A/Prof Kelly Allott

Dr Allott is a Senior Research Fellow and Clinical Neuropsychologist at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne. She first worked in the Centre for Youth Mental Health as a Research Assistant in 2000 and worked on several research projects focusing on personality disorders and early psychosis in adolescents and young adults.

In 2007 she graduated from Monash University with a Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology), after which she obtained a joint clinical-research position at Orygen as a Research Fellow and Clinical Neuropsychologist in the Neuropsychology Unit. In 2010 Dr Allott was awarded a full-time NHMRC Clinical Research Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, which was followed by a Ronald Philip Griffiths Fellowship from the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences. She recently received a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship to continue her work in understanding and treating cognitive dysfunction in youth mental health. Her research focuses on examining the role of cognition and social cognition in youth mental illness, including the relative contribution of cognition to functional outcome and novel and youth friendly interventions for addressing cognition and functioning in youth mental illness.

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FEATURED Journal article

Subjective cognitive functioning in relation to changes in levels of depression and anxiety in youth over 3 months of treatment

Kelly Allott's selected work

The Vulnerable Self: A Neurophenomenological Model Of The Onset Of Schizophrenia Spectrum ..

Research Grant

What is taurine and how can it improve psychosis?

NEWS ARTICLE

Cognitive strengths-based assessment and intervention in first-episode psychosis: A comple..

Journal article

Understanding And Effectively Treating Cognitive And Functioning Impairments In Youth With..

Research Grant

INdividual Vocational and Educational Support Trial (INVEST) for young people with borderl..

Journal article

The Efficacy Of N-Acetyl Cysteine As An Adjunctive Treatment For First Episode Psychosis

Research Grant

Projects

Displaying the 9 most recent projects by Kelly Allott.

The Vulnerable Self: A Neurophenomenological Model Of The Onset Of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

2020 - 2026

Active

Understanding And Effectively Treating Cognitive And Functioning Impairments In Youth With Psychosis And Other Mental Disorders

Impaired thinking skills, such as memory, concentration and problem solving, emerge early in psychotic and other mental disorders, which has..

2018 - 2022

Active

The Efficacy Of N-Acetyl Cysteine As An Adjunctive Treatment For First Episode Psychosis

First episode psychosis may foreshadow devastating, chronic illness. Psychosis follows a staged, progressive pathway. There is evidence to s..

2017 - 2022

Active

Does Antipsychotic Dose Reduction Lead To Better Functional Recovery In First Episode Psychosis: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Can a person with a first episode of psychosis, once remitted, reduce their dosage of medication and still achieve better outcomes in functi..

2016 - 2021

Active

Enhancing Employment Duration In First-Episode Psychosis By Addressing Cognitive Impairments: A Randomised Controlled Trial

2016 - 2016

Completed

Antipsychotic Medication In First-Episode Psychosis: An Rct To Assess The Risk-Benefit Ratio

There has been an increasing emphasis on intervening early in psychotic disorders. A fundamental principle in early intervention is “to do n..

2014 - 2018

Completed

A Feasibility Study Of Cognitive Adaptation Training In Early Psychosis

2012 - 2012

Completed

Training For The Intellectual Difficulties Linked To Poor Community Functioning In Early Psychosis

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2010 - 2016

Completed

Supporting Cognitive Difficulties To Improve Functional Outcomes In Early Psychosis: A Feasibility Study Of Cognitive Adaptation Training

Completed

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Projects

Project Types

Research Grant

Internal Research Grant

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 143 most recent scholarly works by Kelly Allott.

Subjective cognitive functioning in relation to changes in levels of depression and anxiety in youth over 3 months of treatment

Kelly Allott, Caroline Gao, Sarah E Hetrick, Kate M Filia, Jana M Menssink, Caroline Fisher, Ian B Hickie, Helen E Herrman, Debra J Rickwood, Alexandra G Parker, Patrick D Mcgorry, Sue M Cotton

Journal article | 2020 | BJPsych Open

Background Subjective cognitive difficulties are common in mental illness and have a negative impact on role functioning. Lit..

Cognitive strengths-based assessment and intervention in first-episode psychosis: A complementary approach to addressing functional recovery?

Kelly Allott, Peter Steele, Frances Boyer, Ashleigh de Winter, Shayden Bryce, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Lisa Phillips

Journal article | 2020 | Clinical Psychology Review

People who have experienced psychosis describe functional and personal recovery as a key goal of treatment. To date, the early, pe..

