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Chris Davey

Professor
Psychiatry
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
mental health
psychiatry
clinical research
brain disorders
behavioral and social science
neurosciences
depression
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Chris Davey

 
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Projects

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Bipolar Early intervention using New Digital technologies: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of a multi-component model of evidence-based care

2023 - 2028
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Mental Health Australia General Clinical Trial Network (MAGNET) MRF2006296

2021 - 2027
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Mental Health Australia General Clinical Trial Network

2022 - 2027
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Pragmatic trial of a targeted digital intervention for youth with suicidal thoughts and behaviours attending outpatient care

Existing programs aiming to reduce suicide ideation in youth often fail to impart lasting benefits in helping young people stay well. Our te..

2021 - 2026
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THE VULNERABLE SELF: A NEUROPHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE ONSET OF SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM DISORDERS

2020 - 2026
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A NEURAL SYSTEMS MODEL OF FEAR DYSREGULATION IN ANXIETY DISORDERS

This project will combine advanced brain imaging and brain network modelling to understand why people with different anxiety disorders have ..

2019 - 2023
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A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF LOW-DOSE KETAMINE IN YOUTH WITH SEVERE DEPRESSION AND ELEVATED SUICIDE RISK

Recent research has shown that a single injection of low-dose ketamine has powerful, though short-lived, antidepressant effects. Effective t..

2018 - 2023
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A BRAIN-BASED MODEL OF ANXIETY SENSITIVITY IN PANIC DISORDER

This project will combine advanced brain imaging and brain network modelling to better understand the neurobiology of panic disorder with re..

2018 - 2020
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PREDICTING TREATMENT RESPONSE IN YOUTH DEPRESSION WITH BRAIN IMAGING

Depression is the single greatest cause of disability and morbidity in young people. In order to reduce its substantial burden on individual..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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PROOF OF PRINCIPLE OF THE INFLAMMATORY AND OXIDATIVE THEORY OF DEPRESSION: A TREATMENT STUDY

Depression is the most prevalent health problem in young people, with a prevalence as high as 24 percent. There is evidence demonstrating a ..

2012 - 2018
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

16

Research Grant

2

Internal Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

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The association between stressful experiences and OCD symptoms in young adults at transdiagnostic risk.

Louise Destrée, Lucy Albertella, Laura Jobson, Patrick McGorry, Andrew Chanen, Aswin Ratheesh, Christopher Davey, Andrea Polari, Paul Amminger, Hok Pan Yuen, Jessica Hartmann, Rachael Spooner, Leonardo F Fontenelle, Barnaby Nelson

Journal article  |  2023  |  J Affect Disord

BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether there is a specific association between stressful experiences and obsessive-compulsive symptoms ..

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Subcortical contributions to salience network functioning during negative emotional processing.

Sevil Ince, Trevor Steward, Ben J Harrison, Alec J Jamieson, Christopher G Davey, James A Agathos, Bradford A Moffat, Rebecca K Glarin, Kim L Felmingham

Journal article  |  2023  |  Neuroimage

Core regions of the salience network (SN), including the anterior insula (aINS) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), coord..

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Functional connectivity signatures of major depressive disorder: machine learning analysis of two multicenter neuroimaging studies

Selene Gallo, Ahmed El-Gazzar, Paul Zhutovsky, Rajat M Thomas, Nooshin Javaheripour, Meng Li, Lucie Bartova, Deepti Bathula, Udo Dannlowski, Christopher Davey, Thomas Frodl, Ian Gotlib, Simone Grimm, Dominik Grotegerd, Tim Hahn, Paul J Hamilton, Ben J Harrison, Andreas Jansen, Tilo Kircher, Bernhard Meyer, et al.

Journal article  |  2023  |  MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

The promise of machine learning has fueled the hope for developing diagnostic tools for psychiatry. Initial studies showed high ac..

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Predictors of suicidal ideation severity among treatment-seeking young people with major depressive disorder: The role of state and trait anxiety

Carl Moller, Paul B Badcock, Sarah E Hetrick, Simon Rice, Michael Berk, Katrina Witt, Andrew M Chanen, Olivia M Dean, Caroline Gao, Sue M Cotton, Christopher G Davey

Journal article  |  2023  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVE: Depression and suicidal ideation are closely intertwined. Yet, among young people with depression, the specific factors..

