Cristina Mei

Clinical Staging for Youth Mental Disorders: Progress in Reforming Diagnosis and Clinical Care

Patrick D McGorry, Cristina Mei

Journal article  |  2021  |  Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Current silo-based diagnostic systems for mental disorders lack utility and fail to fulfil a fundamental purpose of diagnosis: to ..

Severe speech impairment is a distinguishing feature of FOXP1-related disorder

Ruth O Braden, David J Amor, Simon E Fisher, Cristina Mei, Candace T Myers, Heather Mefford, Deepak Gill, Siddharth Srivastava, Lindsay C Swanson, Himanshu Goel, Ingrid E Scheffer, Angela T Morgan

Journal article  |  2021  |  DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

AIM: To delineate the speech and language phenotype of a cohort of individuals with FOXP1-related disorder. METHOD: We administere..

Preventive interventions for individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis: An updated and extended meta-analysis

Cristina Mei, Mark van der Gaag, Barnaby Nelson, Filip Smit, Hok Pan Yuen, Maximus Berger, Marija Krcmar, Paul French, G Paul Amminger, Andreas Bechdolf, Pim Cuijpers, Alison R Yung, Patrick D McGorry

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW

Intervention at the earliest illness stage, in ultra or clinical high-risk individuals, or indicated prevention, currently represe..

Early Intervention for Children Aged 0 to 2 Years With or at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy International Clinical Practice Guideline Based on Systematic Reviews

Catherine Morgan, Linda Fetters, Lars Adde, Nadia Badawi, Ada Bancale, Roslyn N Boyd, Olena Chorna, Giovanni Cioni, Diane L Damiano, Johanna Darrah, Linda S de Vries, Stacey Dusing, Christa Einspieler, Ann-Christin Eliasson, Donna Ferriero, Darcy Fehlings, Hans Forssberg, Andrew M Gordon, Susan Greaves, Andrea Guzzetta, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JAMA PEDIATRICS

Importance: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood physical disability. Early intervention for children younger than 2 y..

Intervention strategies for ultra-high risk for psychosis: Progress in delaying the onset and reducing the impact of first-episode psychosis

Patrick D McGorry, Cristina Mei, Jessica Hartmann, Alison R Yung, Barnaby Nelson

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH

Over a quarter of a century ago, the formulation of the "at risk mental state" and operational criteria to prospectively identify ..

Mental health first aid: strengthening its impact for aid recipients

Cristina Mei, Patrick D McGorry

Journal article  |  2020  |  EVIDENCE-BASED MENTAL HEALTH

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a potentially valuable first response in mental healthcare. MHFA is formulated as an extension o..

Oromotor dysfunction in minimally verbal children with cerebral palsy: characteristics and associated factors

Cristina Mei, Madeleine Hodgson, Sheena Reilly, Bethany Fern, Dinah Reddihough, Fiona Mensah, Lindsay Pennington, Annabel Losche, Angela Morgan

Journal article  |  2020  |  DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION

AIM: To explore the characteristics and associated factors of oromotor dysfunction in minimally verbal children with cerebral pals..

Communication behaviours of children with cerebral palsy who are minimally verbal

Cristina Mei, Bethany Fern, Sheena Reilly, Madeleine Hodgson, Dinah Reddihough, Fiona Mensah, Angela Morgan

Journal article  |  2020  |  CHILD CARE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of population-based studies exploring the communicative behaviours of minimally verbal children with c..

Speech in children with cerebral palsy

Cristina Mei, Sheena Reilly, Molly Bickerton, Fiona Mensah, Samantha Turner, Dhanooshini Kumaranayagam, Lindsay Pennington, Dinah Reddihough, Angela T Morgan

Journal article  |  2020  |  DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

AIM: To examine the frequency, characteristics, and factors associated with speech delay and disorder in a community sample of chi..

Why do psychiatrists doubt the value of early intervention? The power of illusion

Patrick D McGorry, Cristina Mei

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

Objective: Face validity and the best available evidence strongly support the value of early intervention (EI) for psychotic disor..