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Overview

Debra L. Foley is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with specific subfields including General Health Professions, Surgery, and Epidemiology.

The scientist has contributed to research focused on Child and Adolescent Health, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies, and Congenital Heart Disease Studies. These topics define the core areas of their research interests and publications.

One recently published paper is titled Paediatric iGAS Morbidity and Mortality in Ireland 2022-2023 episodic upsurge, published in 2024 by the European Journal of Public Health. This publication represents the latest known contribution to their research portfolio.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Debra L. Foley include:

  • O Cotter
  • F Cloak
  • U Fallon
  • Cilian Ó Maoldomhnaigh
  • Patrick Keown

Their publications have appeared in the European Journal of Public Health, a venue where they have had at least one publication.

Best Publications

  • What do childhood anxiety disorders predict

    Antje Bittner;Helen L. Egger;Alaattin Erkanli;E. Jane Costello

  • Childhood adversity, monoamine oxidase a genotype, and risk for conduct disorder.

    Debra L. Foley;Lindon J. Eaves;Brandon Wormley;Judy L. Silberg

  • The Influence of Genetic Factors and Life Stress on Depression Among Adolescent Girls

    Judy L. Silberg;Andrew Pickles;Michael Rutter;John Hewitt

  • 10-year research update review: the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: II. Developmental epidemiology.

    E. Jane Costello;Debra L. Foley;Adrian Angold

  • Long-term follow-up of a group at ultra high risk ("prodromal") for psychosis: the PACE 400 study

    Barnaby Nelson;Hok Pan Yuen;Stephen J Wood;Ashleigh Lin

  • Proximal Psychiatric Risk Factors for Suicidality in Youth: The Great Smoky Mountains Study

    Debra L. Foley;David B. Goldston;E. Jane Costello;Adrian Angold

  • Systematic review of early cardiometabolic outcomes of the first treated episode of psychosis

    Debra L. Foley;Katherine I. Morley

  • Prospects for Epigenetic Epidemiology

    Debra L. Foley;Jeffrey M. Craig;Ruth Morley;Craig J. Olsson

  • Assortative mating for major psychiatric diagnoses in two population-based samples

    Hermine H. M. Maes;M. C. Neale;K. S. Kendler;J. K. Hewitt

  • Cardiometabolic risk factors in people with psychotic disorders: The second Australian national survey of psychosis:

    Cherrie A Galletly;Cherrie A Galletly;Debra L Foley;Anna Waterreus;Gerald F Watts

  • Gender differences in premorbid, entry, treatment, and outcome characteristics in a treated epidemiological sample of 661 patients with first episode psychosis

    S M Cotton;Michelle Lambert;B G Schimmelmann;D L Foley

  • Child psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial impairment: relationship and prognostic significance

    Andrew Pickles;Richard Rowe;Emily Simonoff;Debra Foley

  • Responding to challenges for people with psychotic illness: Updated evidence from the Survey of High Impact Psychosis

    Vera A. Morgan;Anna Waterreus;Vaughan Carr;Vaughan Carr;Vaughan Carr;David Jonathan Castle;David Jonathan Castle

  • Prospects for epigenetic research within cohort studies of psychological disorder: A pilot investigation of a peripheral cell marker of epigenetic risk for depression

    C. A. Olsson;D. L. Foley;M. Parkinson-Bates;G. Byrnes

  • Parental concordance and comorbidity for psychiatric disorder and associate risks for current psychiatric symptoms and disorders in a community sample of juvenile twins.

    Debra L. Foley;Andrew Pickles;Emily Simonoff;Hermine H. Maes

  • Monoamine oxidase A and childhood adversity as risk factors for conduct disorder in females.

    E. C. Prom-Wormley;Lindon J. Eaves;D. L. Foley;C. O. Gardner

  • Genetic and environmental influences on the relative timing of pubertal change.

    Lindon Eaves;Judy Silberg;Debra Foley;Cynthia Bulik

  • Course and Short-Term Outcomes of Separation Anxiety Disorder in a Community Sample of Twins

    Debra L. Foley;Andrew Pickles;Hermine M. Maes;Judy L. Silberg

  • Major depression and the metabolic syndrome

    Debra L Foley;Katherine I Morley;Pamela A F Madden;Andrew C Heath

  • A longitudinal study of stressful life events assessed at interview with an epidemiological sample of adult twins: the basis of individual variation in event exposure

    D. L. Foley;M. C. Neale;K. S. Kendler

  • Reliability of a lifetime history of major depression: implications for heritability and co-morbidity.

    D. L. Foley;M. C. Neale;K. S. Kendler

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Mackinnon
Andrew Mackinnon University of New South Wales
David J. Castle
David J. Castle University of Tasmania
Hermine H. Maes
Hermine H. Maes Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Michael C. Neale
Michael C. Neale Virginia Commonwealth University
Vaughan J. Carr
Vaughan J. Carr University of New South Wales
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Craig A. Olsson
Craig A. Olsson Deakin University
Brien P. Riley
Brien P. Riley Virginia Commonwealth University
Alison R. Yung
Alison R. Yung Deakin University

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