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DR Christopher Davey

Positions

Academic, Centre for Youth Mental Health
Honorary, Psychiatry

Publications

Selected publications

2017
- Journal Articles
  - A Brain Model of Disturbed Self-Appraisal in Depression. 2017
  - A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective transition from major depression to bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 135. 2017
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Comprehensive Online Self-Monitoring to Support Clinicians Manage Risk of Suicide in Youth Depression A Pilot Study. Crisis: the journal of crisis intervention and suicide prevention. 38. 2017
  - Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group. Molecular Psychiatry. 22. 2017
  - Ethical considerations in preventive interventions for bipolar disorder. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 11. 2017
2016
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Brain Functional Correlates of Emotion Regulation Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Human Brain Mapping. 37. 2016
  - Feelings of shame, embarrassment and guilt and their neural correlates: A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 71. 2016
  - Integrating family work into the treatment of young people with severe and complex depression: A developmentally focused model. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2016
  - Mapping the self in the brain's default mode network. Neuroimage. 132. 2016
  - Moderated online social therapy for depression relapse prevention in young people: Pilot study of a 'next generation' online intervention. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2016
  - Neurodevelopmental correlates of proneness to guilt and shame in adolescence and early adulthood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: a journal for cognitive, affective and social developmental neuroscience. 19. 2016
  - Self and other body perception in anorexia nervosa: The role of posterior DMN nodes. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 2016
  - The effects of stress-tension on depression and anxiety symptoms: evidence from a novel twin modelling analysis. Psychological Medicine. 46. 2016
  - The unfulfilled promise of the antidepressant medications. Medical Journal of Australia. 204. 2016
  - Youth depression alleviation: the Fish Oil Youth Depression Study (YoDA-F): A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment trial. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 10. 2016
2015
- Journal Articles
  - Back to basics: Could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 9. 2015
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - A Neural Mediator of Human Anxiety Sensitivity. Human Brain Mapping. 36. 2015
  - Abnormal Social Reward Responses in Anorexia Nervosa: An fMRI Study. PLoS One. 10. 2015
  - Back to basics: could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 9. 2015
  - Comparing three forms of early intervention for youth with borderline personality disorder (the MOBY study): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 16. 2015
  - Cortico-limbic network abnormalities in individuals with current and past major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 173. 2015
  - Developing a roadmap for the translation of e-mental health services for depression. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 49. 2015
  - Functional brain-imaging correlates of negative affectivity and the onset of first-episode depression. Psychological Medicine. 45. 2015
  - Instruments that prospectively predict bipolar disorder - A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders. 179. 2015
  - Mapping the relationship between subgenual cingulate cortex functional connectivity and depressive symptoms across adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 10. 2015
  - Prospective progression from high-prevalence disorders to bipolar disorder: Exploring characteristics of pre-illness stages. Journal of Affective Disorders. 183. 2015
  - Specific functional connectivity alterations of the dorsal striatum in young people with depression. NeuroImage: Clinical. 7. 2015
  - Youth Depression Alleviation-Augmentation with an anti-inflammatory agent (YoDA-A): Protocol and rationale for a placebo-controlled randomized trial of rosuvastatin and aspirin. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2015
2014
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Development of practice principles for the management of ongoing suicidal ideation in young people diagnosed with major depressive disorder. 2014
  - Extremely preterm birth and adolescent mental health in a geographical cohort born in the 1990s. Psychological Medicine. 44. 2014
  - Online and Social Networking Interventions for the Treatment of Depression in Young People: A Systematic Review.. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16. 2014
  - The addition of fluoxetine to cognitive behavioural therapy for youth depression (YoDA-C): study protocol for a randomised control trial. Trials. 15. 2014
2013
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Aspirin: a review of its neurobiological properties and therapeutic potential for mental illness. BMC Medicine. 11. 2013
  - Functional brain imaging studies of youth depression: A systematic review. NeuroImage: Clinical. 2013. 2013
2012
- Journal Articles
  - Regionally specific alterations in functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder. 2012
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Adolescents' depressive symptoms moderate neural responses to their mothers' positive behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 7. 2012
  - Brain functional connectivity during induced sadness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 37. 2012
  - Meta-analysis of volumetric abnormalities in cortico-striatal-pallidal-thalamic circuits in major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine. 42. 2012
  - Regionally specific alterations in functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine. 42. 2012
  - Task-related deactivation and functional connectivity of the subgenual cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 3. 2012
  - Treatment of bipolar depression. Medical Journal of Australia. 1. 2012
- Journal Articles Unrefereed
  - The treatment of depression in young people. In-Psych. 34. 2012
- Conference Proceedings
  - Increased Rates of Adhd but not Other Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescents Born Extremely Low Birthweight (elbw; < 1000g) or Extremely Preterm (ep; < 28 Weeks): An 18-Year Follow-Up Study. Biological Psychiatry. 2012
2011
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Increased Amygdala Response to Positive Social Feedback in Young People with Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 69. 2011
  - Prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses in preterm and full-term children, adolescents and young adults: a meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine. 41. 2011
2010
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - Being liked activates primary reward and midline self-related brain regions. Human Brain Mapping. 31. 2010
  - Fronto-striatal correlates of impaired implicit sequence learning in major depression: An fMRI study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 125. 2010
2008
- Journal Articles Refereed
  - The emergence of depression in adolescence: Development of the prefrontal cortex and the representation of reward. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 32. 2008
2007
- Journal Articles Unrefereed
  - A possible behavioural and cognitive phenotype for the 47,XYY karyotype in a pre-pubertal child. Australasian Psychiatry. 15. 2007

