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Professor of Psychology

University Hall 4749

(310) 338 - 1766

RMACHON@LMU.EDU

http://myweb.lmu.edu/rmachon/

Education:

B.A., Psychology and French, University of Southern California, 1979
M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Southern California, 1982
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Southern California, 1986

Specialty:

Specialty is psychopathology and clinical psychology.

Research and scholarship interests include:
- Generally, the diathesis-stress model of psychopathology.
- Specifically, psychiatric epidemiology and the neurodevelopmental basis of schizophrenia and other major mental disorders; Longitudinal, high-risk research strategy.
- Community-based evaluation and intervention.
- Pedagogic issues related to American Cultures/Studies.
- Pedagogic issues related to mentoring undergraduate student research.

Clinical interests include:
- Cultural factors in adaptive and maladaptive behavior.
- Diagnosis and treatment of anxiety, mood, and stress-related disorders.
- Social cognitive theory in the conceptualization of clinical problems.
-Psychological factors in grief and mourning.

Dr. Ricardo Machón is a clinical psychologist and he has taught at Loyola Marymount University since 1986. He completed a pre-doctoral, clinical psychology internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA School of Medicine in 1984-85. He has taught courses including: General Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Personality Psychology, Research Practicum, Psychological Assessment & Psychopathology, and Introduction to American Cultures. He served as Director of American Cultures Studies from 1994-1999 and as Associate Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts from 1997-2001. He also served on the Board of Directors for the American Conference of Academic Deans from 2001-2002.

Recent Publications:

Machón, R.A., Mednick, S. A. Huttunen, M. O., & Tanskanen, A. (2006). Fetal neural development and deviance. In A. Raine (Ed.), Crime and schizophrenia: Causes and cures. (pp. 167-178). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Machón, R.A., Huttunen, M. O., & Mednick, S. A. (2005). Infectious etiology of adult schizotypal personality: A paradigm and the evidence. In S. H. Fatemi (Ed.), Neuropsychiatric disorders and infection. (pp. 263-270). London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Books, Ltd.

Machón, R.A., Huttunen, M.O., Mednick, S.A., Sinivuo, J. Tanskanen, A., Watson, J.B., Henriksson, M., & Pyhälä, R. (2002). Adult schizotypal personality characteristics and prenatal influenza in a Finnish cohort. Schizophrenia Research, 54, 7-16.

Machón, R.A., Mednick, S.A., & Huttunen, M.O. (1998, June) Major affective disorder after prenatal exposure to an influenza epidemic. Psychiatry Digest, 3, 20-21.

Mednick, S.A., Watson, J., Huttunen, M.O., Cannon, T., Katila, H., Machón, R.A., et al. (1998). A two-hit working model of the etiology of schizophrenia. In M. Lenzenweger and R. Dworkin (Eds.), Origins and development of schizophrenia: Advances in experimental psychopathology (pp. 27-66). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Machón, R.A., Mednick, S.A., & Huttunen, M.O. (1997). Adult major affective disorder after prenatal exposure to an influenza epidemic. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54, 322-328.

Machón, R.A., Mednick, S.A., Huttunen, M.O., & LaFosse, J. (1995). Schizotypal personality disorder characteristics associated with second trimester disturbance of neural development. In A. Raine, T. Lencz and S.A. Mednick (Eds.), Schizotypal personality (pp. 43-55). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Machón, R.A., Mednick, S.A., & Huttunen, M.O. (1995). Fetal viral infection and adult schizophrenia: Empirical findings and interpretation. In S.A. Mednick and J.M. Hollister (Eds.), Neural development in schizophrenia: Theory and research (pp. 191-202). New York: Plenum Press.

Machón, R. A., & Mednick, S. A. (1994). Schizophrénie de l'adulte et perturbations précoces du développement. [Adult schizophrenia and early neurodevelopmental disturbances]. In J. Guyotat (Ed.), Confrontations psychiatriques: Épidémiologie et psychiatrie, No. 35. (pp. 189-215). Paris: Specia Rhône-Poulenc Rorer.

Mednick, S.A., Huttunen, M.O., & Machón, R.A. (1994). Prenatal influenza infections and adult schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 20(2), 263-267.

Huttunen, M.O., Machón, R.A., & Mednick, S.A. (1994). Prenatal factors in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 164 (Suppl. 23), 15-19.

Machón, R.A., Mednick, S.A., & Schulsinger, F. (1987). Seasonality, birth complications and schizophrenia in a high-risk sample. British Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 122-24.

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