Mark Walterfang

Cognitive profiles in patients with epileptic and nonepileptic seizures evaluated using a brief cognitive assessment tool.

Roxane Dilcher, Charles B Malpas, Mark Walterfang, Patrick Kwan, Terence J O'Brien, Dennis Velakoulis, Lucy Vivash

Journal article  |  2020  |  Epilepsy & Behavior

BACKGROUND: There is a need for the development of brief tools to screen for cognitive impairments in epilepsy patients in order t..

A 10 year retrospective cohort study of inpatients with younger-onset dementia

Samantha M Loi, Dhamidhu Eratne, Anita MY Goh, Pierre Wibawa, Sarah Farrand, Wendy Kelso, Andrew Evans, Rosie Watson, Mark Walterfang, Dennis Velakoulis

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

OBJECTIVES: Younger-onset dementia (YOD) refers to a dementia where symptom onset occurs when the patient is less than 65 years of..

Time to diagnosis in younger-onset dementia and the impact of a specialist diagnostic service.

Samantha M Loi, Anita MY Goh, Ramon Mocellin, Charles B Malpas, Shaun Parker, Dhamidhu Eratne, Sarah Farrand, Wendy Kelso, Andrew Evans, Mark Walterfang, Dennis Velakoulis

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Psychogeriatrics

OBJECTIVES: While early diagnosis of younger-onset dementia (YOD) is crucial in terms of accessing appropriate services and future..

OCD symptoms in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency: a case report

Sachin Phakey, Thomas Rego, Frank Gaillard, Julie Panetta, Andrew Evans, Gerard De Jong, Mark Walterfang

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Psychiatry

BACKGROUND: Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency is a rare neurometabolic disorder resulting in a heterogeneous ..

Use of olanzapine to treat agitation in traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Ruby K Phyland, Adam McKay, John Olver, Mark Walterfang, Malcolm Hopwood, Amelia J Hicks, Duncan Mortimer, Jennie L Ponsford

Journal article  |  2020  |  Trials

BACKGROUND: Agitation is common in the early stages of recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI), when patients are in post-traum..

Pineal Gland Volume in Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

Tsutomu Takahashi, Daiki Sasabayashi, Murat Yucel, Sarah Whittle, Valentina Lorenzetti, Mark Walterfang, Michio Suzuki, Christos Pantelis, Gin S Malhi, Nicholas B Allen

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Psychiatry

Imaging of neuroinflammation in adult Niemann-Pick type C disease A cross-sectional study

Mark Walterfang, Maria A Di Biase, Vanessa L Cropley, Andrew M Scott, Graeme O'Keefe, Dennis Velakoulis, Kunthi Pathmaraj, Uwe Ackermann, Christos Pantelis

Journal article  |  2020  |  Neurology

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that neuroinflammation is a key process in adult Niemann-Pick type C (NPC) disease, we undertook..

Probability of major depression diagnostic classification based on the SCID, CIDI and MINI diagnostic interviews controlling for Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale - Depression subscale scores: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 73 primary studies

Yin Wu, Brooke Levis, Ying Sun, Ankur Krishnan, Chen He, Kira E Riehm, Danielle B Rice, Marleine Azar, Xin Wei Yan, Dipika Neupane, Parash Mani Bhandari, Mahrukh Imran, Matthew J Chiovitti, Nazanin Saadat, Jill T Boruff, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, Dean McMillan, John PA Ioannidis, Lorie A Kloda, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Psychosomatic Research

OBJECTIVE: Two previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) found that different diagnostic interviews classify dif..

A study protocol for a phase II randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sodium selenate as a disease-modifying treatment for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

Lucy Vivash, Charles B Malpas, Leonid Churilov, Mark Walterfang, Amy Brodtmann, Olivier Piguet, Rebekah M Ahmed, Ashley Bush, Christopher M Hovens, T Kalincik, David Darby, Dennis Velakoulis, Terence J O'Brien

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Open

INTRODUCTION: Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative disorder often neuropathologically associ..

A pilot study of the utility of cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain in differentiating neurodegenerative from psychiatric disorders: A 'C-reactive protein' for psychiatrists and neurologists?

Dhamidhu Eratne, Samantha M Loi, Nirbaanjot Walia, Sarah Farrand, Qiao-Xin Li, Shiji Varghese, Mark Walterfang, Andrew Evans, Ramon Mocellin, Kunal Dhiman, Veer Gupta, Charles B Malpas, Steven Collins, Colin L Masters, Dennis Velakoulis

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

OBJECTIVE: Neurofilament light has shown promise as a biomarker for diagnosis, staging and prognosis in a wide range of neurologic..