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Christopher G. Davey

Christopher G. Davey

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Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
11279
World Ranking
4800
National Ranking
269

Overview

Christopher G. Davey is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research focuses broadly on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, and mental health, as well as pharmacology.

Their work addresses several main topics including functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, suicide and self-harm studies, treatment of major depression, bipolar disorder and treatment, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Christopher G. Davey include:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap (2023), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020), published in Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors associated with Christopher G. Davey include Ben J. Harrison, Alec J. Jamieson, Michael Berk, Lianne Schmaal, and Ian H. Gotlib.

They commonly publish in venues such as the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Translational Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Mapping the self in the brain's default mode network

    Christopher G Davey;Jesus Pujol;Ben J Harrison

  • The emergence of depression in adolescence: development of the prefrontal cortex and the representation of reward.

    Christopher G Davey;Murat Yucel;Nicholas Brian Allen

  • Aspirin: a review of its neurobiological properties and therapeutic potential for mental illness

    Michael Berk;Olivia Dean;Olivia Dean;Olivia Dean;Hemmo Drexhage;John James McNeil

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Functional brain imaging studies of youth depression: A systematic review

    Rebecca Kerestes;Christopher G. Davey;Katerina Stephanou;Sarah Whittle

  • Meta-analysis of volumetric abnormalities in cortico-striatal-pallidal-thalamic circuits in major depressive disorder

    Emre Bora;Ben J Harrison;Christopher G Davey;Murat Yucel

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • The Depressed Brain: An Evolutionary Systems Theory

    Paul B. Badcock;Christopher G. Davey;Sarah Whittle;Nicholas B. Allen

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Online and Social Networking Interventions for the Treatment of Depression in Young People: A Systematic Review

    Simon Rice;Joanne Goodall;Sarah Hetrick;Alexandra Parker

  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing

    Lianne Schmaal;Elena Pozzi;Tiffany C Ho;Tiffany C Ho;Laura S van Velzen

  • Regionally specific alterations in functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex in major depressive disorder.

    Christopher G Davey;Ben J Harrison;Murat Yucel;Nicholas Brian Allen

  • Feelings of shame, embarrassment and guilt and their neural correlates: A systematic review

    Coralie Bastin;Ben J. Harrison;Christopher G. Davey;Jorge Moll

  • Being liked activates primary reward and midline self-related brain regions

    Christopher G Davey;Nicholas Brian Allen;B J Harrison;Dominic B Dwyer

  • Youth Codesign of a Mobile Phone App to Facilitate Self-Monitoring and Management of Mood Symptoms in Young People With Major Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Self-Harm

    Sarah Elisabeth Hetrick;Jo Robinson;Eloise Burge;Ryan Blandon

  • A systematic review and meta‐analysis of prospective transition from major depression to bipolar disorder

    Aswin Ratheesh;C. Davey;S. Hetrick;Mario Alvarez-Jimenez

  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders : Evidence through univariate and multivariate mega-analysis including 6420 participants from the ENIGMA MDD working group.

    Nils Opel;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Yuri Milaneschi;Dominik Grotegerd

  • Prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses in preterm and full-term children, adolescents and young adults: a meta-analysis

    A. C. Burnett;P. J. Anderson;J. Cheong;L. W. Doyle

  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan

    Lara M Wierenga;Gaelle E Doucet;Gaelle E Doucet;Danai Dima;Danai Dima;Ingrid Agartz;Ingrid Agartz

  • Moderated online social therapy for depression relapse prevention in young people: pilot study of a 'next generation' online intervention.

    Simon Rice;John Gleeson;Christopher G. Davey;Sarah Hetrick

  • Increased amygdala response to positive social feedback in young people with major depressive disorder.

    Christopher G. Davey;Nicholas B. Allen;Ben J. Harrison;Murat Yücel

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben J. Harrison
Ben J. Harrison University of Melbourne
Andrew M. Chanen
Andrew M. Chanen University of Melbourne
Simon M Rice
Simon M Rice University of Melbourne
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Ian B. Hickie
Ian B. Hickie University of Sydney
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Matthew D. Sacchet
Matthew D. Sacchet Harvard University
Olivia M. Dean
Olivia M. Dean Deakin University
Sarah Whittle
Sarah Whittle University of Melbourne
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster

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