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Case report: Down syndrome regression disorder, catatonia, and psychiatric and immunomodulatory interventions Open

Michael H. Connors, Perminder S. Sachdev, James G. Colebatch, Mark Taylor, Julian N. Trollor , et al. · 2024

Down syndrome regression disorder (DSRD) is a rare condition involving subacute cognitive decline, loss of previously acquired developmental skills, and prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms, particularly catatonia, in people with Down syndr…

Functional neurological disorder clinics in Australasia: A binational survey Open

Michael H. Connors, Jessica Kinder, Emily Swift, Richard Kanaan, Perminder S. Sachdev , et al. · 2024

FND clinics in Australia and New Zealand appear to be concentrated predominantly in metropolitan areas and vary considerably in their referral sources, clinical data collection, and models of care. Reported challenges in meeting demand ind…

Delusions in postpartum psychosis: Implications for cognitive theories Open

Michael H. Connors, Jessica Gibbs, Matthew Large, Peter W. Halligan · 2024

Postpartum psychosis is a rare but serious condition that can affect women after childbirth. We present a case study of an individual with no comorbidities or psychiatric history who developed postpartum psychosis characterised by prominen…

Hypnosis and suggestion as interventions for functional neurological disorder: A systematic review Open

Michael H. Connors, Lena Quinto, Quinton Deeley, Peter W. Halligan, David A. Oakley , et al. · 2023

The findings highlight longstanding and ongoing interest in using hypnosis and suggestion as interventions for FND. While the findings appear promising, limitations in the evidence base, reflecting limitations in FND research more broadly,…

An observer-rated strategy for differentiating schizophrenic and manic states in inpatient settings Open

Gordon Parker, Michael J. Spoelma, Samuel J. Skidmore, Amelia Reid, Samuel Morris , et al. · 2023

Objectives: Differentiating schizophrenia from mania in acutely psychotic patients can be difficult, but is important in determining immediate and subsequent management. Such differentiation is generally addressed by clinical interviews, b…

Misconceptions about paediatric bipolar disorder Open

Michael H. Connors · 2023

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Calibrating violence risk assessments for uncertainty Open

Michael H. Connors, Matthew Large · 2023

Psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians are often tasked with assessing patients’ risk of violence. Approaches to this vary and include both unstructured (based on individual clinicians’ judgement) and structured methods (based on…

Apathy and depression in mild cognitive impairment: distinct longitudinal trajectories and clinical outcomes Open

Michael H. Connors, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto, David Ames, Mark Woodward, Henry Brodaty · 2023

Apathy increases in MCI and is associated with worse clinical outcomes. These findings provide further evidence for apathy as a marker of clinical decline in older people and poorer outcomes across neurocognitive disorders.

Paediatric bipolar disorder and its controversy Open

Michael H. Connors · 2022

Objectives: Paediatric bipolar disorder – bipolar disorder occurring in prepubertal children – is a diagnosis subject to considerable controversy. Whilst historically considered to be very rare, proponents since the 1990s have argued that …

Revealing the Cognitive Neuroscience of Belief Open

Michael H. Connors, Peter W. Halligan · 2022

OPINION article Front. Behav. Neurosci., 18 July 2022Sec. Emotion Regulation and Processing https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.926742

Phenomenology, delusions, and belief Open

Michael H. Connors, Peter W. Halligan · 2021

337 - Pseudodementia, pseudopseudodementia and pseudodepression Open

Henry Brodaty, Michael H. Connors · 2020

While most older people who develop problems with their memory and thinking that are severe enough to impair their ability to function in everyday life typically, are found to have Alzheimer’s disease or other neurodegenerative diseases, s…

Pseudodementia, pseudo‐pseudodementia, and pseudodepression Open

Henry Brodaty, Michael H. Connors · 2020

Dementia has a wide range of reversible causes. Well known among these is depression, though other psychiatric disorders can also impair cognition and give the appearance of neurodegenerative disease. This phenomenon has been known histori…

Non-pharmacological interventions for Lewy body dementia: a systematic review Open

Michael H. Connors, Lena Quinto, Ian G. McKeith, Henry Brodaty, Louise Allan , et al. · 2017

Lewy body dementia (consisting of dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia) is a common neurodegenerative disease characterised by visual hallucinations, fluctuating attention, motor disturbances, falls, and sensitivity t…

POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION AND MORTALITY IN OLDER PEOPLE ATTENDING MEMORY CLINICS Open

Amanda J. Cross, Johnson George, Mark Woodward, David Ames, Henry Brodaty , et al. · 2017

Potentially inappropriate medication use may increase the risk of adverse drug events, hospitalization, morbidity and mortality in older people.

Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators Open

Britta Biedermann, Peter de Lissa, Yatin Mahajan, Vince Polito, Nicholas A. Badcock , et al. · 2016

Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators Open

Britta Biedermann, Peter de Lissa, Yatin Mahajan, Vince Polito, Nicholas A. Badcock , et al. · 2016

A recent meta-analysis emphasises that meditation can improve attention in healthy adults (Sedlmeier et al., 2012). The findings of a study by Cahn and Polich (2009) suggests that there is an effect of a meditative state on three event-rel…

Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators Open

Britta Biedermann, Peter de Lissa, Yatin Mahajan, Vince Polito, Nicholas A. Badcock , et al. · 2016

A recent meta-analysis emphasises that meditation can improve attention in healthy adults (Sedlmeier et al., 2012). The findings of a study by Cahn and Polich (2009) suggests that there is an effect of a meditative state on three event-rel…

Cognition and mortality in older people: the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study Open

Michael H. Connors, Perminder S. Sachdev, Nicole A. Kochan, Jing Xu, Brian Draper , et al. · 2015

The findings indicate that decline in cognition is a robust predictor of mortality in older people without dementia at a population level. This relationship is not accounted for by co-morbid depression or other established biomedical risk …

Psychological perspectives on expertise Open

Guillermo Campitelli, Michael H. Connors, Merim Bilalić, David Z. Hambrick · 2015

EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 10 March 2015Sec. Cognition Volume 6 - 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00258

A cognitive account of belief: a tentative road map Open

Michael H. Connors, Peter W. Halligan · 2015

Over the past decades, delusions have become the subject of growing and productive research spanning clinical and cognitive neurosciences. Despite this, the nature of belief, which underpins the construct of delusions, has received little …

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