INdividual Vocational and Educational Support Trial (INVEST) for young people with borderline personality disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Andrew M Chanen, Katie Nicol, Jennifer K Betts, Gary R Bond, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Henry J Jackson, Katherine N Thompson, Martina Jovev, Hok Pan Yuen, Gina Chinnery, Judith Ring, Kelly Allott, Louise McCutcheon, Ashleigh P Salmon, Eoin Killackey

Journal article | 2020 | Trials

Background: The clinical onset of borderline personality disorder (BPD) usually occurs in young people (aged 12–25 years) and comm..

Disengagement Processes Within an Early Intervention Service for First-Episode Psychosis: A Longitudinal, Qualitative, Multi-Perspective Study

Rachel Tindall, Magenta Simmons, Kelly Allott, Bridget Hamilton

Journal article | 2020 | Frontiers in Psychiatry

Background: Specialized early intervention services for first-episode psychosis have been well established in many countries to me..

The complexities of understanding cognitive trajectory in bipolar disorder

Kelly Allott, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen

Journal article | 2020 | Bipolar Disorders

The recent systematic review and meta-analysis by Szmulewicz, Valerio (1) addresses an issue of current debate in the field - that..

Letters to the Editor Failing to Gain: Another Explanation of Cognitive Change in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses in the Decade following the First Episode

A Panayiotou, S Wood, A Stainton, T Van Rheenen, K Allott, C Pantelis

Journal article | 2020 | American Journal of Psychiatry

Cognitive functioning in ultra -high risk for psychosis individuals with and without depression: Secondary analysis of findings from the NEURAPRO randomized clinical trial

Sumudu Rasangi Mallawaarachchi, G Paul Amminger, John Farhall, Luke K Bolt, Barnaby Nelson, Hok Pan Yuen, Patrick D McGorry, Connie Markulev, Miriam R Schaefer, Nilufar Mossaheb, Monika Schloegelhofer, Stefan Smesny, Ian B Hickie, Gregor Emanuel Berger, Eric YH Chen, Lieuwe de Haan, Dorien H Nieman, Merete Nordentoft, Anita Riecher-Roessler, Swapna Verma, et al.

Journal article | 2020 | Schizophrenia Research

Neurocognitive impairments are well established in both ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis and major depressive disorder (MDD). D..

Failing to Gain: Another Explanation of Cognitive Change in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses in the Decade Following the First Episode

Anita Panayiotou, Stephen Wood, Alexandra Stainton, Tamsyn Van Rheenen, Kelly Allott, Christos Pantelis

Journal article | 2020 | American Journal of Psychiatry

Youth access clinics in Gippsland: Barriers and enablers to service accessibility in rural settings

Erin Dolan, Kelly Allott, Amanda Proposch, Matthew Hamilton, Eoin Killackey

Journal article | 2020 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Acceptability, safety and perceived impact of providing a fact sheet to young people about cognitive symptoms in depression

Shayden Bryce, Melanie Cooke, Hok Pan Yuen, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2020 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

AIM: Cognitive deficits are common in young people, aged 15-25, with depression. Nevertheless, these symptoms are not routinely ad..

Harmonised collection of data in youth mental health: Towards large datasets

Suzie Lavoie, Kelly Allott, Paul Amminger, Cali Bartholomeusz, Maximus Berger, Michael Breakspear, Anjali K Henders, Rico Lee, Ashleigh Lin, Patrick McGorry, Simon Rice, Lianne Schmaal, Stephen J Wood

Journal article | 2020 | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

OBJECTIVE: The current international trend is to create large datasets with existing data and/or deposit newly collected data into..

The neurophenomenology of early psychosis: An integrative empirical study

B Nelson, S Lavoie, L Gaweda, E Li, LA Sass, D Koren, PD McGorry, BN Jack, J Parnas, A Polari, K Allott, JA Hartman, TJ Whitford

Journal article | 2020 | Consciousness and Cognition

BACKGROUND: The integration of various domains or levels of analysis (clinical, neurobiological, genetic, etc.) has been a challen..

Can antipsychotic dose reduction lead to better functional recovery in first-episode psychosis? A randomized controlled-trial of antipsychotic dose reduction. The reduce trial: Study protocol

Amber Weller, John Gleeson, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Patrick McGorry, Barnaby Nelson, Kelly Allott, Sarah Bendall, Cali Bartholomeusz, Peter Koval, Susy Harrigan, Brian O'Donoghue, Alex Fornito, Christos Pantelis, G Paul Amminger, Aswin Ratheesh, Andrea Polari, Stephen J Wood, Kristi van der El, Carli Ellinghaus, Jesse Gates, et al.

Journal article | 2019 | EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY

Antipsychotic medication has been the mainstay of treatment for psychotic illnesses for over 60 years. This has been associated wi..

