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Cybervictimisation and mental health conditions in young people: findings from a nationally representative longitudinal cohort Open

Frédéric Thériault‐Couture, Flora Blangis, Niamh Dooley, Helen L. Fisher, Timothy Matthews , et al. · 2025

Engagement and retention with remote monitoring in psoriasis: Findings from the <span>mySkin</span> study Open

Weiyu Ye, Niamh Dooley, Wei Tan, Bolaji Coker, Teresa Tsakok , et al. · 2025

PLAN-psoriasis: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial comparing patient-led ‘as-needed’ treatment and therapeutic drug monitoring-guided treatment to continuous treatment for adults with clear or almost clear skin on risankizumab monotherapy for psoriasis Open

Weiyu Ye, Kingsley Powell, Niamh Dooley, Charlotte M. Thomas, Bola Coker , et al. · 2025

Introduction Targeted biologic therapies have transformed outcomes for individuals with psoriasis, a common immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease. The widespread use of these highly effective treatments has led to a growing number of i…

P004 Temporal and regional variation in the initiation of biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs for rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide cohort study Open

Mark Russell, Zijing Yang, Niamh Dooley, Mark Gibson, Benjamin Zuckerman , et al. · 2025

Background/Aims For people who have active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) despite treatment with conventional synthetic DMARDs, timely escalation to biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs (b/tsDMARDs) improves outcomes and prevents morbidity. I…

P058 Characterising rheumatoid arthritis impact of disease (RAID) profiles and variability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Open

Nikita Arumalla, Niamh Dooley, Sam Norton, Zijing Yang, Melissa Crooks , et al. · 2025

Background/Aims Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an idiopathic inflammatory arthritis. Monitoring disease activity is essential for effective management, with patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) gaining prominence in assessing symptom bu…

Evaluating a digital mental health intervention for people with Parkinson’s (PACT): acceptability and feasibility randomised controlled trial Open

Cathryn Pinto, Sam Norton, Patricia Cubí‐Mollá, Catherine S. Hurt, Sulayman Chowdhury , et al. · 2025

Progression criteria were met, and PACT was acceptable to people with Parkinson's. It has potential efficacy and cost-effectiveness. A future larger trial to fully evaluate efficacy is needed.Trial registration: ISRCTN65177345 (01/09/2023).

Environmental triggers of psoriasis: insights from a UK patient-reported cohort (mySkin) Open

Madeline Kroah‐Hartman, John Y.W. Lee, Niamh Dooley, Wei Tan, Maaike F M Mineur , et al. · 2025

We developed mySkin, an online platform that captures self-reported information from people with psoriasis across the UK, to improve our knowledge on the environmental determinants of psoriasis. In this cross-sectional analysis of the firs…

<b>Risk and protective factors for cannabis use in adolescence: a population-based survey in schools</b> Open

T C O’Dowd, R Fleury, Emmet Power, Niamh Dooley, Laura Quinn , et al. · 2024

Background: Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit substance in Ireland and globally. It is most likely to be used in adolescence, a period of biopsychosocial vulnerability to maladaptive behaviours. This study aims to investigate the …

Temporal and regional variation in the use of biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs for rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide cohort study Open

Mark Russell, Zijing Yang, Niamh Dooley, Mark Gibson, Benjamin Zuckerman , et al. · 2024

Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate temporal and regional variation in biologic and targeted synthetic DMARD (b/tsDMARD) initiation for RA in England and Wales. Methods An observational cohort study was conducted for peop…

Paclitaxel- or sirolimus-coated balloons used for ArterioVEnous fistulas-2 (PAVE-2): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to determine the efficacy of paclitaxel- or sirolimus-coated balloons in arteriovenous fistulas used for haemodialysis Open

Narayan Karunanithy, Sam Norton, Francis Calder, Neelanjan Das, Niamh Dooley , et al. · 2024

Mental health of Irish adolescents following the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a population-based cross-sectional survey Open

Niamh Dooley, Emmet Power, Hazel Healy, David Cotter, Mary Cannon · 2024

Objectives: This study provides data on the prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents in Ireland in 2021, toward the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The importance of having recent, large-scale, mental health data for adolescent…

Pregnancy complications and childhood mental health: is the association modified by sex or adverse social circumstances? Findings from the ‘growing up in Ireland’ national infant cohort study Open

Emma Butler, Mary Clarke, Michelle Spirtos, Linda M O' Keeffe, Niamh Dooley · 2024

Specific pregnancy complications, socioeconomic position and sex have all been independently associated with child mental health outcomes, but their combined effects remain unclear. We examined whether total number of complications experie…

Examining the association between prenatal and perinatal adversity and the psychotic experiences in childhood Open

Lorna Staines, Niamh Dooley, Colm Healy, Ian Kelleher, David Cotter , et al. · 2024

Background Prenatal and perinatal complications are established risk factors for psychotic disorder, but far less is known about these measures and psychotic experiences (PEs). We investigated the longitudinal effect of prenatal risk facto…

The long shadow of childhood mental health problems Open

Niamh Dooley, Mary Cannon · 2024

The long shadow of childhood mental health problems Dr Niamh Dooley and Professor Mary Cannon explore what young adult life looks like for individuals who had mental health problems as children. People who suffer with their mental health i…

Longitudinal hippocampal subfield development associated with psychotic experiences in young people Open

