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Categories, dimensions and prototypes: critical issues for psychiatric classificationAssen Jablensky
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Psychopathology 38:201-5. 2005..The advantages and disadvantages of each option are outlined, highlighting the need for new research focusing on these critical issues...- Subtyping schizophrenia: implications for genetic researchA Jablensky
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
Mol Psychiatry 11:815-36. 2006.... 
What did the WHO studies really find?Assen Jablensky
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia, MRF Building, 50 Murray Street, Perth 6000, Australia
Schizophr Bull 34:253-5. 2008- Research methods in psychiatric epidemiology: an overviewAssen Jablensky
The University of Western Australia, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Perth WA 6000, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:297-310. 2002..To provide an introduction to the concepts and methods of psychiatric epidemiology for non-specialist readers... - Living in a Kraepelinian world: Kraepelin's impact on modern psychiatryAssen Jablensky
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Hist Psychiatry 18:381-8. 2007..This paper draws on those publications to assess Kraepelin's legacy and his influence on contemporary psychiatric theory and practice... - The diagnostic concept of schizophrenia: its history, evolution, and future prospectsAssen Jablensky
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Dialogues Clin Neurosci 12:271-87. 2010..The dissection of the syndrome with the aid of endophenotypes is beginning to be perceived as a promising approach in schizophrenia genetics... - The classification of personality disorders: critical review and need for rethinkingAssen Jablensky
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Psychopathology 35:112-6. 2002.... - Researching psychiatry in Western AustraliaAssen Jablensky
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, University of Western Australia School of Psychiatry and Clincal Neurosciences, Mt Claremont, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:306-15. 2004..To provide an overview of the development, approaches and main research projects of the Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry (CCRN) in Perth, Western Australia... - Classification of nonschizophrenic psychotic disorders: a historical perspectiveA Jablensky
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Western Australia, 50 Murray Street, Perth WA6000, Australia
Curr Psychiatry Rep 3:326-31. 2001..Special attention to the refinement of the diagnosis and classification of the acute and transient psychotic disorders in future versions of the two classifications will be warranted... - Pregnancy, delivery, and neonatal complications in a population cohort of women with schizophrenia and major affective disordersAssen V Jablensky
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 162:79-91. 2005..This study ascertained the incidence of complications during pregnancy, labor, and delivery and the neonatal characteristics of infants born to women with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression in a population-based cohort... 
Polymorphisms associated with normal memory variation also affect memory impairment in schizophreniaA Jablensky
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry and School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Genes Brain Behav 10:410-7. 2011..Our study supports the utility of parsing the broad phenotype of schizophrenia into component cognitive endophenotypes that reduce heterogeneity and enable the capture of potentially important genetic associations...- Prevalence and incidence of schizophrenia spectrum disorders: implications for preventionA Jablensky
Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:S26-34; discussion S35-8. 2000..It also examines the outcomes of a hypothetical model of prevention based on a two-stage risk segmenting approach... - Psychotic disorders in urban areas: an overview of the Study on Low Prevalence DisordersA Jablensky
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:221-36. 2000.... - The conflict of the nosologists: views on schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness in the early part of the 20th centuryA Jablensky
University Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Schizophr Res 39:95-100; discussion 159. 1999..The lesson to be drawn is that nosological arguments should be put on hold until basic understanding is gained of the specific mechanisms of syndromogenesis across diagnostic boundaries... - The nature of psychiatric classification: issues beyond ICD-10 and DSM-IVA Jablensky
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 33:137-44. 1999.... - The 100-year epidemiology of schizophreniaA Jablensky
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Western Australia, Perth
Schizophr Res 28:111-25. 1997.... - Modifiable risk factors for hospitalization among people with psychosis: evidence from the National Study of Low Prevalence (Psychotic) DisordersVera Morgan
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia, Level 3, Medical Research Foundation Building, Rear 50 Murray Street, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:683-90. 2006..The aim of this study was to develop a model to determine modifiable predictors of hospitalization using data from the Australian National Study of Low Prevalence (Psychotic) Disorders... - The Australian National Survey of Psychotic Disorders: profile of psychosocial disability and its risk factorsO Gureje
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne St Vincent's Mental Health Service and North Western Mental Health, Coburg, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Med 32:639-47. 2002..Disablement seems to reflect, in part, a diathesis of poor pre-morbid functioning and less than optimal response to treatment of the disorder... - Neuregulin 3 (NRG3) as a susceptibility gene in a schizophrenia subtype with florid delusions and relatively spared cognitionB Morar
Centre for Medical Research Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
Mol Psychiatry 16:860-6. 2011..The two single-nucleotide polymorphisms are in close proximity to the alternative first exons of the NRG3-a, -b and -d isoforms, of which the human brain-specific NRG-b appears to be the most interesting candidate... - Dementia praecox and manic-depressive insanity in 1908: a Grade of Membership analysis of the Kraepelinian dichotomyA Jablensky
University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 245:202-9. 1995..The possibility is discussed that catatonia in Kraepelin's time shared certain clinical features with the later diagnostic groupings of schizoaffective disorder, cycloid psychoses, and other "atypical" forms of psychotic illnesses... - Defining disability in psychosis: performance of the diagnostic interview for psychosis-disability module (DIP-DIS) in the Australian National Survey of Psychotic DisordersO Gureje
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 35:846-51. 2001..Future work should examine its sensitivity to change... - 'Social dysmetria' in first-episode psychosis patientsF Waters
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Graylands Hospital, Perth, Australia
Acta Psychiatr Scand 123:475-84. 2011..In this study, we examined the social interactive skills of patients with first-episode psychosis during an interview, together with changes in performance over time... - The disease entity in psychiatry: fact or fiction?A Jablensky
