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Kelly Allott is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia, contributing extensively to the fields of medicine and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on psychiatry and mental health, with significant work in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics. Major areas include schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, mental health and psychiatry, bipolar disorder and treatment, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Kelly Allott has published research in several notable venues, frequently appearing in journals such as Early Intervention in Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, and Biological Psychiatry.

They have collaborated regularly with multiple coauthors, including Stephen J. Wood, Patrick D. McGorry, Barnaby Nelson, Hok Pan Yuen, and Mario Álvarez-Jiménez.

Some recent publications by Kelly Allott include:

  • A systematic review comparing caregiver burden and psychological functioning in caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and bipolar disorders (2022, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Differentiating the effect of antipsychotic medication and illness on brain volume reductions in first-episode psychosis: A Longitudinal, Randomised, Triple-blind, Placebo-controlled MRI Study (2021, Neuropsychopharmacology)
  • Psychosocial Intervention With or Without Antipsychotic Medication for First-Episode Psychosis: A Randomized Noninferiority Clinical Trial (2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open)
  • Network-Based Spreading of Gray Matter Changes Across Different Stages of Psychosis (2023, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Functional Connectivity in Antipsychotic-Treated and Antipsychotic-Naive Patients With First-Episode Psychosis and Low Risk of Self-harm or Aggression (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)

Best Publications

  • Biomarkers and clinical staging in psychiatry.

    Patrick McGorry;Matcheri Keshavan;Sherilyn Goldstone;Paul Amminger

  • Cognition at illness onset as a predictor of later functional outcome in early psychosis: systematic review and methodological critique.

    Kelly Anne Allott;Ping Liu;Tina M Proffitt;Tina M Proffitt;Eoin Killackey

  • The efficacy and safety of nutrient supplements in the treatment of mental disorders: a meta‐review of meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trials

    Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Scott B. Teasdale;Kelly Allott;Dan Siskind

  • Acute-phase and 1-year follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial of CBT versus Befriending for first-episode psychosis : the ACE project

    Henry Jackson;Patrick McGorry;Eoin Killackey;Sarah Bendall

  • Social cognition in clinical "at risk" for psychosis and first episode psychosis populations.

    Andrew D. Thompson;Andrew D. Thompson;Alicia Papas;Alicia Papas;Cali Bartholomeusz;Kelly Allott

  • Neurocognitive Functioning in Depressed Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Joanne Goodall;Caroline Fisher;Sarah Hetrick;Sarah Hetrick;Lisa Phillips

  • Characterizing neurocognitive impairment in young people with major depression: state, trait, or scar?

    Kelly Allott;Caroline A. Fisher;Gunther Paul Amminger;Joanne Goodall

  • Individual placement and support for vocational recovery in first-episode psychosis: randomised controlled trial.

    Eóin Killackey;Kelly Allott;Henry J Jackson;Rosanna Scutella

  • The neurophenomenology of early psychosis: An integrative empirical study.

    B. Nelson;S. Lavoie;Ł. Gawęda;E. Li

  • Facial and vocal affect perception in people at ultra-high risk of psychosis, first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls.

    G. Paul Amminger;Miriam R. Schäfer;Claudia M. Klier;Monika Schlögelhofer

  • Neuroprotection after a first episode of mania: a randomized controlled maintenance trial comparing the effects of lithium and quetiapine on grey and white matter volume.

    Michael Berk;O Dandash;R Daglas;SM Cotton

  • Patterns of use and harm reduction practices of ecstasy users in Australia.

    Kelly Allott;Jennifer Rivers Redman

  • Emotion recognition in unaffected first-degree relatives of individuals with first-episode schizophrenia.

    Kelly A. Allott;Simon Rice;Cali F. Bartholomeusz;Claudia Klier

  • Cognitive impairment in first-episode mania: a systematic review of the evidence in the acute and remission phases of the illness

    Rothanthi Daglas;Murat Yucel;Susan Maree Cotton;Kelly Anne Allott

  • Differentiating the effect of antipsychotic medication and illness on brain volume reductions in first-episode psychosis: A Longitudinal, Randomised, Triple-blind, Placebo-controlled MRI Study.

    Sidhant Chopra;Alex Fornito;Shona M Francey;Brian O'Donoghue

  • Emotion recognition as a predictor of transition to a psychotic disorder in ultra-high risk participants

    Kelly A. Allott;Miriam R. Schäfer;Miriam R. Schäfer;Andrew Thompson;Andrew Thompson;Barnaby Nelson

  • A systematic review comparing caregiver burden and psychological functioning in caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and bipolar disorders

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  • Testing a model of the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and psychosis in a first-episode psychosis group: the role of hallucinations and delusions, posttraumatic intrusions, and selective attention.

    Sarah Bendall;Carol Anne Hulbert;Mario Alvarez-Jimenez;Kelly Allott

  • Are there sex differences associated with the effects of ecstasy/3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)?

    Kelly Anne Allott;Jennifer Rivers Redman

  • Social cognition training as an intervention for improving functional outcome in first-episode psychosis: a feasibility study

    Cali F Bartholomeusz;Kelly Allott;Eoin Killackey;Ping Liu

  • Predictors of vocational recovery among young people with first-episode psychosis: findings from a randomized controlled trial.

    Gennady N. Baksheev;Kelly Allott;Henry J. Jackson;Patrick D. McGorry

  • Neurocognitive and social cognitive approaches for improving functional outcome in early psychosis: theoretical considerations and current state of evidence.

    Cali F. Bartholomeusz;Kelly Allott

  • Psychosocial Intervention With or Without Antipsychotic Medication for First-Episode Psychosis: A Randomized Noninferiority Clinical Trial

    Shona M Francey;Brian O’Donoghue;Barnaby Nelson;Jessica Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Henry J. Jackson
Henry J. Jackson University of Melbourne
Lisa J. Phillips
Lisa J. Phillips University of Melbourne
Murat Yücel
Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
John Farhall
John Farhall La Trobe University
Alison R. Yung
Alison R. Yung Deakin University
Dawn I. Velligan
Dawn I. Velligan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Robert Hester
Robert Hester University of Melbourne
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Simon M Rice
Simon M Rice University of Melbourne

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