ENACT: a protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial investigating the efficacy and mechanisms of action of adjunctive N-acetylcysteine for first-episode psychosis

SM Cotton, M Berk, A Watson, S Wood, K Allott, CF Bartholomeusz, CC Bortolasci, K Walder, B O'Donoghue, OM Dean, A Chanen, GP Amminger, PD McGorry, A Burnside, J Uren, A Ratheesh, S Dodd

Journal article | 2019 | Trials

BACKGROUND: First-episode psychosis (FEP) may lead to a progressive, potentially disabling and lifelong chronic illness; however, ..

Depressive psychopathology in first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression

Sarah E Herniman, Kelly Allott, Lisa J Phillips, Stephen J Wood, Jacqueline Uren, Sumudu R Mallawaarachchi, Sue M Cotton

Journal article | 2019 | Psychological Medicine

BACKGROUND: Despite knowing for many decades that depressive psychopathology is common in first-episode schizophrenia spectrum dis..

The missing voice of engagement: an exploratory study from the perspectives of case-managers at an early intervention service for first-episode psychosis

Rachel M Tindall, Kelly Allott, Magenta Simmons, Winsome Roberts, Bridget E Hamilton

Journal article | 2019 | BMC PSYCHIATRY

BACKGROUND: A key component of case-management in early intervention services for first-episode psychosis is engaging a person wit..

The efficacy and safety of nutrient supplements in the treatment of mental disorders: a meta-review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

Joseph Firth, Scott B Teasdale, Kelly Allott, Dan Siskind, Wolfgang Marx, Jack Cotter, Nicola Veronese, Felipe Schuch, Lee Smith, Marco Solmi, Andre F Carvalho, Davy Vancampfort, Michael Berk, Brendon Stubbs, Jerome Sarris

Journal article | 2019 | World Psychiatry

Thematic analysis of youth mental health providers' perceptions of neuropsychological assessment services

Garance Delagneau, Stephen C Bowden, Shayden Bryce, Kristi van-der-EL, Matthew Hamilton, Sophie Adams, Liz Burgat, Eoin Killackey, Debra Rickwood, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Longitudinal Cognitive Performance in Individuals at Ultrahigh Risk for Psychosis: A 10-year Follow-up

Kelly Allott, Stephen J Wood, Hok Pan Yuen, Alison R Yung, Barnaby Nelson, Warrick J Brewer, Daniela Spiliotacopoulos, Annie Bruxner, Magenta Simmons, Christina Broussard, Sumudu Mallawaarachchi, Christos Pantelis, Patrick D McGorry, Ashleigh Lin

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | Schizophrenia Bulletin

Staged treatment and acceptability guidelines in early psychosis study (STAGES): A randomized placebo controlled trial of intensive psychosocial treatment plus or minus antipsychotic medication for first-episode psychosis with low-risk of self-harm or aggression. Study protocol and baseline characteristics of participants

Brian O'Donoghue, Shona M Francey, Barnaby Nelson, Aswin Ratheesh, Kelly Allott, Jessica Grahann, Lara Baldwin, Mario Alvarez-Jinnenez, Andrew Thonnpson, Alex Fornito, Andrea Polari, Michael Berk, Craig Macneil, Kingsley Crisp, Christos Pantelis, Hok P Yuen, Susy Harrigan, Patrick McGorry

Journal article | 2019 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Factors associated with vocational disengagement among young people entering mental health treatment

Emma Caruana, Kelly Allott, John Farhall, Emma M Parrish, Christopher G Davey, Andrew M Chanen, Eoin Killackey, Susan M Cotton

Journal article | 2019 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Cognitive screening: A significant unmet need in youth mental health

Shayden Bryce, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Subjective experiences of neurocognitive functioning in young people with major depression

Catherine Morey-Nase, Lisa J Phillips, Shayden Bryce, Sarah Hetrick, Andrea L Wright, Emma Caruana, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2019 | BMC Psychiatry

The Vitamins in Psychosis Study: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of the Effects of Vitamins B-12, B-6, and Folic Acid on Symptoms and Neurocognition in First-Episode Psychosis

Kelly Allott, Patrick D McGorry, Hok Pan Yuen, Joseph Firth, Tina-Marie Proffitt, Gregor Berger, Paul Maruff, Michaels K O'Regan, Alicia Papas, Timothy CB Stephens, Colin P O'Donnell

Journal article | 2019 | Biological Psychiatry

Perceived need for neuropsychological assessment according to geographic location: A survey of Australian youth mental health clinicians

Garance Delagneau, Stephen C Bowden, Kristi van-der-EL, Shayden Bryce, Matthew Hamilton, Sophie Adams, Liz Burgat, Eoin Killackey, Debra Rickwood, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Applied Neuropsychology: Child

Social inclusion and its interrelationships with social cognition and social functioning in first-episode psychosis

