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Email

vcropley@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Principal Research Fellow
Centre for Youth Mental Health (Orygen)
Education
PhD
Swinburne University of Technology
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Swinburne University of Technology
Bachelors Degree
Swinburne University of Technology
ORCID

0000-0003-0029-1525

A/Prof Vanessa Cropley

Principal Research Fellow
Centre for Youth Mental Health (Orygen)

175 Scholarly works
16 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Cognitive correlates of Antisaccade Task performance in bipolar disorder
    DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2026.117309
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Cardiovascular imaging reveals pathways linking cardiovascular risk factors to brain aging and cognition
    DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2026.04.002
  • 2026

    Journal article

    735. Immunometabolic Dysregulation in Depression Predates Illness Onset and is Associated With Lower Brain Gray Matter Volume
    DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2026.03.969
  • 2026

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Parsing Sleep and Circadian Factors in Risk for Psychosis to Inform Pathways and Phenotypes
  • 2021

    Journal article

    High-resolution connectomic fingerprints: Mapping neural identity and behavior
    DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117695
  • 2020

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Refining the Synaptic Pruning Hypothesis of Psychosis in Humans
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    The Complement Cascade, Cortical Thinning and the Development of Psychosis
Vanessa Cropley

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    752. Impaired Peripheral Organ Function in First-Episode Drug Naïve Mental Illnesses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2026.03.986
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Structural covariance network topology in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: the ENIGMA-CHR Study
    DOI: 10.1038/s41380-025-03304-6
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Cognitive correlates of brain metabolites measured by MRS along the psychosis continuum: systematic review
    DOI: 10.1016/j.nsa.2025.105797
  • 2026

    Journal article

    AI-based neuroanatomical prediction of individual cytokine profiles in schizophrenia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.nsa.2025.106074
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Local chemoarchitecture explains widespread lower cortical thickness associated with clinical high risk for psychosis
    DOI: 10.1038/s41380-026-03586-4
  • 2026

    Journal article

    DGAMLSS: An exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts
    DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf625
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Widespread synaptic density loss in schizophrenia follows molecular and network architecture
    DOI: 10.1038/s41380-026-03717-x

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2023

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep and Adolescent Mental Health

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