Amity Watson Watson

A protocol for the first episode psychosis outcome study (FEPOS): >= 15 year follow-up after treatment at the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Sue Cotton, Kate Filia, Amity Watson, Andrew J Mackinnon, Leanne Hides, John FM Gleeson, Michael Berk, Philippe Conus, Martin Lambert, Benno Schimmelmann, Helen Herrman, Victoria Rayner, Aswin Ratheesh, Patrick D McGorry

Journal article  |  2021  |  EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY

BACKGROUND: Specialist early intervention (SEI) service models are designed to treat symptoms, promote social and vocational recov..

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 ..