Aisling O’Neill, Niamh Dooley, Darren Roddy, Colm Healy, Eleanor Carey , et al. · 2024

Trajectories of psychopathology among young people related to outcomes in young adulthood Open

Niamh Dooley, Colm Healy, David Cotter · 2023

What does young adulthood look like for individuals who had mental health problems across childhood? Using the Growing Up in Ireland cohort (born in 1998 and studied from ages 9 to 20) we explored the association between mental health prob…

Correlates of psychotic experiences in gender-diverse youth in Ireland: A population-based survey Open

J. Hoey, R Fleury, Niamh Dooley, Emmet Power, Mary Cannon · 2023

Epidemiological studies have shown that psychotic disorders are more prevalent in transgender and non-binary (TR/NB) individuals compared to their cisgender (i.e., male & female) counterparts (CIS). Despite this, little research exists tha…

Mental health and suicidal behaviours among Irish adolescents - results from the Planet Youth study Open

Mary Cannon, Emmet Power, Niamh Dooley, David Cotter · 2023

Mental health and wellbeing outcomes for young people are poorly understood in the context of natural disasters. There is a little high-quality evidence at a population level describing mental health and wellbeing in young people in Irelan…

Functional Outcomes Among Young People With Trajectories of Persistent Childhood Psychopathology Open

Niamh Dooley, Brendan Kennelly, Louise Arseneault, Stanley Zammit, Rob Whelan , et al. · 2023

Importance Understanding which children in the general population are at greatest risk of poor functional outcomes could improve early screening and intervention strategies. Objective To investigate the odds of poor outcomes in emerging ad…

Longitudinal hippocampal subfield development associated with psychotic experiences in young people Open

Niamh Dooley, Darren Roddy, Eleanor Carey, Thomas Frodl, Erik O’Hanlon , et al. · 2023

Hippocampal volumetric reductions are observed across the psychosis spectrum, with interest in the localisation of these reductions within the hippocampal subfields increasing. Deficits of the CA1 subfield in particular have been implicate…

Predicting childhood ADHD-linked symptoms from prenatal and perinatal data in the ABCD cohort Open

Niamh Dooley, Colm Healy, David Cotter, Mary Clarke, Mary Cannon · 2023

This study investigates the capacity of pre/perinatal factors to predict attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in childhood. It also explores whether predictive accuracy of a pre/perinatal model varies for different grou…

Explaining the Association Between Fetal Growth and Childhood ADHD Symptoms: Cross-cohort Replication Open

Niamh Dooley, Colm Healy, Ross Brannigan, David Cotter, Mary Clarke , et al. · 2022

The persistent effects of foetal growth on child and adolescent mental health: longitudinal evidence from a large population-based cohort Open

Niamh Dooley, Colm Healy, David Cotter, Mary Clarke, Mary Cannon · 2022

Prediction of ADHD symptoms from prenatal data in two large population-based cohorts Open

Niamh Dooley, Mary Cannon, D. Cotter, Mary Clarke · 2022

Introduction The association between low birth weight and attention problems in childhood has been replicated many times (e.g. Momany, Kamradt, & Nikolas, 2018). However birth weight is unlikely the aetiological start-point of this associa…

Person-Centered Trajectories of Psychopathology From Early Childhood to Late Adolescence Open

Colm Healy, Ross Brannigan, Niamh Dooley, Lorna Staines, Helen Keeley , et al. · 2022

Using person-centered methods, this study demonstrated that from early life young peoples' experience of psychopathology is dynamic-they can move between different mental health problems; for most children, these problems are transient, bu…

Longitudinal Gray Matter Development Associated With Psychotic Experiences in Young People Open

Aisling O’Neill, Niamh Dooley, Colm Healy, Eleanor Carey, Darren Roddy , et al. · 2022

These findings further implicate right hippocampal volumetric abnormalities in the pathophysiology underlying PEs. Furthermore, as suggested by previous studies in those at clinical high risk for psychosis and those with first-episode psyc…

Birth Weight and Childhood Psychopathology in the ABCD Cohort: Association is Strongest for Attention Problems and is Moderated by Sex Open

Niamh Dooley, Mary Clarke, David Cotter, Mary Cannon · 2022

Many studies have shown low birth weight is associated with psychopathology later in life, particularly attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The association is well-replicated, independent from a variety of potential familial c…

Neuroanatomical markers of psychotic experiences in adolescents: A machine-learning approach in a longitudinal population-based sample Open

Joanne Kenney, Laura M. Rueda‐Delgado, Erik O’ Hanlon, Lee Jollans, Ian Kelleher , et al. · 2022

Is there an association between prenatal testosterone and autistic traits in adolescents? Open

Niamh Dooley, Amber Ruigrok, Rosemary Holt, Carrie Allison, Alex Tsompanidis , et al. · 2021

Prenatal testosterone (pT) is a crucial component in physiological masculinization in humans. In line with the Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of autism, some studies have found a positive correlation between pT and autistic traits in childhoo…

Prevalence of DSM-V mental disorders in a cohort of young adults in Ireland Open

Josen McGrane, Eleanor Carey, Emmet Power, Niamh Dooley, Sean Madden , et al. · 2021

Aims To estimate the prevalence of DSM-V mental disorders in a population of Irish emerging adults Background Mental disorders are the leading cause of years lived with disability in youth worldwide. Few studies use gold standard of face t…

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