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Overview

Louise Johns is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research centers on psychological and psychiatric topics, with a particular focus on schizophrenia and related mental health issues.

The main fields of study for Louise Johns cover psychology and medicine, with subfields emphasizing psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, and philosophy.

Their primary research topics include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Family caregiving in mental illness
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Family support in illness
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes
  • Mental health and psychiatry
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum

Louise Johns has published multiple papers, several of which are recent and related to psychosis and psychological interventions. Notable papers include:

  • Antipsychotic medication versus psychological intervention versus a combination of both in adolescents with first-episode psychosis (MAPS): a multicentre, three-arm, randomised controlled pilot and feasibility study, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis: Current status, lingering questions and future directions, 2023, Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
  • A Scoping Review of Interventions Designed to Support Parents With Mental Illness That Would Be Appropriate for Parents With Psychosis, 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Group acceptance and commitment therapy for patients and caregivers in psychosis services: Feasibility of training and a preliminary randomized controlled evaluation, 2020, British Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • A targeted psychological treatment for sleep problems in young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis in England (SleepWell): a parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in Louise Johns's work are:

  • Jessica Radley
  • Daniel Freeman
  • Jane Barlow
  • Daniel Maughan
  • Felicity Waite

Their publications are often found in these venues:

  • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • British Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • THE CONTINUITY OF PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCES IN THE GENERAL POPULATION

    Louise C Johns;Jim van Os

  • Elevated Striatal Dopamine Function Linked to Prodromal Signs of Schizophrenia

    Oliver D Howes;Andrew J Montgomery;Marie-Claude Asselin;Robin M Murray

  • Prevalence and correlates of self-reported psychotic symptoms in the British population

    Louise C. Johns;Mary Cannon;Nicola Singleton;Robin M. Murray

  • Effect of mammographic screening from age 40 years on breast cancer mortality at 10 years' follow-up: a randomised controlled trial

    Sue M Moss;Howard Cuckle;Andy Evans;Louise Johns

  • Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia and Nonschizophrenia Populations: A Review and Integrated Model of Cognitive Mechanisms

    Flavie Waters;Paul Allen;Andre Aleman;Charles Fernyhough

  • Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care

    Louise C. Johns;Kristiina Kompus;Melissa Connell;Clara Humpston

  • Occurrence of hallucinatory experiences in a community sample and ethnic variations.

    Louise C. Johns;James Y. Nazroo;Paul Bebbington;Elizabeth Kuipers

  • The Characteristic Features of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Groups: State-of-the-Art Overview and Future Directions

    Frank Laroi;Iris E. Sommer;Jan Dirk Blom;Charles Fernyhough

  • Verbal self-monitoring and auditory verbal hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia.

    L. C. Johns;S. Rossell;C. Frith;F. Ahmad

  • Delusion formation and reasoning biases in those at clinical high risk for psychosis.

    M R Broome;L C Johns;I Valli;J B Woolley

  • What causes the onset of psychosis

    Matthew R. Broome;James B. Woolley;Paul Tabraham;Louise C. Johns

  • Superior temporal lobe dysfunction and frontotemporal dysconnectivity in subjects at risk of psychosis and in first-episode psychosis

    Nicolas Crossley;Andrea Mechelli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Matthew Broome

  • Psychological Therapies for Auditory Hallucinations (Voices): Current Status and Key Directions for Future Research

    Neil Thomas;Mark Hayward;Mark Hayward;Emmanuelle Peters;Emmanuelle Peters;Mark van der Gaag

  • Alterations in White Matter Evident Before the Onset of Psychosis

    Francesco Carletti;James B. Woolley;Sagnik Bhattacharyya;Rocio Perez-Iglesias

  • Outreach and support in south London (OASIS): implementation of a clinical service for prodromal psychosis and the at risk mental state.

    Matthew R. Broome;James B. Woolley;Louise C. Johns;Lucia R. Valmaggia

  • Effect of mammographic screening from age 40 years on breast cancer mortality (UK Age trial): final results of a randomised, controlled trial

    Stephen W Duffy;Daniel Vulkan;Howard Cuckle;Dharmishta Parmar

  • Misattribution of speech and impaired connectivity in patients with auditory verbal hallucinations

    Andrea Mechelli;Paul Allen;Edson Amaro;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Misattribution of external speech in patients with hallucinations and delusions.

    Paul P Allen;Louise C Johns;Cynthia H.Y Fu;Matthew R Broome

  • Neural correlates of executive function and working memory in the ‘ at-risk mental state’

    Matthew R. Broome;Pall Matthiasson;Paolo Fusar-Poli;James B. Woolley

  • Neural correlates of the misattribution of speech in schizophrenia.

    Paul Allen;Edson Amaro;Cynthia H. Y. Fu;Steven C. R. Williams

  • Reduced Mismatch Negativity Predates the Onset of Psychosis

    Madiha Shaikh;Lucia Valmaggia;Matthew R. Broome;Anirban Dutt

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Lucia Valmaggia
Lucia Valmaggia King's College London
Emmanuelle Peters
Emmanuelle Peters King's College London
Paul Allen
Paul Allen Royal Holloway University of London
Philippa Garety
Philippa Garety King's College London
Elizabeth Kuipers
Elizabeth Kuipers King's College London
Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Juliana Onwumere
Juliana Onwumere King's College London
Til Wykes
Til Wykes King's College London
Anthony A. James
Anthony A. James University of California, Irvine

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