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Andrew J. Lawrence is affiliated with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia. Their research spans several fields within medicine and psychology, with a focus on clinical and experimental cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and public health. Lawrence's work particularly addresses areas related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research, psychosomatic disorders, anxiety and depression, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, schizophrenia research and treatment, and stress responses involving cortisol.

The researcher has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Psychological Medicine, Biological Psychiatry, and the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Mediators and moderators in the relationship between maternal childhood adversity and children's emotional and behavioural development: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2022, Psychological Medicine)
  • "The Psychopathology of Worthlessness in Depression" (2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • "Dissociative identity state-dependent working memory in dissociative identity disorder: a controlled functional magnetic resonance imaging study" (2022, BJPsych Open)
  • "Negative symptoms in First-Episode Schizophrenia related to morphometric alterations in orbitofrontal and superior temporal cortex: the OPTiMiSE study" (2022, Psychological Medicine)
  • "Extreme deviations from the normative model reveal cortical heterogeneity and associations with negative symptom severity in first-episode psychosis from the OPTiMiSE and GAP studies" (2023, Translational Psychiatry)

Lawrence frequently collaborates with a network of other researchers, including Paola Dazzan, Carmine M. Pariante, Chiara Nosarti, Mitul A. Mehta, and Roland Zahn. These coauthors contribute notably to fields closely aligned with Lawrence's research interests.

Best Publications

  • Experimental design and analysis and their reporting: new guidance for publication in BJP.

    Michael J Curtis;Richard A Bond;Domenico Spina;Amrita Ahluwalia

  • The orexin system regulates alcohol-seeking in rats.

    Andrew John Lawrence;Michael Cowen;Hong-Ju Yang;Feng Chen

  • Neurochemical modulation of cardiovascular control in the nucleus tractus solitarius.

    Andrew J. Lawrence;Bevyn Jarrott

  • Chronic voluntary alcohol consumption causes persistent cognitive deficits and cortical cell loss in a rodent model

    Annai J Charlton;Carlos May;Sophia J Luikinga;Sophia J Luikinga;Emma L Burrows;Emma L Burrows

  • Analysis of a repetitive DNA sequence from Bordetella pertussis and its application to the diagnosis of pertussis using the polymerase chain reaction.

    E M Glare;J C Paton;R R Premier;A J Lawrence

  • Newly Emerging Clones of Bordetella pertussis Carrying prn2 and ptxP3 Alleles Implicated in Australian Pertussis Epidemic in 2008–2010

    Sophie Octavia;Vitali Sintchenko;Vitali Sintchenko;Gwendolyn L. Gilbert;Andrew Lawrence

  • Inhalant abuse among adolescents: neurobiological considerations

    Dan Lubman;Murat Yucel;Andrew John Lawrence

  • Rapid Increase in Pertactin-deficient Bordetella pertussis Isolates, Australia

    Connie Lam;Sophie Octavia;Lawrence Ricafort;Vitali Sintchenko

  • Orexin/hypocretin role in reward: implications for opioid and other addictions.

    Corey Baimel;Corey Baimel;Selena E Bartlett;Lih-Chu Chiou;Andrew J Lawrence

  • Intra-articular morphine for pain relief after knee arthroscopy

    Girish P Joshi;S. M. McCarroll;C. M. Cooney;W. P. Blunnie

  • Meningococcal B Vaccine and Meningococcal Carriage in Adolescents in Australia.

    Helen S. Marshall;Mark McMillan;Ann P. Koehler;Andrew Lawrence

  • The Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptor Antagonist 3-[(2-Methyl-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)ethynyl]-pyridine Reduces Ethanol Self-Administration in Multiple Strains of Alcohol-Preferring Rats and Regulates Olfactory Glutamatergic Systems

    Michael Scott Cowen;Elvan Djouma;Andrew John Lawrence

  • Acamprosate Produces Its Anti-Relapse Effects Via Calcium

    Rainer Spanagel;Valentina Vengeliene;Bernd Jandeleit;Wolf-Nicolas Fischer

  • The role of opioid-dopamine interactions in the induction and maintenance of ethanol consumption.

    Michael S. Cowen;Andrew J. Lawrence

  • Comparative study on the distribution patterns of P2X1–P2X6 receptor immunoreactivity in the brainstem of the rat and the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus): Association with catecholamine cell groups

    Song T. Yao;Julian A. Barden;David I. Finkelstein;Maxwell R. Bennett

  • Dopamine transporter and D2 receptor binding densities in mice prone or resistant to chronic high fat diet-induced obesity.

    Xu-Feng Huang;Katerina Zavitsanou;Xin Huang;Yinghua Yu

  • The orexin1 receptor antagonist SB-334867 dissociates the motivational properties of alcohol and sucrose in rats

    Bianca Jupp;Bedrija Krivdic;Elena Krstew;Andrew J. Lawrence

  • Restraint stress - Differential cardiovascular responses in Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats

    Stuart J. McDougall;Jeremy R. A. Paull;Robert E. Widdop;Andrew J. Lawrence

  • The GABAB receptor allosteric modulator CGP7930, like baclofen, reduces operant self-administration of ethanol in alcohol-preferring rats

    Jian-Hui Liang;Feng Chen;Elena Krstew;Michael S. Cowen

  • Rapid detection of respiratory syncytial virus in nasopharyngeal aspirates by reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction amplification.

    A W Paton;J C Paton;A J Lawrence;P N Goldwater

Frequent Co-Authors

John Drago
John Drago University of Melbourne
Andrew L. Gundlach
Andrew L. Gundlach Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Philip M. Beart
Philip M. Beart Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Malcolm K. Horne
Malcolm K. Horne Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
John L. Waddington
John L. Waddington Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
James C. Paton
James C. Paton University of Adelaide
Michelle E. Ehrlich
Michelle E. Ehrlich Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Maarten van den Buuse
Maarten van den Buuse La Trobe University
Daniel J. Lodge
Daniel J. Lodge The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Susan L. Rossell
Susan L. Rossell Swinburne University of Technology

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