Dennis Velakoulis

Mortality in dementia is predicted by older age of onset and cognitive presentation

Samantha M Loi, Paraskevi Tsoukra, Zhiben Chen, Pierre Wibawa, Tamara Mijuskovic, Dhamidhu Eratne, Maria A Di Biase, Andrew Evans, Sarah Farrand, Wendy Kelso, Anita MY Goh, Mark Walterfang, Dennis Velakoulis

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

OBJECTIVES: Survival information in dementia is important for future planning and service provision. There have been limited Austr..

A call to action for the improved identification, diagnosis, treatment and care of people with young onset dementia

Monica Cations, Samantha M Loi, Brian Draper, Kate Swaffer, Dennis Velakoulis, Anita MY Goh

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

Visiting and observing: reflections on clinical observer visits to Neuropsychiatry, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Jeffrey Looi, Dennis Velakoulis

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVES: To describe and provide experiential reflections on a model of continuing professional development in psychiatry for d..

Deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder should be an accepted therapy in Australia

Philip E Mosley, Dennis Velakoulis, Sarah Farrand, Rodney Marsh, Adith Mohan, David Castle, Perminder S Sachdev

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

Deep brain stimulation has shown promise for the treatment of severe, treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. With the..

Odor Identification Testing Can Assist in the Clinical Distinction Between Psychiatric Disorders and Neurological/Neurodegenerative Disorders

Ioanna Pachi, Andrew H Evans, Samantha M Loi, Dhamidhu Eratne, Charles B Malpas, Mark Walterfang, Sarah Farrand, Wendy Kelso, Leonidas Stefanis, Dennis Velakoulis

Journal article  |  2021  |  ALZHEIMER DISEASE & ASSOCIATED DISORDERS

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The aim was to identify whether performance on olfactory identification can distinguish neurological/neurod..

Psychiatric and cognitive characteristics of older adults admitted to a Video-EEG monitoring (VEM) unit

Anthony Hew, Michael Lloyd, Genevieve Rayner, Alice Matson, Maria Rychkova, Rashida Ali, Toby Winton-Brown, Piero Perucca, Patrick Kwan, Terence J O'Brien, Dennis Velakoulis, Charles B Malpas, Samantha M Loi

Journal article  |  2021  |  EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical, psychiatric, and cognitive characteristics of older with younger patients presenting to a vide..

Differential involvement of hippocampal subfields in Niemann-Pick type C disease: a case-control study

Pierre Wibawa, Florian Kurth, Eileen Luders, Christos Pantelis, Vanessa L Cropley, Maria A Di Biase, Dennis Velakoulis, Mark Walterfang

Journal article  |  2021  |  METABOLIC BRAIN DISEASE

Hippocampal brain regions are strongly implicated in Niemann Pick type C disease (NPC), but little is known regarding distinct sub..

Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis An ENIGMA Working Group Mega-analysis

Maria Jalbrzikowski, Rebecca A Hayes, Stephen J Wood, Dorte Nordholm, Juan H Zhou, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Peter J Uhlhaas, Tsutomu Takahashi, Gisela Sugranyes, Yoo Bin Kwak, Daniel H Mathalon, Naoyuki Katagiri, Christine I Hooker, Lukasz Smigielski, Tiziano Colibazzi, Esther Via, Jinsong Tang, Shinsuke Koike, Paul E Rasser, Chantal Michel, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JAMA PSYCHIATRY

Importance: The ENIGMA clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis initiative, the largest pooled neuroimaging sample of individuals at..

The Three Glycotypes in the London Classification System of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Differ in Disease Duration

Blair Ney, Dhamidhu Eratne, Victoria Lewis, Luke Ney, Qiao-Xin Li, Christiane Stehmann, Steven Collins, Dennis Velakoulis

Journal article  |  2021  |  MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is the most common form of CJD and is believed to be caused by the misfolding and aggreg..

Brain hypometabolic changes in 14 adolescent-adult patients with Niemann-Pick disease type C assessed by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography

Theodore Y Lau, Yung Hsiang Kao, HB Toh, Dinesh Sivaratnam, Meir Lichtenstein, Dennis Velakoulis, Mark Walterfang

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

OBJECTIVE: Niemann Pick disease type C (NPC) is a rare progressive neurovisceral lysosomal disorder caused by autosomal recessive ..