Hot Off the Press: August 2017

View a range of publications from the academic team of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences during the previous calendar month.

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Anderson, V., Beauchamp, M. H., Yeates, K. O., Crossley, L., Ryan, N., Hearps, S. J. C., & Catroppa, C. (2017). Social competence at two years after childhood traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34, 2261-2271.

Andrewes, H. E., Hulbert, C., Cotton, S. M., Betts, J., & Chanen, A. M. (2017). An ecological momentary assessment investigation of complex and conflicting emotions in youth with borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research, 252, 102-110.

Antinori, A., Carter, O. L., & Smillie, L. D. (2017). Seeing it both ways: Openness to experience and binocular rivalry suppression. Journal of Research in Personality, 68, 15-22.

Bhide, S., Sciberras, E., Anderson, V., Hazell, P., & Nicholson, J. M. (2017). Association between parenting style and social outcomes in children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An 18-month longitudinal study. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 38, 369-377.

Blake, M., Schwartz, O., Waloszek, J. M., Raniti, M., Simmons, J. G., Murray, G., Blake, L., Dahl, R. E., Bootzin, R., McMakin, D. L., Dudgeon, P., Trinder, J., & Allen, N. B. (2017). The SENSE Study: Treatment mechanisms of a cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based group sleep improvement intervention for at-risk adolescents. Sleep, 40.

Bryant, R. A., Creamer, M., O'Donnell, M., Forbes, D., Felmingham, K. L., Silove, D., Malhi, G., van Hoof, M., McFarlane, A. C., & Nickerson, A. (2017). Separation from parents during childhood trauma predicts adult attachment security and post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological Medicine, 47, 2028-2035.

Bryson, A., Carter, O., Norman, T., & Kanaan, R. (2017). 5-HT2A Agonists: A novel therapy for functional neurological disorders? International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 20, 422-427.

Buckley, R. F., Schultz, A. P., Hedden, T., Papp, K. V., Hanseeuw, B. J., Marshall, G., Sepulcre, J., Smith, E. E., Rentz, DM., Johnson, K. A., Sperling, R. A., & Chhatwal, J. P. (2017). Functional network integrity presages cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease. Neurology, 89, 29-37.

Byrne, M. L., Horne, S., O'Brien-Simpson, N. M., Walsh, K. A., Reynolds, E. C., Schwartz, O .S., Whittle, S., Simmons, J. G., Sheeber, L., & Allen, N. B. (2017). Associations between observed parenting behavior and adolescent inflammation two and a half years later in a community sample. Health Psychology, 36, 641-651.

Carter, O., Bennett, D., Nash, T., Arnold, S., Brown, L., Cai, R. Y., Allan, Z., Dluzniak, A., McAnally, K., Burr, D., & Sundram, S. (2017). Sensory integration deficits support a dimensional view of psychosis and are not limited to schizophrenia. Translational Psychiatry, 7.

Cavuoto, M. G., Ong, B., Pike, K. E., Nicholas, C. L., & Kinsella, G. J. (2017). Naturalistic prospective memory in older adults: Predictors of performance on a habitual task. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 27, 744-758.

Chan, Y. M., Pianta, M. J., Bode, S., & McKendrick, A. M. (2017). Spatio-temporal patterns of event-related potentials related to audiovisual synchrony judgments in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 55, 38-48.

Chye, Y., Solowij, N., Suo, C., Batalla, A., Cousijn, J., Goudriaan, A. E., Martin-Santos, R., Whittle, S., Lorenzetti, V., & Yucel, M. (2017). Orbitofrontal and caudate volumes in cannabis users: A multi-site mega-analysis comparing dependent versus non-dependent users. Psychopharmacology, 234, 1985-1995.

Corbett, E. A., & Smith, P. L. (2017). the magical number one-on-square-root-two: The double-target detection deficit in brief visual displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, 43, 1376-1396.

Cori, J. M., Thornton, T., O'Donoghue, F. J., Rochford, P. D., White, D. P., Trinder, J., & Jordan, A. S. (2017). Arousal-induced hypocapnia does not reduce genioglossus activity in obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep, 40.

Cotter, J., Lin, A., Drake, R. J., Thompson, A., Nelson, B., McGorry, P., Wood, S. J., & Yung, A. R. (2017). Long-term employment among people at ultra-high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 184, 26-31.

Dekhtyar, M., Papp, K. V., Buckley, R., Jacobs, H. I. L., Schultz, A. P., Johnson, K. A., Sperling, R. A., & Rentz, D. M. (2017). Neuroimaging markers associated with maintenance of optimal memory performance in late-life. Neuropsychologia, 100, 164-170.

