            Clinical Assistant Professor, Case School of Medicine                 
                                       Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Medical Center.


 

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Poreh, A. (2006). Book Editor: The Quantified Process Approach. Studies on Neuropsychology, Neurology and Cognition. L. Bieliauskas (Series Ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis Group, Psychological Press.

Refereed Articles

1.         Poreh, A., Pastel , D., Miller, A.  & Levin, J.  (In press). The Cleveland Sorting Test – A Preliminary Study of an Alternate Form of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. Journal of Applied Neuropsychology.

2.         Iancu, I, Poreh, A., Kotler, M., Rael, S., Ram, E. (2010). Comparison of admission and inpatient services utilization between Jewish and Arab Israeli patients. Conexiuni Medicale, 2 (18), 12-23.

3.         Iancu, I., Bodner, E., Roitman, S, Piccone S.A.,  Poreh, A, Kotler, M. (2010). Impulsivity, Aggression and Suicide Risk among Male Schizophrenia Patients. Psychopathology, 43 (4), 223-229.

4.          Iancu, I., Tchernihovsky E., Maayan, R., Poreh, A., Dannon, P., Kotler, M., Weizman, A., Strous, R. (2007). Circulatory neurosteroid levels in smoking and non-smoking chronic schizophrenia patients. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 17(8), 541-545.

5.          Gilboa  A.,Winocur, G., Rosenbaum, R.S., Poreh, A., Gao, F., Black, S.E., Westmacott, R., Moscovitch, M. (2006). Hippocampal contributions to recollection in retrograde and anterograde amnesia. Hippocampus ,16, 966 – 980.

6.           Poreh, A., Winocur, G., Moscovitch. M., Backon, M., Goshen, E., Ram, Z., & Feldman, Z. (2006). Anterograde and retrograde amnesia in a person with bilateral fornix lesions following removal of a colloid cyst. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2241-2248.

7.           Poreh, A., Rawlings, D., Claridge, G., Freeman, J.L., Faulkner, C., & Shelton, C. (2006). The BPQ: A Scale for the Assessment of Borderline Personality based on DSM-IV Criteria. Journal of Personality Disorders, 20, 247-260. 

8.           Iancu, I., Sapir, A., Shaked, G., Poreh,A., Dannon, P., Chelben J. & Kotler, M. (2006).  Increased suicidal risk among smoking schizophrenia patients. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 29, 230-237.

9.           Iancu, I., Levin, J., Hermesh, H., Dannon, P., Poreh, A., Ben Yehoda, Y., Kotler, M. (2006). Prevalence of self-reported specific phobia symptoms in an Israeli sample of

young conscripts. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 21, 762-769

10.       Iancu, I., Levin, J., Hermesh, H., Dannon, P., Poreh, A., Ben-Yehuda, Y., Kaplan, Z., Marom, S., & Kotler, M. (2006). Social phobia symptoms: Prevalence, social demographic correlates and overlap with specific phobia symptoms. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 47, 399-405.

11.       Iancu, I., Poreh, A., Lehman, B., Shamir, E., & Kotler, M. (2005). The Positive and Negative Symptoms Questionnaire: A self-report scale in schizophrenia. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 46, 61-66.

12.        Iancu, I., Strous, R., Poreh, A., Kotler, M., & Chelben, Y.  (2005). Psychiatric inpatients' reactions to the SARS epidemic: An Israeli survey. Israeli Journal of Psychiatry & Related Sciences, 42, 258-262.

13.       Poreh, A. (2005). Daubert criteria and their effect on the practice of psychological assessment in Israel. The Society of Medicine and Law in Israel, 32, 111-116 (in Hebrew).

14.        Poreh, A. (2005). Analysis of mean learning of normal participants on the Rey Auditory- Verbal Learning Test. Psychological Assessment, 17, 191-199.

15.        Tanne, D., Freimark, D., Poreh, A., Merzeliak, O., Bruck, B., Schwammenthal, Y., Schwammenthal, E., Motro, M., & Adler, Y. (2005). Cognitive functions in severe congestive heart failure before and after an exercise training program. International Journal of Cardiology, 103, 145-149.

16.       Poreh, A. (2002). Neuropsychological Testing in the 21st Century. Editor of Special Issue. CNS Spectrums - The International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine, 7, 340.

17.       Poreh, A. & Schweiger, A. (2002). The effects of second language acquisition on verbal fluency among elderly Israelis. CNS Spectrums - International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine, 7, 377-386.

18.       Iancu, L., Dannon, P., Poreh, A., Lepkifker, E., & Grunhaus, L. (2001). Alexthymia and suicidality in panic disorder. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 42,477-481.

19.       Poreh, A. (2000). The Quantified Process Approach – An emerging approach to neuropsychological assessment. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 14, 212-222.

20.       Poreh, A. (2000). A quantitative evaluation of the copying process of the Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure. Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment, 1, 21-32.

21.       Dannon, P.N., Iancu, I., Levin, J., Poreh, A., & Grunhaus, L. (1999). The relationship between cholesterol and suicide attempts in patients with either panic or major depressive disorders. New Trends in Experimental and Clinical Psychiatry, 15, 29-32.

22.       Adunsky, A., Hershkowitz, M., Atar, E., Bakoun, M., & Poreh, A. (1999). Infarct volume, neurological severity and PAF binding to platelets ofpatients with acute cerebral ischemic stroke. Neurological Research, 21, 645-648.

23.       Gard, D., Harrel, E. H., & Poreh, A. (1999). Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia on the WAIS-R NI Sentence Arrangement Subtest. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55, 1085-1094.  