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci 21:255-64. 2012.... - Phenotypic markers as risk factors in schizophrenia: neurocognitive functionsP T Michie
The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:S74-85. 2000..Of all the risk markers that have been identified, the most promising are deficits in sustained attention... - Epidemiology of schizophrenia: the global burden of disease and disabilityA Jablensky
The University of Western Australia, Department of Psychiatry, Perth, Australien
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 250:274-85. 2000..Research likely to result in new insights should focus on the population distribution and behavioural effects of potential risk factors and markers suggested by biological and genetic research... - Linkage analysis of candidate regions using a composite neurocognitive phenotype correlated with schizophreniaJ F Hallmayer
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Mol Psychiatry 8:511-23. 2003.... - Promoter polymorphisms in two overlapping 6p25 genes implicate mitochondrial proteins in cognitive deficit in schizophreniaA Jablensky
1 Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia 2 School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
Mol Psychiatry 17:1328-39. 2012..LYRM4 downregulation may be one of the mechanisms involved in inefficient oxidative phosphorylation and oxidative stress, increasingly recognised as contributors to schizophrenia pathogenesis... - Comprehensive analysis of tagging sequence variants in DTNBP1 shows no association with schizophrenia or with its composite neurocognitive endophenotypesKirsten Peters
Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 147:1159-66. 2008..The framework and results of this study should facilitate further attempts at re-analysis of DTNBP1, in terms of standardized approaches to both phenotype definition and analysis of genetic variation... - Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnosesRobert Kendell
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Am J Psychiatry 160:4-12. 2003..The meaning of the terms "validity" and "utility" as they apply to psychiatric diagnoses is examined... - Psychiatric out-patients seen once only in South Verona and Western Australia: a comparative case-register studyAlberto Rossi
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:414-22. 2005..This study examined variables associated with having a once-only contact with the out-patient department of two community mental health services in Italy and Australia... - Antipsychotic use in Australia: the patients' perspectiveDavid Castle
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Western Australia, 16 The Terrace, Fremantle 6160, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:633-41. 2002..The findings have implications for clinicians, and can inform treatment options in people with psychotic disorders... - The genetic deconstruction of psychosisMichael J Owen
Department of Psychological Medicine, The School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Schizophr Bull 33:905-11. 2007.... - Demographic and clinical correlates of comorbid substance use disorders in psychosis: multivariate analyses from an epidemiological sampleDavid J Kavanagh
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia
Schizophr Res 66:115-24. 2004..CONCLUSION: The profile of substance misuse in psychosis shows clinical and demographic gradients that can inform treatment and preventive research... - Examining encoding imprecision in spatial working memory in schizophreniaJohanna C Badcock
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry Graylands Hospital and School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, John XXIII Avenue, Mt Claremont, WA, 6010, Australia
Schizophr Res 100:144-52. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine these multiple aspects of encoding in patients with schizophrenia using a modified delayed response task... - Re: mortality and mental illnessDavid Lawrence
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:1048. 2005 - Dimensions of intelligence in schizophrenia: evidence from patients with preserved, deteriorated and compromised intellectJohanna C Badcock
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
J Psychiatr Res 39:11-9. 2005..These findings suggest that high functioning patients with schizophrenia exhibit enduring cognitive difficulties that may impact on their ability to benefit from rehabilitation interventions... - Laterality phenotypes in patients with schizophrenia, their siblings and controls: associations with clinical and cognitive variablesMilan Dragovic
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Claremont, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 187:221-8. 2005..Various behavioural indices of brain lateralisation significantly intercorrelate, but current research in this area still focuses on single behavioural asymmetries, such as handedness... - Schizotypy and mixed-handedness revisitedMilan Dragovic
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Psychiatry Res 136:143-52. 2005..In contrast, there was an expected significant but low in magnitude association between loss of hand dominance and the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire factor of Cognitive Perceptual Dysfunction in schizophrenia patients... - Genetic evidence for a distinct subtype of schizophrenia characterized by pervasive cognitive deficitJoachim F Hallmayer
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Am J Hum Genet 77:468-76. 2005.... - Estimating premorbid intelligence in schizophrenia patients: demographically based approachMilan Dragovic
Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Claremont, WA, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:814-8. 2008..The aim of the present study was to provide a useful and quick estimate of premorbid intelligence that can be used in the population of schizophrenia patients... - Psychotic disorders in Australia: patients respond to national survey resultsVera Morgan
Eur Psychiatry 18:142. 2003 - A novel mouse Chr5 locus Diht controls dopamine-induced hypothermiaChris W Stoddart
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and UWA Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Monash Avenue, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia
Mamm Genome 15:901-13. 2004..The novel locus, Diht, has been mapped proximal to the Flv locus on a distal part of mouse Chr5 between microsatellite markers D5Mit41 and D5Mit158... - Resolving schizophrenia's CATCH22Assen Jablensky
Nat Genet 36:674-5. 2004 - The long and winding road of schizophrenia researchAssen Jablensky
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 14:179-83. 2005 - Genomewide scan and fine-mapping linkage studies in four European samples with bipolar affective disorder suggest a new susceptibility locus on chromosome 1p35-p36 and provides further evidence of loci on chromosome 4q31 and 6q24Johannes Schumacher
Institute of Human Genetics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, D-53105 Bonn, Germany
Am J Hum Genet 77:1102-11. 2005.... - The first genomewide interaction and locus-heterogeneity linkage scan in bipolar affective disorder: strong evidence of epistatic effects between loci on chromosomes 2q and 6qRami Abou Jamra
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Am J Hum Genet 81:974-86. 2007..Our results provide systematic insights in the framework of BPAD epistasis and locus heterogeneity, which should facilitate gene identification by the use of more-comprehensive cloning strategies...