Research

Investigator on

Contract
- UNDERSTANDING THE NEURAL BASIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF MORAL EMOTIONS IN ADOLESCENTS DEPRESSION administered by Psychiatry 2013 -
Grant
- Uncovering heterogeneity of youth depression using neuroimaging-based normative models (Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 2017
- REFINING TREATMENT STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH DEPRESSION (Career Development Fellowships) awarded by NHMRC 2014 - 2018
- PREDICTING TREATMENT RESPONSE IN YOUTH DEPRESSION WITH BRAIN IMAGING (Project Grants) awarded by NHMRC 2014 - 2017
- OPTIMISING EARLY INTERVENTIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EMERGING MOOD DISORDER (Centres of Research Excellence) awarded by NHMRC 2013 - 2018
- PROOF OF PRINCIPLE OF THE INFLAMMATORY AND OXIDATIVE THEORY OF DEPRESSION: A TREATMENT STUDY (Project Grants) awarded by DEAKIN UNIVERSITY 2012 - 2017
- First-Line Management of Youth Depression (Project Grants) awarded by NHMRC 2012 - 2016
- USING A NOVEL PARADIGM TO UNDERSTAND THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF REJECTION SENSITIVITY IN ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION (ORYGEN PORTION) (Young Investigator Award) awarded by NARSAD 2012 - 2016
- A Brain-Based Measure of Anxiety Sensitivity (Project Grants) awarded by NHMRC 2012 - 2014
- Predicting Antidepressant Response in Young People with Depression (Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme) awarded by UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 2011 -
- The self and social engagement in young people with depression and at high risk of depression. (Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships) awarded by NHMRC 2010 - 2014
- FIRST EPISODE DEPRESSION IN YOUNG PEOPLE: AN FMRI STUDY OF RESPONSES TO IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED, SOCIAL AND NON-SOCIAL REWARDS. (Neuro Science Research Grants) awarded by PFIZER AUST PTY LTD 2008

Awards

Education and training

PhD, University of Melbourne
MPsychiatry, University of Melbourne
MBBS (Hons), The University of Western Australia

Awards and honors

Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2008

Supervision

Available for supervision

Y

Contact Details
- c.davey@unimelb.edu.au
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