Deanna Barch

Deanna Barch
Born
St. Louis, Missouri
SpouseTodd Braver
Academic background
EducationBA, 1987, Northwestern University
MA, 1991, PhD, 1993, clinical psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
ThesisCommunication disorder and language production in schizophrenia (1993)
Academic work
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis

Deanna Marie Barch is an American psychologist. She is a chair and professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research includes disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, cognitive and language deficits. She also focuses on behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies with normal and clinical populations. Barch is a deputy editor at Biological Psychiatry. She previously served as editor-in-chief of Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.