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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)

171 Scholarly works
15 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 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

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

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Parsing Sleep and Circadian Factors in Risk for Psychosis to Inform Pathways and Phenotypes
  • 2026

    Journal article

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

    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
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Immunometabolic dysregulation in depression predates illness onset and is associated with lower brain gray matter volume
    DOI: 10.1038/s44220-025-00538-9
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Functional Coupling and Longitudinal Outcome Prediction in First-Episode Psychosis
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100589
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Towards an Integrative Account of Potential Mechanisms Mediating the Path From Sleep Dysfunction to Hallucinations
    DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbaf107
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Modifiable Parental Factors and Adolescent Sleep During Early Adolescence
    DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.31333

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2023

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep and Adolescent Mental Health

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