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| Mario Alvarez-JimenezSummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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Enhancing treatment fidelity in psychotherapy research: novel approach to measure the components of cognitive behavioural therapy for relapse prevention in first-episode psychosisMario Alvarez-Jimenez
ORYGEN Research Centre and University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:1013-20. 2008..e. therapy phases) of the individual intervention of a psychotherapy clinical trial (the EPISODE II trial)...- On the HORYZON: moderated online social therapy for long-term recovery in first episode psychosisM Alvarez-Jimenez
Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia ORYGEN Youth Health Research Centre, Australia
Schizophr Res 143:143-9. 2013..An Internet-based intervention specifically designed for young people with psychosis may provide a cost-effective alternative to prevent loss of treatment benefits from early intervention... - Internet-based interventions for psychosis: a sneak-peek into the futureMario Alvarez-Jimenez
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Psychiatr Clin North Am 35:735-47. 2012..This article reviews the current evidence on Internet-based interventions for psychosis, including potential benefits, risks, and future challenges. Recommendations are proposed for developing future online interventions for psychosis... - Risk factors for relapse following treatment for first episode psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studiesM Alvarez-Jimenez
Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia ORYGEN Youth Health Research Centre, Australia
Schizophr Res 139:116-28. 2012..The aim of this study was to systematically compile and analyse risk factors for and rates of relapse in the early course of psychosis... - Road to full recovery: longitudinal relationship between symptomatic remission and psychosocial recovery in first-episode psychosis over 7.5 yearsM Alvarez-Jimenez
Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Psychol Med 42:595-606. 2012..This study sought to: (1) examine the relationships between FFR and symptom remission in FEP over 7.5 years; (2) test two different models of the interaction between both variables... - Prediction of a single psychotic episode: a 7.5-year, prospective study in first-episode psychosisM Alvarez-Jimenez
Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Schizophr Res 125:236-46. 2011..5-year follow-up; and 2) to identify significant predictors for this subgroup independent of potential confounders... 
Preventing the second episode: a systematic review and meta-analysis of psychosocial and pharmacological trials in first-episode psychosisMario Alvarez-Jimenez
Department of Psychiatry, Marques de Valdecilla Public Foundation Research Institute FMV IFIMAV Av Valdecilla s n, 39009, Santander, Spain
Schizophr Bull 37:619-30. 2011..This study sought to undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to determine the effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to prevent relapse in FEP patients...- Prevention of antipsychotic-induced weight gain with early behavioural intervention in first-episode psychosis: 2-year results of a randomized controlled trialMario Alvarez-Jimenez
Marques de Valdecilla Public Foundation Research Institute FMV IFIMAV, Santander, Spain
Schizophr Res 116:16-9. 2010..Weight-management interventions may need to be offered for longer periods to maintain preventative effects. Alternatively, booster sessions may need to be regularly delivered after intervention completion... 
Predictors of adherence to cognitive-behavioural therapy in first-episode psychosisMario Alvarez-Jimenez
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Can J Psychiatry 54:710-8. 2009..To investigate predictors of adherence with a cognitive-behavioural intervention in first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients...- Differential predictors of critical comments and emotional over-involvement in first-episode psychosisM Alvarez-Jimenez
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Med 40:63-72. 2010..Carers were reassessed at 7 months follow-up... - Non-pharmacological management of antipsychotic-induced weight gain: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trialsMario Alvarez-Jimenez
ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 193:101-7. 2008..Antipsychotic-induced weight gain is a major concern in the treatment of psychosis. The efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions as well as the optimal intervention approach for this side-effect remain unclear... - Antipsychotic-induced weight gain in chronic and first-episode psychotic disorders: a systematic critical reappraisalMario Alvarez-Jimenez
ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
CNS Drugs 22:547-62. 2008..Although antipsychotics present idiosyncratic patterns of weight gain, they may also generate similar absolute gains... - Family outcomes from a randomized control trial of relapse prevention therapy in first-episode psychosisJohn F M Gleeson
University of Melbourne Psychology Clinic, 14 20 Blackwood Street, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3010
J Clin Psychiatry 71:475-83. 2010..Secondary hypotheses were that RPT would be associated with reduced expressed emotion and improved psychological distress... - Attenuation of antipsychotic-induced weight gain with early behavioral intervention in drug-naive first-episode psychosis patients: A randomized controlled trialMario Alvarez-Jimenez
University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla Clinical and Social Psychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
J Clin Psychiatry 67:1253-60. 2006.... - Cognitive dimensions in first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disordersCesar Gonzalez-Blanch
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Santander, Spain
J Psychiatr Res 41:968-77. 2007..We aimed to characterize the basic cognitive functioning of a representative sample of patients with a first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders... - Preserved orbitofrontal function in first-episode schizophrenia: further evidence from the object alternation paradigmCesar Gonzalez-Blanch