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Lived experience and the work we do

Christopher G Davey

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

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The neurobiology of Pavlovian safety learning: Towards an acquisition-expression framework

Patrick AF Laing, Kim L Felmingham, Christopher G Davey, Ben J Harrison

Journal article  |  2022  |  NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Safety learning creates associations between conditional stimuli and the absence of threat. Studies of human fear conditioning hav..

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A distinct intra-individual suppression subnetwork in the brain's default mode network across cognitive tasks

Christine A Leonards, Ben J Harrison, Alec J Jamieson, Trevor Steward, Silke Lux, Alexandra Philipsen, Christopher G Davey

Journal article  |  2022  |  CEREBRAL CORTEX

Suppression of the brain's default mode network (DMN) during external goal-directed cognitive tasks has been consistently observed..

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Structural brain alterations associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young people: results from 21 international studies from the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium

Laura S van Velzen, Maria R Dauvermann, Lejla Colic, Luca M Villa, Hannah S Savage, Yara J Toenders, Alyssa H Zhu, Joanna K Bright, Adrian Campos, Lauren E Salminen, Sonia Ambrogi, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola, Nerisa Banaj, Zeynep Basgoze, Jochen Bauer, Karina Blair, Robert James Blair, Katharina Brosch, Yuqi Cheng, Romain Colle, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Identifying brain alterations associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) in young people is critical to understanding ..

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Assessing Suicidal Ideation in Young People With Depression: Factor Structure of the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire

Carl Moller, Paul B Badcock, Sarah E Hetrick, Simon Rice, Michael Berk, Olivia M Dean, Andrew M Chanen, Caroline Gao, Christopher G Davey, Sue M Cotton

Journal article  |  2022  |  OMEGA-JOURNAL OF DEATH AND DYING

Evaluating suicidal ideation in young people seeking mental health treatment is an important component of clinical assessment and ..

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Cannabidiol for Treatment-Resistant Anxiety Disorders in Young People: An Open-Label Trial.

Maximus Berger, Emily Li, Simon Rice, Christopher G Davey, Aswin Ratheesh, Sophie Adams, Henry Jackson, Sarah Hetrick, Alexandra Parker, Tim Spelman, Richard Kevin, Iain S McGregor, Patrick McGorry, G Paul Amminger

Journal article  |  2022  |  J Clin Psychiatry

Background: Treatment resistance is a significant problem among young people experiencing moderate-to-severe anxiety, affecting ne..

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Keyword Analysis

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Clinical Sciences
Health Services and Systems
Neurosciences
Clinical Health
Other Psychology
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)
Expanding Knowledge
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
Biological Psychology

News

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The chemical imbalance theory of depression is dead, but that doesn't mean antidepressants don't work

Christopher Davey

The chemical imbalance theory of depression is well and truly dead. A paper by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues, long-time critics of the ef..

August 2, 2022
conversation Article
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We need to better detect depression but that shouldn't mean more medication

Christopher Davey

About 4% of Australians have suffered from depression in the past 12 months, but half of them have not had it diagnosed. They may not have ..

May 22, 2016
conversation Article
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Antidepressants may not be as effective as we thought, and shouldn't be the only treatment for depression

Christopher Davey

The treatment of depression too often means treatment with antidepressants. Australia has one of the highest rates of antidepressant use in..

May 15, 2016
conversation Article
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Adolescence is hard, but it's not necessarily getting harder

Christopher Davey

Adolescence can be tough. On Four Corners last night we heard some wonderfully candid reports from young people about the stresses and diff..

November 17, 2015
conversation Article
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You've been diagnosed with depression, now what?

Christopher Davey

So you’re depressed. You know this because a health professional has told you so, or you’ve been depressed before and there is no mistaking..

October 15, 2015
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2008

FRANZCP - Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

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Credentials

Positions

Professor

Psychiatry

Chair Of Child And Youth Psychiatry Task Force

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry

Chair

Australasian Society of Bipolar and Depressive Disorders

Member

International Society of Bipolar Disorders

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

The University of Melbourne

Master of Psychiatry

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (Honours)

The University of Western Australia

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