Hot Off the Press: September 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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Abu-Akel, A. M., Apperly, I. A., Wood, S. J., & Hansen, P. C. (2017). Autism and psychosis expressions diametrically modulate the right temporoparietal junction. Social Neuroscience, 12, 506-518.

Blake, M. J., Sheeber, L. B., Youssef, G. J., Raniti, M. B., & Allen, N. B. (2017). Systematic review and meta-analysis of adolescent cognitive-behavioral sleep interventions. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 20, 227-249.

Grech, L. B., Kiropoulos, L. A., Kirby, K. M., Butler, E., Paine, M., & Hester, R. (2017). Executive function is an important consideration for coping strategy use in people with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 39, 817-831.

Howe, P. D. L. (2017). Natural scenes can be identified as rapidly as individual features. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1674-1681.

Le, H. N. D., Gold, L., Mensah, F., Eadie, P., Bavin, E L., Bretherton, L., & Reilly, S. (2017). Service utilisation and costs of language impairment in children: The early language in Victoria Australian population-based study. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19, 360-369.

Lewis, F. C., Reeve, R. A., Kelly, S. P., & Johnson, K. A. (2017). Sustained attention to a predictable, unengaging Go/No-Go task shows ongoing development between 6 and 11 years. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1726-1741.

Mundy, L. K., Canterford, L., Olds, T., Allen, N. B., & Patton, G. C. (2017). The association between electronic media and emotional and behavioral problems in late childhood. Academic Pediatrics, 17, 620-624.

O'Neil, A., Cocker, F., Rarau, P., Baptista, S., Cassimatis, M., Taylor, C. B., Lau, A. Y. S., Kanuri, N., & Oldenburg, B. (2017). Using digital interventions to improve the cardiometabolic health of populations: A meta-review of reporting quality. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 24, 867-879.

Raniti, M. B., Allen, N. B., Schwartz, O., Waloszek, J. M., Byrne, M. L., Woods, M. J., Bei, B., Nicholas, C. L., & Trinder, J. (2017). Sleep duration and sleep quality: Associations with depressive symptoms across adolescence. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15, 198-215.

Sandy, C. J., Gosling, S. D., Schwartz, S. H., & Koelkebeck, T. (2017). The development and validation of brief and ultrabrief measures of values. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99, 545-555.

Tailby, C., Abbott, D. F., & Jackson, G. D. (2017). The diminishing dominance of the dominant hemisphere: Language fMRI in focal epilepsy. Neuroimage-Clinical, 14, 141-150.

Thompson, E. J., Anderson, V. A., Hearps, S. J. C., McCarthy, M. C., Mihalopoulos, C., Nicholson, J. M., Rayner, M., & Muscara, F. (2017). Posttraumatic stress symptom severity and health service utilization in trauma-exposed parents. Health Psychology, 36, 779-786.

Toh, W. L., Castle, D. J., Mountjoy, R. L., Buchanan, B., Farhall, J., & Rossell, S. L. (2017). Insight in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) relative to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and psychotic disorders: Revisiting this issue in light of DSM-5. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 77, 100-108.

Vijayakumar, N., Allen, N. B., Dennison, M., Byrne, M. L., Simmons, J. G., & Whittle, S. (2017). Cortico-amygdalar maturational coupling is associated with depressive symptom trajectories during adolescence. Neuroimage, 156, 403-411.

Wilkinson, A. A., Dennis, M., Simic, N., Taylor, M. J., Morgan, B. R., Frndova, H., Choong, K., Campbell, C., Fraser, D., Anderson, V., Guerguerian, A. M., Schachar, R., & Hutchison, J. (2017). Brain biomarkers and pre-injury cognition are associated with long-term cognitive outcome in children with traumatic brain injury. BMC Pediatrics, 17.