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Overview

Kristin R. Laurens is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines within psychology, social sciences, and medicine.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

Within these broad areas, their subfields of focus include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Education
  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science

The scientist's core research topics cover a range of issues, such as:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Kristin R. Laurens has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Child Maltreatment and Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Outcomes: An Exploration of Biopsychosocial Determinants and Implications for Prevention (2021), published in Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Identification of Children at Risk of Schizophrenia via Deep Learning and EEG Responses (2020), published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Academic Achievement and Schizophrenia: A Systematic Meta-analysis (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • Neural Memory Plasticity for Medical Anomaly Detection (2020), published in Neural Networks
  • Environmental Risk Factors in Bipolar Disorder and Psychotic Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies (2020), published in Schizophrenia Bulletin

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Vaughan J. Carr
  • Melissa J. Green
  • Stacy Tzoumakis
  • Kimberlie Dean
  • Oliver J. Watkeys

The scientist's work appears regularly in academic journals such as:

  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Psychological Medicine

Best Publications

  • Prevention and Early Intervention for Anxiety disorders: A controlled trial

    Mark R. Dadds;Susan H. Spence;Denise E. Holland;Paula M. Barrett

  • Amygdala Hypoactivity to Fearful Faces in Boys With Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Alice P. Jones;Kristin R. Laurens;Catherine M. Herba;Gareth J. Barker

  • Systematic meta-review and quality assessment of the structural brain alterations in schizophrenia

    Alana M. Shepherd;Kristin R. Laurens;Kristin R. Laurens;Sandra L. Matheson;Vaughan J. Carr

  • Childhood adversity in schizophrenia: a systematic meta-analysis.

    S. L. Matheson;Alana M. Shepherd;R. M. Pinchbeck;Kristin Laurens

  • Early intervention and prevention of anxiety disorders in children: results at 2-year follow-up.

    Mark R. Dadds;Denise E. Holland;Kristin R. Laurens;Miranda J. Mullins

  • Neural sources involved in auditory target detection and novelty processing: An event-related fMRI study

    Kent A. Kiehl;Kristin R. Laurens;Timothy L. Duty;Bruce B. Forster

  • Size Matters: Increased Grey Matter in Boys with Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits.

    Stéphane A. De Brito;Andrea Mechelli;Marko Wilke;Kristin R. Laurens

  • An adaptive reflexive processing model of neurocognitive function: supporting evidence from a large scale (n = 100) fMRI study of an auditory oddball task.

    Kent A. Kiehl;Michael C. Stevens;Kristin R. Laurens;Kristin R. Laurens;Godfrey D. Pearlson

  • Meta-analyses of cognitive and motor function in youth aged 16 years and younger who subsequently develop schizophrenia.

    Hannah Dickson;Kristin R. Laurens;Alexis E. Cullen;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Community screening for psychotic-like experiences and other putative antecedents of schizophrenia in children aged 9-12 years.

    Kristin R. Laurens;Sheilagh Hodgins;Barbara Maughan;Robin M. Murray

  • Rostral anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction during error processing in schizophrenia

    Kristin R. Laurens;Elton T. C. Ngan;Alan T. Bates;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Systematic Meta-Analysis of Insula Volume in Schizophrenia

    Alana M. Shepherd;Sandra L. Matheson;Kristin R. Laurens;Kristin R. Laurens;Vaughan J. Carr

  • Mental health-related stigma and pathways to care for people at risk of psychotic disorders or experiencing first-episode psychosis: a systematic review.

    Petra Gronholm;Graham Thornicroft;Kristin Laurens;Sara Evans-Lacko

  • Psychotic-like experiences in a community sample of 8000 children aged 9 to 11 years: an item response theory analysis

    Kristin Laurens;Megan Hobbs;Mathew Sunderland;Melissa Green

  • Error-related negativity and correct response negativity in schizophrenia

    Alan T. Bates;Alan T. Bates;Kent A. Kiehl;Kristin R. Laurens;Kristin R. Laurens;Peter F. Liddle;Peter F. Liddle

  • A systematic meta-review grading the evidence for non-genetic risk factors and putative antecedents of schizophrenia

    Sandra L. Matheson;Alana M. Shepherd;Kristin R. Laurens;Vaughan J. Carr

  • Brain potentials implicate temporal lobe abnormalities in criminal psychopaths.

    Kent A. Kiehl;Alan T. Bates;Kristin R. Laurens;Robert D. Hare

  • The role of the anterior cingulate cortex in conflict processing: Evidence from reverse stroop interference

    Christian C. Ruff;Todd S. Woodward;Todd S. Woodward;Kristin R. Laurens;Peter F. Liddle

  • Common or distinct pathways to psychosis? A systematic review of evidence from prospective studies for developmental risk factors and antecedents of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders and affective psychoses

    Kristin R Laurens;Luming Luo;Sandra L Matheson;Vaughan J Carr;Vaughan J Carr

  • Reading anomalous sentences: an event-related fMRI study of semantic processing.

    Kent A. Kiehl;Kristin R. Laurens;Kristin R. Laurens;Peter F. Liddle

Frequent Co-Authors

Vaughan J. Carr
Vaughan J. Carr University of New South Wales
Melissa J. Green
Melissa J. Green University of New South Wales
Sheilagh Hodgins
Sheilagh Hodgins University of Montreal
Kent A. Kiehl
Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico
Colette R. Hirsch
Colette R. Hirsch King's College London
Elizabeth Kuipers
Elizabeth Kuipers King's College London
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
Todd S. Woodward
Todd S. Woodward University of British Columbia

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