Chris Davey

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

2021 - 2026

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 - 2022

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 - 2021

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

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

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

OPTIMISING EARLY INTERVENTIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH EMERGING MOOD DISORDER

One of our greatest health challenges is to develop highly-personalised interventions for teenagers and young adults with emerging mood diso..

2013 - 2018

Uncovering heterogeneity of youth depression using neuroimaging-based normative models

2017 - 2017

First-Line Management of Youth Depression

The study aims to establish how to best treat adolescents and young adults when they present to mental health clinics with moderate-to-sever..

2012 - 2016

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Chris Davey.

Severe and complex youth depression: Clinical and historical features of young people attending a tertiary mood disorders clinic

Simon M Rice, Ben McKechnie, Susan Cotton, Abi Brooker, Vita Pilkington, Belinsha Youzchalveen, Lianne Schmaal, Christopher G Davey

Journal article | 2021 | EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY

AIM: The concept of severe and complex youth depression has evolved from clinical experience. Here we conducted a file audit study..

Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders (May, 2020, 10.1038/s41380-020-0774-9)

Nils Opel, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Yuri Milaneschi, Dominik Grotegerd, Claas Flint, Ramona Leenings, Janik Goltermann, Maike Richter, Tim Hahn, Georg Woditsch, Klaus Berger, Marco Hermesdorf, Andrew McIntosh, Heather C Whalley, Mathew A Harris, Frank P MacMaster, Henrik Walter, Ilya M Veer, Thomas Frodl, Angela Carballedo, et al.

Journal article | 2021 | MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatry in the frame

Christopher G Davey

Journal article | 2021 | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Characteristics and predictors of suicidality in young people with clinical depression: a systematic review protocol.

Carl I Moller, Christopher G Davey, Paul B Badcock, Sue M Cotton

Journal article | 2021 | JBI Evid Synth

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to examine clinical, psychosocial, and biological factors associated with suicidality i..

Mental images of suicide: Theoretical framework and preliminary findings in depressed youth attending outpatient care

MR De Rozario, LS Van Velzen, P Davies, SM Rice, CG Davey, J Robinson, M Alvarez-Jimenez, K Allott, B McKechnie, KL Felmingham, L Schmaal

Journal article | 2021 | Journal of Affective Disorders Reports

Medicinal psychedelics for mental health and addiction: Advancing research of an emerging paradigm

Daniel Perkins, Jerome Sarris, Susan Rossell, Yvonne Bonomo, David Forbes, Christopher Davey, Daniel Hoyer, Colleen Loo, Greg Murray, Sean Hood, Violeta Schubert, Nicole Leite Galvao-Coelho, Meaghen O'Donnell, Olivia Carter, Paul Liknaitzky, Martin Williams, Dan Siskind, David Penington, Michael Berk, David Castle

Journal article | 2021 | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

The medical use of psychedelic substances (e.g. psilocybin, ayahuasca, lysergic acid diethylamide and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphet..

Brain Correlates of Suicide Attempt in 18,925 Participants Across 18 International Cohorts.

Adrian I Campos, Paul M Thompson, Dick J Veltman, Elena Pozzi, Laura S van Veltzen, Neda Jahanshad, Mark J Adams, Bernhard T Baune, Klaus Berger, Katharina Brosch, Robin Bülow, Colm G Connolly, Udo Dannlowski, Christopher G Davey, Greig I de Zubicaray, Danai Dima, Tracy Erwin-Grabner, Jennifer W Evans, Cynthia HY Fu, Ian H Gotlib, et al.

Journal article | 2021 | Biol Psychiatry

BACKGROUND: Neuroimaging studies of suicidal behavior have so far been conducted in small samples, prone to biases and false-posit..

Trajectories of change in depression symptoms and suicidal ideation over the course of evidence-based treatment for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial of cognitive behavioural therapy plus fluoxetine in young people

Katrina Witt, Trine Madsen, Michael Berk, Olivia Dean, Andrew Chanen, Patrick D McGorry, Sue Cotton, Christopher G Davey, Sarah Hetrick

Journal article | 2021 | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVES: Effective treatment of depression is a key target for suicide prevention strategies. However, only around one-third of..

Differential Modulation of Effective Connectivity in the Brain's Extended Face Processing System by Fearful and Sad Facial Expressions

Alec J Jamieson, Christopher G Davey, Ben J Harrison

Journal article | 2021 | ENEURO

The processing of emotional facial expressions is underpinned by the integration of information from a distributed network of brai..

Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

Sophia Frangou, Amirhossein Modabbernia, Steven CR Williams, Efstathios Papachristou, Gaelle E Doucet, Ingrid Agartz, Moji Aghajani, Theophilus N Akudjedu, Anton Albajes-Eizagirre, Dag Alnaes, Kathryn Alpert, Micael Andersson, Nancy C Andreasen, Ole A Andreassen, Philip Asherson, Tobias Banaschewski, Nuria Bargallo, Sarah Baumeister, Ramona Baur-Streubel, Alessandro Bertolino, et al.

Journal article | 2021 | HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Delineating the association of age and cortical thickness in healthy individuals is critical given the association of cortical thi..

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Health Services and Systems

Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

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News

Displaying the 4 most recent news articles by Chris Davey.

We need to better detect depression but that shouldn't mean more medication

Christopher Davey

Avoiding or delaying diagnosis means people miss out on treatments that might have eased their suffering. Photographee.eu/ShutterstockAbout ..

May 22, 2016

Antidepressants may not be as effective as we thought, and shouldn't be the only treatment for depression

Christopher Davey

Australians are some of the biggest anti-depressant users in the world. Volkan Olmez/Unsplash, FALThe treatment of depression too often mean..

May 15, 2016

Adolescence is hard, but it's not necessarily getting harder

Christopher Davey

Adolescence has always been hard, but there's not much evidence to suggest it's worse for kids these days. Petra Bensted/Flickr, CC ..

November 17, 2015

You've been diagnosed with depression, now what?

Christopher Davey

Therapy, drugs or exercise? The depression treatment journey can be difficult to navigate. Eduardo Millo/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDSo you’re depre..

October 15, 2015