Psychiatry Research Unit of Cantabria, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:67-70. 2008..There were no significant differences between patients and control subjects with respect to the OAT. This finding suggests that the OFC function, as measured by decision-making tasks, is preserved in the early phases of schizophrenia... - Cognitive functioning in the early course of first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders: timing and patternsCesar Gonzalez-Blanch
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Department of Psychiatry, planta 2a, Edificio 2 de Noviembre, Avda Valdecilla s n, 39008, Santander, Spain
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 256:364-71. 2006..The aim of this study was to examine possible cognitive changes throughout the early course of schizophrenia spectrum disorders... - Cognitive functioning and negative symptoms in first episode schizophrenia: different patterns of correlatesJose Manuel Rodríguez-Sánchez
University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Neurotox Res 14:227-35. 2008..The widely described relationship between negative symptoms and executive impairments in schizophrenia appears to be mediated by likely dysfunctions in the speed of processing instead of by working memory impairment... - Lack of association between clinical and cognitive change in first-episode psychosis: the first 6 weeks of treatmentCesar Gonzalez-Blanch
Mental Health Centre, University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Can J Psychiatry 53:839-47. 2008.... - A randomized controlled trial of relapse prevention therapy for first-episode psychosis patientsJohn F M Gleeson
Department of Psychology, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
J Clin Psychiatry 70:477-86. 2009..This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a psychosocial treatment designed to prevent the second episode of psychosis compared with standardized early psychosis care... - Weight gain induced by haloperidol, risperidone and olanzapine after 1 year: findings of a randomized clinical trial in a drug-naïve populationRocio Perez-Iglesias
Department of Psychiatry, Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital, Avda Valdecilla s n, 39008, University of Cantabria, Spain
Schizophr Res 99:13-22. 2008..There is little information about weight gain induced by antipsychotics at long-term... - Targeted intervention to improve monitoring of antipsychotic-induced weight gain and metabolic disturbance in first episode psychosisAndrew Thompson
ORYGEN Youth Health, 35 Poplar Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 45:740-8. 2011..We aimed to investigate whether a targeted intervention could improve levels of monitoring in a first episode psychosis clinic... - A systematic review of relapse measurement in randomized controlled trials of relapse prevention in first-episode psychosisJohn F M Gleeson
Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne Psychology Clinic, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Schizophr Res 119:79-88. 2010..There is an urgent need for a standardized, universally adopted set of criteria for psychotic relapse with appropriate specification of measurement instruments for use in future RCTs... - Patient predictors of symptom and functional outcome following cognitive behaviour therapy or befriending in first-episode psychosisKelly Allott
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Schizophr Res 132:125-30. 2011..The current study aimed to examine patient-related predictors of symptom and functional outcome following CBT and Befriending in first-episode psychosis (FEP)... - Promoting physical health in youth mental health services: ensuring routine monitoring of weight and metabolic indices in a first episode psychosis clinicSarah Hetrick
Centre of Excellence, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 18:451-5. 2010..Such an approach is more likely to ensure that measures to improve practice are successful, are meaningful for the clinicians involved, and become imbedded in the clinical practice of the service... - Childhood trauma increases the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in response to first-episode psychosisSarah Bendall
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 46:35-9. 2012..To investigate the relationship between childhood trauma, post-traumatic stress symptoms due to the experience of childhood trauma, and post-traumatic stress symptoms due to the experience of psychosis... - Outcome in early-onset schizophrenia revisited: findings from the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre long-term follow-up studyG Paul Amminger
Orygen Youth Health Centre for Youth Mental Health, 35 Poplar Road, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
Schizophr Res 131:112-9. 2011..To compare the long-term outcome in individuals with early-onset (before age 18) and adult-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorder who were initially diagnosed and treated in the same clinical center... - Prefrontal cognitive functions in stabilized first-episode patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a dissociation between dorsolateral and orbitofrontal functioningJose Manuel Rodríguez-Sánchez
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Planta 2 a, Edificio 2 de Noviembre Avda Valdecilla s n, 39008 Santander, Spain
Schizophr Res 77:279-88. 2005..The OFC functions are unimpaired at the early phases of psychosis and in contrast there is a significant deficit in DLPFC functions in first-episode of schizophrenia... - Quality of life in patients who have remitted from their first episode of psychosisS M Cotton
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Schizophr Res 121:259-65. 2010..Quality of life (QoL) in first-episode psychosis (FEP) is strongly related to levels of psychopathology and may vary as a function of illness phase. QoL remains poorly understood in FEP... - Using internet enabled mobile devices and social networking technologies to promote exercise as an intervention for young first episode psychosis patientsEoin Killackey
Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
BMC Psychiatry 11:80. 2011..The aim of the study is to test the feasibility and acceptability of an exercise program that will be delivered via internet enabled mobile devices and social networking technologies among young people with first episode psychosis...