[1] While Barch completed her clinical internship in Pittsburgh, she worked as a therapist with mentally ill patients.
[4] Upon completing her internship and three-year postdoctoral fellowship, Barch and her husband Todd Braver received assistant professor positions at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) Department of Psychology in 1998.
[6] Barch and Braver were soon appointed co-directors of the cognitive control and psychopathology laboratory in the psychology department.
Her research team found that poor memory function in schizophrenia does not reflect an immutable inability to learn new information.
[9] Barch also became the co-principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health project to standardize measurements of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
"[10] In 2013, Barch collaborated with Alan Ceaser to research about cognition in schizophrenia and core psychological and neutral mechanisms.
[11] Barch is a Principal Investigator of the Human Connectome Project–Development, which aims to map the development of brain connectivity in healthy children.