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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Stephen J. Wood is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their work primarily focuses on psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology, with significant involvement in clinical psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Mental health research topics
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications
  • Mental health and psychiatry
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development

Frequent co-authors of Stephen J. Wood include:

  • Christos Pantelis
  • Rachel Upthegrove
  • Nikolaos Koutsouleris
  • Eva Meisenzahl
  • Patrick D. McGorry

Stephen J. Wood's publications appear regularly in a selection of specialized venues, such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Wood include:

  • Global Epidemiology of Hip Fractures: Secular Trends in Incidence Rate, Post-Fracture Treatment, and All-Cause Mortality (2023, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health (2024, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Intravenous ferric derisomaltose in patients with heart failure and iron deficiency in the UK (IRONMAN): an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint trial (2022, The Lancet)
  • Inflammation and Brain Structure in Schizophrenia and Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Two distinct neuroanatomical subtypes of schizophrenia revealed using machine learning (2020, Brain)

Stephen J. Wood has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • A conceptual framework for implementation fidelity

    Christopher Carroll;Malcolm Patterson;Stephen Wood;Andrew Booth

  • The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

  • Neuroanatomical abnormalities before and after onset of psychosis: a cross-sectional and longitudinal MRI comparison.

    Christos Pantelis;Christos Pantelis;Dennis Velakoulis;Dennis Velakoulis;Patrick D McGorry;Stephen J Wood;Stephen J Wood

  • Normative Data From the Cantab. I: Development of Executive Function Over the Lifespan

    Cinzia R De Luca;Stephen J Wood;Vicki Anderson;Jo-Anne Buchanan

  • Both Familial Parkinson’s Disease Mutations Accelerate α-Synuclein Aggregation

    Linda Narhi;Stephen J. Wood;Shirley Steavenson;Yijia Jiang

  • Hippocampal and amygdala volumes according to psychosis stage and diagnosis: a magnetic resonance imaging study of chronic schizophrenia, first-episode psychosis, and ultra-high-risk individuals.

    Dennis Velakoulis;Stephen J Wood;Michael T H Wong;Patrick D McGorry

  • alpha-synuclein fibrillogenesis is nucleation-dependent. Implications for the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease.

    Stephen J. Wood;Jette Wypych;Shirley Steavenson;Jean-Claude Louis

  • Structural Brain Imaging Evidence for Multiple Pathological Processes at Different Stages of Brain Development in Schizophrenia

    Christos Pantelis;Murat Yücel;Stephen J Wood;Dennis Velakoulis

  • Are There Progressive Brain Changes in Schizophrenia? A Meta-Analysis of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

    Bayanne Olabi;Ian Ellison-Wright;Ian Ellison-Wright;Andrew M. McIntosh;Stephen J. Wood;Stephen J. Wood

  • Neuroanatomical abnormalities in schizophrenia: a multimodal voxelwise meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis.

    Emre Bora;Alex Fornito;Joaquim Radua;Mark Walterfang

  • 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

  • Memory impairments identified in people at ultra-high risk for psychosis who later develop first-episode psychosis.

    Warrick J. Brewer;Shona M. Francey;Stephen J. Wood;Henry J. Jackson

  • Physical, morphological and functional differences between ph 5.8 and 7.4 aggregates of the Alzheimer's amyloid peptide Abeta.

    Stephen J. Wood;Beverly Maleeff;Timothy Hart;Ronald Wetzel

  • Hippocampal volume and everyday memory in children of very low birth weight.

    Elizabeth B Isaacs;Alan Lucas;Wui K Chong;Stephen J Wood

  • Enriched job design, high involvement management and organizational performance: The mediating roles of job satisfaction and well-being

    Stephen Wood;Marc Van Veldhoven;Marcel Croon;Lilian M de Menezes

  • Progressive Gray Matter Reduction of the Superior Temporal Gyrus During Transition to Psychosis

    Tsutomu Takahashi;Stephen J. Wood;Alison R. Yung;Bridget Soulsby

  • Mapping grey matter reductions in schizophrenia : An anatomical likelihood estimation analysis of voxel-based morphometry studies

    Alexander Fornito;Murat Yucel;Jessica Patti;Stephen J Wood

  • Age of Onset of Schizophrenia: Perspectives From Structural Neuroimaging Studies

    Nitin Gogtay;Nora S. Vyas;Renee Testa;Stephen J. Wood;Stephen J. Wood

  • High Involvement Management, High Performance Work Systems and Well-being

    Stephen J. Wood;Lilian M de Menezes

  • Selective inhibition of Abeta fibril formation

    Stephen J. Wood;Lauri MacKenzie;Beverly Maleeff;Mark R. Hurle

Frequent Co-Authors

Christos Pantelis
Christos Pantelis University of Melbourne
Patrick D. McGorry
Patrick D. McGorry University of Melbourne
Alison R. Yung
Alison R. Yung Deakin University
Dennis Velakoulis
Dennis Velakoulis University of Melbourne
Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Ashleigh Lin
Ashleigh Lin Telethon Kids Institute
Murat Yücel
Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Lisa J. Phillips
Lisa J. Phillips University of Melbourne
Alex Fornito
Alex Fornito Monash University
Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Nikolaos Koutsouleris Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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