Amity Watson Watson

Rates, types and associations of sexual risk behaviours and sexually transmitted infections in those with severe mental illness: a scoping review

Meg Stevens, Aswin Ratheesh, Amity Watson, Kate Filia, Brian O Donoghue, Sue M Cotton

Journal article  |  2020  |  PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

The aim of this scoping review was to: (i) determine rates and types of sexual risk behaviours and sexually-transmitted infections..

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, ..

Automated and manual hippocampal segmentation techniques: Comparison of results, reproducibility and clinical applicability.

Sona Hurtz, Nicole Chow, Amity E Watson, Johanne H Somme, Naira Goukasian, Kristy S Hwang, John Morra, David Elashoff, Sujuan Gao, Ronald C Petersen, Paul S Aisen, Paul M Thompson, Liana G Apostolova

Journal article  |  2019  |  Neuroimage Clin

BACKGROUND: Imaging techniques used to measure hippocampal atrophy are key to understanding the clinical progression of Alzheimer'..

The effects of glycine on auditory mismatch negativity in schizophrenia

Lisa-Marie Greenwood, Sumie Leung, Patricia T Michie, Amity Green, Pradeep J Nathan, Paul Fitzgerald, Patrick Johnston, Nadia Solowij, Jayashri Kulkarni, Rodney J Croft

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Glycine increases N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) mediated glutamatergic function. Mismatch negativity (MMN) is a proposed b..

Predictors of functional status at service entry and discharge among young people with first episode psychosis

SM Cotton, M Lambert, BG Schimmelmann, K Filia, V Rayner, L Hides, DL Foley, A Ratheesh, A Watson, P Rodger, PD McGorry, P Conus

Journal article  |  2017  |  SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

OBJECTIVE: Most patients with first episode psychosis (FEP) are neither studying nor employed (have a poor functional status) when..

Evidence for a differential contribution of early perceptual and late cognitive processes during encoding to episodic memory impairment in schizophrenia

Amity E Green, Paul B Fitzgerald, Patrick J Johnston, Pradeep J Nathan, Jayashri Kulkarni, Rodney J Croft

Journal article  |  2017  |  WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVES: Schizophrenia is characterised by significant episodic memory impairment that is thought to be related to problems wit..

White matter correlates of episodic memory encoding and retrieval in schizophrenia

Amity E Green, Rodney J Croft, Jerome J Maller, Paul B Fitzgerald

Journal article  |  2016  |  PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING

Episodic memory (EM) impairments in schizophrenia (SZ) are predictive of functional outcome and are a potential endophenotype of t..

The relevance of attention in schizophrenia P50 paired stimulus

Anna Dalecki, Amity E Green, Stuart J Johnstone, Rodney J Croft

Journal article  |  2016  |  CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

OBJECTIVE: P50 suppression refers to the P50 ERP amplitude-reduction to the second (S2) relative to the first (S1) of identical br..

Comparing 3T and 1.5T MRI for Mapping Hippocampal Atrophy in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

N Chow, KS Hwang, S Hurtz, AE Green, JH Somme, PM Thompson, DA Elashoff, CR Jack, M Weiner, LG Apostolova

Journal article  |  2015  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Prior MR imaging studies, primarily at 1.5T, established hippocampal atrophy as a biomarker for Alzheimer ..

Ventricular Enlargement and its Clinical Correlates in the Imaging Cohort From the ADCS MCI Donepezil/Vitamin E Study

Liana G Apostolova, Sona Babakchanian, Kristy S Hwang, Amity E Green, Dimitar Zlatev, Yi-Yu Chou, Charlie DeCarli, Clifford R Jack, Ronald C Petersen, Paul S Aisen, Jeffrey L Cummings, Arthur W Toga, Paul M Thompson

Journal article  |  2013  |  ALZHEIMER DISEASE & ASSOCIATED DISORDERS

We analyzed the baseline and 3-year T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging data of 110 amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) pa..