Cassandra Wannan

Plasma neurofilament light chain protein is not increased in treatment-resistant schizophrenia and first-degree relatives

Dhamidhu Eratne, Shorena Janelidze, Charles B Malpas, Samantha Loi, Mark Walterfane, Antonia Merritt, Ibrahima Diouf, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Brandon Cilia, Cassandra Warman, Chad Bousman, Ian Everall, Andrew Zalesky, Mahesh Jayaram, Naveen Thomas, Samuel F Berkovic, Oskar Hansson, Dennis Velakoulis, Christos Pantelis, et al.

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

Objective: Schizophrenia, a complex psychiatric disorder, is often associated with cognitive, neurological and neuroimaging abnorm..

A Systematic Review of Cognition-Brain Morphology Relationships on the Schizophrenia-Bipolar Disorder Spectrum

James A Karantonis, Sean P Carruthers, Susan L Rossell, Christos Pantelis, Matthew Hughes, Cassandra Wannan, Vanessa Cropley, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN

The nature of the relationship between cognition and brain morphology in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) and bipolar disord..

Disruptions in white matter microstructure associated with impaired visual associative memory in schizophrenia-spectrum illness

Cassandra MJ Wannan, Cali F Bartholomeusz, Christos Pantelis, Maria A Di Biase, Warda T Syeda, M Mallar Chakravarty, Chad A Bousman, Ian P Everall, Patrick D McGorry, Andrew Zalesky, Vanessa L Cropley

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE

Episodic memory ability relies on hippocampal-prefrontal connectivity. However, few studies have examined relationships between me..

Brain morphology is differentially impacted by peripheral cytokines in schizophrenia-spectrum disorder

Liliana Laskaris, Sam Mancuso, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Andrew Zalesky, Gursharan Chana, Cassandra Wannan, Chad Bousman, Bernhard T Baune, Patrick McGorry, Christos Pantelis, Vanessa L Cropley

Journal article  |  2021  |  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Deficits in brain morphology are one of the most widely replicated neuropathological features in schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (..

Neurological, neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental complications of COVID-19

Christos Pantelis, Mahesh Jayaram, Anthony J Hannan, Robb Wesselingh, Jess Nithianantharajah, Cassandra MJ Wannan, Warda Taqdees Syeda, KH Christopher Choy, Daniela Zantomio, Arthur Christopoulos, Dennis Velakoulis, Terence J O'Brien

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Although COVID-19 is predominantly a respiratory disease, it is known to affect multiple organ systems. In this article, we highli..

Cognitive reserve attenuates age-related cognitive decline in the context of putatively accelerated brain ageing in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders

Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Vanessa Cropley, Birgitte Fagerlund, Cassandra Wannan, Jason Bruggemann, Rhoshel K Lenroot, Suresh Sundram, Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Thomas W Weickert, Andrew Zalesky, Chad A Bousman, Christos Pantelis

Journal article  |  2020  |  PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: In schizophrenia, relative stability in the magnitude of cognitive deficits across age and illness duration is inconsi..

Impaired olfactory ability associated with larger left hippocampus and rectus volumes at earliest stages of schizophrenia: A sign of neuroinflammation?

Yuri Masaoka, Dennis Velakoulis, Warrick J Brewer, Vanessa L Cropley, Cali F Bartholomeusz, Alison R Yung, Barnaby Nelson, Dominic Dwyer, Cassandra MJ Wannan, Masahiko Izumizaki, Patrick D McGorry, Stephen J Wood, Christos Pantelis

Journal article  |  2020  |  PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

Impaired olfactory identification has been reported as a first sign of schizophrenia during the earliest stages of illness, includ..

EXPLORING NEURODEVELOPMENTAL AND FAMILIAL ORIGINS OF NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

Rebecca Cooper, Tamsyn Van Rheenen, Andrew Zalesky, Cassandra Wannan, Ya Wang, Chad Bousman, Ian Everall, Christos Pantelis, Vanessa Cropley

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN

Neural correlates of memory dysfunction across stages of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder

Cassandra Marie Joanne Wannan

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2020

Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are severe mental illnesses characterised by hallucinations, delusions, blunted affect and disorg..

Hippocampal subfields and visuospatial associative memory across stages of schizophrenia-spectrum disorder

Cassandra MJ Wannan, Vanessa L Cropley, M Mallar Chakravarty, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Sam Mancuso, Chad Bousman, Ian Everall, Patrick D McGorry, Christos Pantelis, Cali F Bartholomeusz

Journal article  |  2019  |  PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: While previous studies have identified relationships between hippocampal volumes and memory performance in schizophren..