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Alison R. Yung

Alison R. Yung

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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112
Citations
56554
World Ranking
801
National Ranking
26

Medicine

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115
Citations
59136
World Ranking
4480
National Ranking
124

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Alison R. Yung is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has an extensive research record primarily in the fields of medicine and psychology. Their scholarly work focuses on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, philosophy, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

Yung's research fields include:

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology

The main topics covered in their publications highlight areas such as schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health and psychiatry, mental health research topics, bipolar disorder and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Yung has contributed to several recent papers, including works published in notable journals:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health (2024, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Transdiagnostic clinical staging in youth mental health: a first international consensus statement (2020, World Psychiatry)
  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap (2023, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Comorbidity between major depressive disorder and physical diseases: a comprehensive review of epidemiology, mechanisms and management (2023, World Psychiatry)
  • Multiple lifestyle factors and depressed mood: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the UK Biobank (2020, BMC Medicine)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Patrick D. McGorry, Barnaby Nelson, G. Paul Amminger, Andrew Thompson, and Ian B. Hickie.

  • Patrick D. McGorry
  • Barnaby Nelson
  • G. Paul Amminger
  • Andrew Thompson
  • Ian B. Hickie

Yung's research is often published in journals such as Schizophrenia Research, Early Intervention in Psychiatry, the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, UNC Libraries, and The Lancet Psychiatry.

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Early Intervention in Psychiatry
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Alison R. Yung has produced a significant volume of academic work with a notable focus on youth mental health, psychosis, and psychiatric treatments within clinical and preventative frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Mapping the onset of psychosis: the Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States

    Alison R. Yung;Hok Pan Yuen;Patrick D. Mcgorry;Lisa J. Phillips

  • The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

  • Predicting Psychosis: Meta-analysis of Transition Outcomes in Individuals at High Clinical Risk

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Ilaria Bonoldi;Alison R. Yung;Stefan Borgwardt

  • Neuroanatomical abnormalities before and after onset of psychosis: a cross-sectional and longitudinal MRI comparison.

    Christos Pantelis;Christos Pantelis;Dennis Velakoulis;Dennis Velakoulis;Patrick D McGorry;Stephen J Wood;Stephen J Wood

  • The Prodromal Phase of First-episode Psychosis: Past and Current Conceptualizations

    Alison R. Yung;Patrick D. McGorry

  • Psychosis prediction: 12-month follow up of a high-risk ("prodromal") group.

    Alison R Yung;Lisa J Phillips;Hok Pan Yuen;Shona M Francey

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: a blueprint for protecting physical health in people with mental illness

    Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Najma Siddiqi;Ai Koyanagi;Ai Koyanagi;Ai Koyanagi;Dan J Siskind

  • Randomized controlled trial of interventions designed to reduce the risk of progression to first-episode psychosis in a clinical sample with subthreshold symptoms.

    Patrick D. McGorry;Alison R. Yung;Lisa J. Phillips;Hok Pan Yuen

  • Clinical staging of psychiatric disorders: a heuristic framework for choosing earlier, safer and more effective interventions

    Patrick D. McGorry;Ian B. Hickie;Alison R. Yung;Christos Pantelis

  • Prediction of psychosis. A step towards indicated prevention of schizophrenia

    Alison R. Yung;Lisa J. Phillips;Patrick D. McGorry;Colleen A. McFarlane

  • Monitoring and Care of Young People at Incipient Risk of Psychosis

    Alison R. Yung;Patrick D. McGorry;Colleen A. McFarlane;Henry J. Jackson

  • Risk factors for psychosis in an ultra high-risk group: psychopathology and clinical features.

    Alison R Yung;Lisa J Phillips;Hok Pan Yuen;Patrick D McGorry

  • Cognitive Functioning in Prodromal Psychosis: A Meta-analysis

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Giacomo Deste;Renata Smieskova;Stefano Barlati

  • Hippocampal and amygdala volumes according to psychosis stage and diagnosis: a magnetic resonance imaging study of chronic schizophrenia, first-episode psychosis, and ultra-high-risk individuals.

    Dennis Velakoulis;Stephen J Wood;Michael T H Wong;Patrick D McGorry

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of exercise interventions in schizophrenia patients

    Joseph Firth;Jack Cotter;Rebecca Elliott;Paul French

  • Early intervention in psychosis: concepts, evidence and future directions.

    Patrick D. McGorry;Eóqin Killackey;Alison Yung

  • Comorbid Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in 509 Individuals With an At-Risk Mental State: Impact on Psychopathology and Transition to Psychosis

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Barnaby Nelson;Lucia Valmaggia;Alison R. Yung

  • Structural Brain Imaging Evidence for Multiple Pathological Processes at Different Stages of Brain Development in Schizophrenia

    Christos Pantelis;Murat Yücel;Stephen J Wood;Dennis Velakoulis

  • The Initial Prodrome in Psychosis: Descriptive and Qualitative Aspects

    Alison R. Yung;Patrick D. McGorry

  • Declining Transition Rate in Ultra High Risk (Prodromal) Services: Dilution or Reduction of Risk?

    Alison R Yung;Hok Pan Yuen;Gregor Berger;Shona Francey

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick D. McGorry
Patrick D. McGorry University of Melbourne
Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Stephen J. Wood
Stephen J. Wood University of Melbourne
Christos Pantelis
Christos Pantelis University of Melbourne
Lisa J. Phillips
Lisa J. Phillips University of Melbourne
Ashleigh Lin
Ashleigh Lin Telethon Kids Institute
Dennis Velakoulis
Dennis Velakoulis University of Melbourne
Ian B. Hickie
Ian B. Hickie University of Sydney
Joseph Firth
Joseph Firth University of Manchester
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen

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