Andrew Gardner, Sue M Cotton, Kelly Allott, Kate M Filia, Robert Hester, Eoin Killackey

Journal article | 2019 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Vocational engagement among young people entering mental health treatment compared with their general population peers

Emma Caruana, John Farhall, Susan M Cotton, Emma Parrish, Kristi van-der-EL, Christopher G Davey, Andrew M Chanen, Shayden D Bryce, Eoin Killackey, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Need for clinical neuropsychological assessment in headspace youth mental health services: A national survey of providers

Kelly Allott, Kristi van-der-EL, Shayden Bryce, Matthew Hamilton, Sophie Adams, Liz Burgat, Eoin Killackey, Debra Rickwood

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Journal of Psychology

Contribution of neurocognition to 18-month employment outcomes in first-episode psychosis

George J Karambelas, Sue M Cotton, John Farhall, Eoin Killackey, Kelly A Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Cognitive functioning following discontinuation of antipsychotic medication. A naturalistic sub-group analysis from the OPUS II trial

Nikolai Albert, Lasse Randers, Kelly Allott, Heidi Dorthe Jensen, Marianne Melau, Carsten Hjorthoj, Merete Nordentoft

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | Psychological Medicine

Neurocognition as a predictor of transition to psychotic disorder and functional outcomes in ultra-high risk participants: Findings from the NEURAPRO randomized clinical trial

Luke K Bolt, G Paul Amminger, John Farhall, Patrick D McGorry, Barnaby Nelson, Connie Markulev, Hok Pan Yuen, Miriam R Schafer, Nilufar Mossaheb, Monika Schlogelhofer, Stefan Smesny, Ian B Hickie, Gregor Emanuel Berger, Eric YH Chen, Lieuwe de Haan, Dorien H Nieman, Merete Nordentoft, Anita Riecher-Roessler, Swapna Verma, Andrew Thompson, et al.

Journal article | 2019 | Schizophrenia Research

GREY MATTER BRAIN CHANGES IN MEDICATED AND UNMEDICATED FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS: A RANDOMISED PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL

Sidhant Chopra, Alex Fornito, Shona Francey, Brian O'Donoghue, Barnaby Nelson, Jessica Graham, Lara Baldwin, Hok Pan Yuen, Kelly Allott, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Christos Pantelis, Suzy Harrigan, Stephen Wood, Patrick D McGorry

Conference Proceedings | 2019 | Schizophrenia Bulletin

Testing a neurophenomenological model of basic self disturbance in early psychosis

Barnaby Nelson, Suzie Lavoie, Lukasz Gaweda, Emily Li, Louis A Sass, Dan Koren, Patrick D McGorry, Bradley N Jack, Josef Parnas, Andrea Polari, Kelly Allott, Jessica A Hartmann, Thomas J Whitford

Journal article | 2019 | World Psychiatry

Exploring the use of the Hinting Task in first-episode psychosis

Sumudu Rasangi Mallawaarachchi, Susan Maree Cotton, Jacqueline Anderson, Eoin Killackey, Kelly Anne Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Subjective experiences of cognitive functioning in early psychosis: a qualitative study

Andrea L Wright, Lisa J Phillips, Shayden Bryce, Catherine Morey-Nase, Kelly Allott

Journal article | 2019 | Psychosis

Individual placement and support for vocational recovery in first-episode psychosis: randomised controlled trial

Eóin Killackey, Kelly Allott, Henry J Jackson, Rosanna Scutella, Yi-Ping Tseng, Jeff Borland, Tina-Marie Proffitt, Sally Hunt, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Gina Chinnery, Gennady Baksheev, Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Patrick D McGorry, Susan M Cotton

Journal article | 2019 | The British journal of psychiatry

BACKGROUND: High unemployment is a hallmark of psychotic illness. Individual placement and support (IPS) may be effective at assis..

The Contribution of Employment Duration to 18-Month Neurocognitive Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

George J Karambelas, Kelly A Allott, Eoin Killackey, John Farhall, Sue M Cotton

Journal article | 2018 | Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

An fMRI study of theory of mind in individuals with first episode psychosis

Cali F Bartholomeusz, Eleni P Ganella, Sarah Whittle, Kelly Allott, Andrew Thompson, Ahmad Abu-Akerl, Henrik Walter, Patrick McGorry, Eoin Killackey, Christos Pantelis, Stephen J Wood

Journal article | 2018 | Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging

Improving Mental Health in Young People through Harmonised Collection of Data

Suzie Lavoie, Kelly Allott, Paul Amminger, Maximus Berger, Michael Breakspear, Anjali Henders, Rico Lee, Ashleigh Lin, Patrick McGorry, Simon Rice, Lianne Schmaal, Stephen Wood