Dileo, J. F., Brewer, W., Northam, E., Yucel, M., & Anderson, V. (2017). Investigating the neurodevelopmental mediators of aggression in children with a history of child maltreatment: An exploratory field study. Child Neuropsychology, 23, 655-677.

Fletcher, R., May, C., Lambkin, F. K., Gemmill, A. W., Cann, W., Nicholson, J. M., Rawlinson, C., Milgrom, J., Highet, N., Foureur, M., Bennett, E., & Skinner, G. (2017). SMS4dads: Providing information and support to new fathers through mobile phones - a pilot study. Advances in Mental Health, 15, 121-131.

Griffiths, S., Murray, S. B., Bentley, C., Gratwick-Sarll, K., Harrison, C., & Mond, J. M. (2017). Sex differences in quality of life impairment associated with body dissatisfaction in adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 61, 77-82.

Herniman, S. E., Allott, K. A., Killackey, E., Hester, R., & Cotton, S. M. (2017). The psychometric validity of the Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale. (CES-D) in first episode schizophrenia spectrum. Psychiatry Research, 252, 16-22.

Hicks, A., Cori, J. M., Jordan, A. S., Nicholas, C. L., Kubin, L., Semmler, J. G., Malhotra, A., McSharry, D. G. P., & Trinder, J. A. (2017). Mechanisms of the deep, slow-wave, sleep-related increase of upper airway muscle tone in healthy humans. Journal of Applied Physiology, 122, 1304-1312.

Holland, E., Koval, P., Stratemeyer, M., Thomson, F., & Haslam, N. (2017). Sexual objectification in women's daily lives: A smartphone ecological momentary assessment study. British Journal of Social Psychology, 56, 314-333.

Imlach, A. R., Ward, D. D., Vickers, J. C., Summers, M. J., & Felmingham, K. L. (2017). Association between the serotonin transporter gene polymorphism and verbal learning in older adults is moderated by gender. Translational Psychiatry, 7.

Kaess, M., Whittle, S., Simmons, J. G., Jovev, M., Allen, N. B., & Chanen, A. M. (2017). The interaction of childhood maltreatment, sex, and borderline personality features in the prediction of the cortisol awakening response in adolescents. Psychopathology, 50, 188-194.

Kaufmann, L. M., Sojo, V. E., Genat, A. E., Wheeler, M. A., & Wood, R. E. (2017). Implicit and explicit motivated self-perception as hypothesis-driven self-construal. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 252-257.

Korrel, H., Mueller, K. L., Silk, T., Anderson, V., & Sciberras, E. (2017). Research Review: Language problems in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A systematic meta-analytic review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 640-654.

Ku, C. P., Tucker, M. R., Laugesen, M., McKinlay, A., & Grace, R. C. (2017). Smokers' elevated rates of delay discounting are independent of differences in primary personality dimensions. Psychological Record, 67, 213-221.

Kuzmina, E., & Weekes, B. S. (2017). Role of cognitive control in language deficits in different types of aphasia. Aphasiology, 31, 765-792.

Landry, S. A., Joosten, S. A., Eckert, D. J., Jordan, A. S., Sands, S. A., White, D. P., Malhotra, A., Wellman, A., Hamilton, G. S., & Edwards, B. A. (2017). Therapeutic CPAP level predicts upper airway collapsibility in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep, 40.

Lloyd, B., Macdonald, J. A., Youssef, G. J., Knight, T., Letcher, P., Sanson, A., & Olsson, C. A. (2017). Negative reactivity and parental warmth in early adolescence and depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood. Australian Journal of Psychology, 69, 121-129.

Manikas, V., Babl, F. E., Hearps, S., Dooley, J., & Anderson, V. (2017). Impact of exercise on clinical symptom report and neurocognition after concussion in children and adolescents. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34, 1932-1938.

Mechelli, A., Lin, A., Wood, S., McGorry, P., Amminger, P., Tognin, S., McGuire, P., Young, J., Nelson, B., & Yung, A. (2017). Using clinical information to make individualized prognostic predictions in people at ultra high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 184, 32-38.

Miller, T., Pfau, J., Sonenberg, L., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Logics of common ground. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 58, 859-904.

Morawetz, C., Bode, S., Baudewig, J., & Heekeren, H. R. (2017). Effective amygdala-prefrontal connectivity predicts individual differences in successful emotion regulation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 569-585.

Mundy, L. K., Canterford, L., Tucker, D., Bayer, J., Romaniuk, H., Sawyer, S., Lietz, P., Redmond, G., Proimos, J., Allen, N., & Patton, G. (2017). Academic performance in primary school children with common emotional and behavioral problems. Journal of School Health, 87, 593-601.

