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Overview

Florence Levy was affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focused on the fields of medicine and psychology, with particular attention to psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and speech and hearing.

The scientist's main topics of work included:

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare

Florence Levy authored several papers, among which were:

  • Accelerated cortical thinning and volume reduction over time in young people at high genetic risk for bipolar disorder (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • High-resolution longitudinal changes in the cortical morphology of youth with family history of bipolar disorder (2025), published in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Their work featured collaborations with co-authors including David Hay, Michael McStephen, Gloria Roberts, Rhoshel Lenroot, and Bronwyn J. Overs, with David Hay being the most frequent collaborator.

Levy consistently published in prominent journals such as Psychological Medicine and The British Journal of Psychiatry, reflecting a focus on psychiatric and clinical psychological research.

Best Publications

  • Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Category or a Continuum? Genetic Analysis of a Large-Scale Twin Study

    Florence Levy;David A. Hay;Michael McSTEPHEN;Catherine Wood

  • A review of safety, side-effects and subjective reactions to intranasal oxytocin in human research

    Elayne MacDonald;Mark R. Dadds;John L. Brennan;Katrina Williams

  • Gender differences in ADHD subtype comorbidity.

    Florence Levy;David A. Hay;Kellie S. Bennett;Michael Mcstephen

  • Genetic influences on handedness: Data from 25,732 Australian and Dutch twin families

    Sarah E. Medland;Sarah E. Medland;David L. Duffy;Margaret J. Wright;Gina M. Geffen

  • THE DOPAMINE THEORY OF ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD)

    Florence Levy

  • Nasal Oxytocin for Social Deficits in Childhood Autism: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Mark R. Dadds;Elayne MacDonald;Avril Cauchi;Katrina Williams

  • Joint analysis of the DRD5 marker concludes association with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder confined to the predominantly inattentive and combined subtypes.

    Naomi Lowe;Aiveen Kirley;Ziarih Hawi;Pak Sham

  • Sex differences in genetic and environmental influences on DSM-III-R attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Soo Hyun Rhee;Irwin D. Waldman;David A. Hay;Florence Levy

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINED ATTENTION (VIGILANCE) AND INHIBITION IN CHILDREN: SOME NORMATIVE DATA

    Florence Levy

  • Twin‐Sibling Differences in Parental Reports of ADHD, Speech, Reading and Behaviour Problems

    Florence Levy;Michael McLaughlin;Catherine Wood;David Hay

  • International Variation in Treatment Procedures for ADHD: Social Context and Recent Trends

    Stephen P. Hinshaw;Richard M. Scheffler;Brent D. Fulton;Heidi Aase

  • Familial clustering of latent class and DSM-IV defined attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) subtypes.

    Erik R. Rasmussen;Rosalind J. Neuman;Andrew C. Heath;Florence Levy

  • Replication of the latent class structure of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) subtypes in a sample of Australian twins

    Erik R. Rasmussen;Rosalind J. Neuman;Andrew C. Heath;Florence Levy

  • Functional Dysconnection of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Young People With Bipolar Disorder or at Genetic High Risk

    Gloria Roberts;Anton Lord;Andrew Frankland;Andrew Frankland;Adam Wright

  • Timing, space and ADHD: the dopamine theory revisited.

    Florence Levy;James M Swanson

  • Functional Brain Electrical Activity Mapping in Boys With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Richard B. Silberstein;Maree Farrow;Florence Levy;Andrew Pipingas

  • Depressive symptomatology in child and adolescent twins with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and/or developmental coordination disorder.

    Jan P. Piek;Daniela Rigoli;Jillian G. Pearsall-Jones;Neilson C. Martin

  • A twin study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder dimensions rated by the strengths and weaknesses of ADHD-symptoms and normal-behavior (SWAN) scale.

    David A. Hay;Kellie S. Bennett;Florence Levy;Joseph Sergeant

  • Synaptic gating and ADHD: a biological theory of comorbidity of ADHD and anxiety.

    Florence Levy

  • Genetic and environmental influences on separation anxiety disorder symptoms and their moderation by age and sex.

    Sarah A. Feigon;Irwin D. Waldman;Florence Levy;David A. Hay

  • A comprehensive scoping review of ability and disability in ADHD using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY)

    Elles de Schipper;Aiko Lundequist;Anna Lofgren Wilteus;David R Coghill

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Hay
David A. Hay Curtin University
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Jan P. Piek
Jan P. Piek Curtin University
Melissa J. Green
Melissa J. Green University of New South Wales
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Andrew Pipingas
Andrew Pipingas Swinburne University of Technology
Irwin D. Waldman
Irwin D. Waldman Emory University
Sven Bölte
Sven Bölte Karolinska Institute
Sarah E. Medland
Sarah E. Medland QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia

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