24.       Poreh, A. & Schullen (1998). Vocational interests and career indecision among psychosis-prone college students. Psychological Reports, 83, 599-607.

25.       Poreh, A. & Shye, S. (1998). Examination of global and local features of the Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure using Faceted Smallest Space Analysis. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 12, 453-467.  

26.        Poreh, A. (1997). Book Review: Integrated psychological therapy for schizophrenic patients: Brenner, H., Roder, V., Kienzle, B., Reed, D., & Liberman, R. Journal of Personality Assessment, 68, 220-224.

27.       Poreh, A., Levin, J., Teves, H., & States, J. (1997). Mixed handedness and schizotypal personality in a non-clinical sample – The role of task demand. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 501-507.  

28.       Levin, J., Lofland, K., Cassisi, J., Poreh, A., & Blonsky, R. (1996). The relationship between self-efficacy and disability in chronic low back pain patients. International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health, 2, 19-28.

29.       Poreh, A., Ross, T., Hanks, R., & Whitman, R. D. (1995). Ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and psychosis-proneness in a diverse sample of college students. Current Psychology: Research and Reviews, 13, 365-370.

30.       Poreh, A. Ross, T. R., & Whitman, R. D. (1995). Reexamination of executive functions in psychosis-prone college students.  Journal of Personality & Individual Differences, 18, 535-539.

31.       Poreh, A. (1995). Psychoanalysis: Waning or waxing? Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), 273, 1490-1491.

32.       Poreh, A., Chapin, K., & Youseff, I. (1994). Correlations between the MMPI and the scale for the assessment of positive symptoms and the scale for the assessment of negative symptoms in schizophrenic patients.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 63, 275-283.

33.       Poreh, A. (1994).  Reexamination of mixed handedness in psychosis-prone college students. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 191, 905-908.

34.       Poreh, A., Whitman, R. D., Weber, W., & Ross, T. (1994).  Facial recognition in hypothetically schizotypic college students: The role of generalized poor performance. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 182, 503-507.

35.       Poreh, A. & Whitman, D. (1993). MMPI-2 schizophrenia spectrum profiles among schizotypal college students and college students who seek psychological treatment.  Psychological Reports, 73, 987-994.

36.       Poreh, A., Whitman, D., & Ross, T. R. (1993).  Creative thinking abilities and hemispheric asymmetry in schizotypal college students. Current Psychology; Research and Reviews, 12, 344-352.

37.       Poreh, A. & Whitman, D. (1991).  Creative cognitive processes and hemispheric  specialization. Journal of Creative Behavior, 25, 169-179.

Book Chapters 38.      Poreh A. (2010). Israel and Immigration. In Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. S. Loue and M. Sajatovic Eds. (In press). Springer Press, New York, NY.

39.      Poreh A. (2010). Immigration and Judaism: religion and rituals, practices. In Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. S. Loue & M. Sajatovic Eds.  (In press). Springer Press, New York, NY.

40.      Poreh, A. (2010). The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Volume 4, Weiner I. & Craighead E. (Ed.) (p. 1464). New York: Wiley Publishing Corporation.

41.      Poreh, A. (2010). The Rey Complex Figure Test. The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Volume 4, Weiner I. & Craighead E. (Ed.)  (p. 1465). New York: Wiley Publishing Corporation..

42.      Poreh, A. and Sultan A. (2009). Guidelines for Neurocognitive Assessment of Minorities. In  Determinants of Minority Mental Health and Wellness, S. Loue and M. Sajatovic Eds.,  (pp. 335-348). Springer Press, New York, NY.

43.      Poreh, A. (2006). Introduction to the Quantified Process Approach. In A. Poreh (Ed.), The Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment, (pp. 3-15). New York: Taylor & Francis Group, Psychological Press.

44.      Poreh, A. (2006). Quandaries of the Quantified Process Approach. In A. Poreh (Ed.), The Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment, (pp. 27-41). New York: Taylor & Francis Group, Psychological Press.

45.      Poreh, A. (2006). Quantification and validation of the Rey Osterrieth global-local indices. In A. Poreh (Ed.), The Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment, (pp. 251-258). New York: Taylor & Francis Group, Psychological Press.

46.      Poreh, A. (2006). Afterword: Future advances of the Quantified Process Approach. In A. Poreh (Ed.), The Quantified Process Approach to Neuropsychological Assessment, (pp. 341-343). New York: Taylor & Francis Group, Psychological Press.

47.      Levin, J., Lofland, K., Cassisi, J., Poreh, A., Blonsky, R. (2003). Back Pain Self-Efficacy Scale. Measurement tools in patient education 2nd Edition. Edited by Barbara K. Redman, New York : Springer Pub

48.      Poreh, A. (2002).  Neuropsychological and psychological issues associated with cross-cultural and minority assessment. In R. Ferraro (Ed.), Minority and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Neuropsychological Assessment (pp.329-343). Lisse, Netherlands:  Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers.

 Patents

49.        Poreh, A & Poreh, M. (Submitted, 2004; US Patent Issued on September 11, 2007). Method for recording, assessing and premeditating performance on grapho-motor and writing tasks. US Patent Application 20060189903.
(Licensed to Cogscript Inc. of Sweden, August 2011)

50.        Poreh, A. & Poreh, M. (Submitted, 2004; Published application, April, 2006). Method for improving the presentation of test stimuli during one-on-one clinical psychological tests. US Patent Application  20060079803.

51.        Poreh, A. & Poreh M. (Submitted, 2004; Published application, September, 2005). Method for improving the administration of psychological examinations. US Patent Application 20050196734. Israel Patent Application G09B 03/03/05