Murphy, S. C. (2017). A hands-on guide to conducting psychological research on Twitter. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 396-412.

Obschonka, M., Stuetzer, M., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2017). Did strategic bombing in the Second World War lead to "German angst'? A Large-scale empirical test across 89 German cities. European Journal of Personality, 31, 234-257.

Piotrowska, P. J., Tully, L. A., Lenroot, R., Kimonis, E., Hawes, D., Moul, C., Frick, P. J., Anderson, V., & Dadds, M. R. (2017). Mothers, fathers, and parental systems: A conceptual model of parental engagement in programmes for child mental health-connect, attend, participate, enact (CAPE). Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 20, 146-161.

Rayner, G. (2017). The contribution of cognitive networks to depression in epilepsy. Epilepsy Currents, 17, 78-83.

Rayner, G., & Tailby, C. (2017). Current concepts of memory disorder in epilepsy: Edging towards a network account. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 17.

Schmaal, L., Yucel, M., Ellis, R., Vijayakumar, N., Simmons, J. G., Allen, N. B., & Whittle, S. (2017). Brain structural signatures of adolescent depressive symptom trajectories: A longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of the American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, 56, 593-601.

Schultz, A. P., Chhatwal, J. P., Hedden, T., Mormino, E. C., Hanseeuw, B. J., Sepulcre, J., Huijbers, W., LaPoint, M., Buckley, R. F., Johnson, K. A., & Sperling, R. A (2017). Phases of hyperconnectivity and hypoconnectivity in the default mode and salience networks track with amyloid and tau in clinically normal individuals. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 4323-4331.

Simmons, J. G., Schwartz, O. S., Bray, K., Deane, C., Pozzi, E., Richmond, S., Smith, J., Vijayakumar, N., Byrne, M. L., Seal, M. L., Yap, M. B. H., Allen, N. B., & Whittle, S. L. (2017). Study protocol: Families and childhood transitions study. (FACTS) - a longitudinal investigation of the role of the family environment in brain development and risk for mental health disorders in community based children. BMC Pediatrics, 17.

Smart, D., Youssef, G. J., Sanson, A., Prior, M., Toumbourou, J. W., & Olsson, C. A. (2017). Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 87, 288-308.

Smith, K. E., Mason, T. B., Murray, S. B., Griffiths, S., Leonard, R. C., Wetterneck, C. T., Smith, B. E. R., Farrell, N. R., Riemann, B. C., & Lavender, J. M. (2017). Male clinical norms and sex differences on the Eating Disorder Inventory. (EDI) and Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire. (EDE-Q). International Journal of Eating Disorders, 50, 769-775.

Tailby, C., Rayner, G., Wilson, S., & Jackson, G. (2017). The spatiotemporal substrates of autobiographical recollection: Using event-related ICA to study cognitive networks in action. Neuroimage, 152, 237-248.

Toh, W. L., Castle, D. J., & Rossell, S. L. (2017). Face and object perception in body dysmorphic disorder versus obsessive-compulsive disorder: The Mooney Faces task. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 23, 471-480.

Truss, K., Godfrey, C., Takagi, M., Babl, F. E., Bressan, S., Hearps, S., Clarke, C., Dunne, K., & Anderson, V. (2017). Trajectories and risk factors for post-traumatic stress symptoms following pediatric concussion. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34, 2272-2279.

Tully, L. A., Piotrowska, P. J., Collins, D. A. J., Mairet, K. S., Black, N., Kimonis, E. R., Hawes, D. J., Moul, C., Lenroot, R. K., Frick, P. J., Anderson, V., & Dadds, M. R. (2017). Optimising child outcomes from parenting interventions: fathers' experiences, preferences and barriers to participation. BMC Public Health, 17.

Unkenstein, A. E., Bei, B., & Bryant, C. A. (2017). Enhancing memory self-efficacy during menopause through a group memory strategies program. Menopause-The Journal of the North American Menopause Society, 24, 574-581.

Webb, M. E., Little, D. R., Cropper, S. J., & Roze, K. (2017). The contributions of convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and schizotypy to solving insight and non-insight problems. Thinking & Reasoning, 23, 235-258.

Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (2017). Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games. Scientific Reports, 7.

Zuj, D. V., Palmer, M. A., Gray, K. E., Hsu, C. M. K., Nicholson, E. L., Malhi, G. S., Bryant, R. A., & Felmingham, K. L. (2017). Negative appraisals and fear extinction are independently related to PTSD symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 217, 246-251.