By Associate Professor Louise Rua Mewton

Journal articles

Visontay R; Squeglia LM; Sunderland M; Devine EK; Byrne H; Mewton L, 2024, 'Enhancing causal inference in population-based neuroimaging data in children and adolescents', Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101465

Borodovsky JT; Squeglia LM; Mewton L; Marsch LA, 2024, 'Longitudinal Use Patterns of Technology Subtypes During the Transition Into Early Adolescence: Results From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study', Journal of Adolescent Health, 75, pp. 809 - 818, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.06.020

Slade T; O'Dean SM; Chung T; Mewton L; McCambridge J; Clare P; Bruno R; Yuen WS; Tibbetts J; Clay P; Henderson A; McBride N; Mattick R; Boland V; Hutchinson D; Upton E; Isik A; Johnson P; Kypri K, 2024, 'The key role of specific DSM-5 diagnostic criteria in the early development of alcohol use disorder: Findings from the RADAR prospective cohort study', Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 48, pp. 1395 - 1404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.15379

Teesson M; Birrell L; Slade T; Mewton LR; Olsen N; Hides L; McBride N; Chatterton ML; Allsop S; Furneaux-Bate A; Bryant Z; Ellem R; Baker MJ; Healy A; Debenham J; Boyle J; Mather M; Mihalopoulos C; Chapman C; Newton NC, 2024, 'Effectiveness of a universal, school-based, online programme for the prevention of anxiety, depression, and substance misuse among adolescents in Australia: 72-month outcomes from a cluster-randomised controlled trial', The Lancet Digital Health, 6, pp. e334 - e344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00046-3

Visontay R; Mewton L; Sunderland M; Chapman C; Slade T, 2024, 'Is low-level alcohol consumption really health-protective? A critical review of approaches to promote causal inference and recent applications', Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 48, pp. 771 - 780, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.15299

Mewton L; Visontay R; Hughes G; Browning C; Wen W; Topiwala A; Draper B; Crawford JD; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'Longitudinal alcohol-related brain changes in older adults: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study', Addiction Biology, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/adb.13402

Green RJ; Wolf BJ; Chen A; Kirkland AE; Ferguson PL; Browning BD; Bryant BE; Tomko RL; Gray KM; Mewton L; Squeglia LM, 2024, 'Predictors of Substance Use Initiation by Early Adolescence', The American journal of psychiatry, 181, pp. 423 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230882

Sunderland M; Olsen N; Visontay R; Chapman C; Mewton L; Stapinski L; Newton N; Teesson M; Slade T, 2024, '“One Metric to Rule Them All”: A Common Metric for Symptoms of Depression and Generalized Anxiety in Adolescent Samples', Clinical Psychological Science, 12, pp. 147 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21677026231168564

Forbes MK; Baillie A; Batterham PJ; Calear A; Kotov R; Krueger RF; Markon KE; Mewton L; Pellicano E; Roberts M; Rodriguez-Seijas C; Sunderland M; Watson D; Watts AL; Wright AGC; Anna Clark L, 2024, 'Reconstructing Psychopathology: A Data-Driven Reorganization of the Symptoms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders', Clinical Psychological Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21677026241268345

Lin K; Wen W; Lipnicki DM; Mewton L; Chen R; Du J; Wang D; Skoog I; Sterner TR; Najar J; Kim KW; Han JW; Kim JS; Ng TP; Ho R; Chua DQL; Anstey KJ; Cherbuin N; Mortby ME; Brodaty H; Kochan N; Sachdev PS; Jiang J, 2024, 'Risk factors and cognitive correlates of white matter hyperintensities in ethnically diverse populations without dementia: The COSMIC consortium', Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 16, pp. e12567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12567

Mewton LR, 2024, '6.3 From Data Access to Published Findings From the ABCD Study®', Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 63, pp. S152 - S152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2024.07.611

Lam BCP; Lo JW; Mewton L; Reppermund S; Oestreich L; O'Sullivan M; Crawford JD; Brodaty H; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'RISK FACTORS FOR ONSET OF POST-STROKE DEPRESSION IN DIVERSE ETHNO-REGIONAL GROUPS', Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior, 6, pp. 100106 - 100106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2022.100106

Hoy N; Lynch SJ; Waszczuk MA; Reppermund S; Mewton L, 2023, 'Transdiagnostic biomarkers of mental illness across the lifespan: A systematic review examining the genetic and neural correlates of latent transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology in the general population', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105431

Andrews JL; Birrell L; Chapman C; Teesson M; Newton N; Allsop S; McBride N; Hides L; Andrews G; Olsen N; Mewton L; Slade T, 2023, 'Evaluating the effectiveness of a universal eHealth school-based prevention programme for depression and anxiety, and the moderating role of friendship network characteristics', Psychological Medicine, 53, pp. 5042 - 5051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002033

Halladay J; Slade T; Chapman C; Mewton L; O'Dean S; Visontay R; Baillie A; Teesson M; Sunderland M, 2023, 'Is the association between psychological distress and risky alcohol consumption shifting over time? An age-period-cohort analysis of the Australian population', Psychiatry Research, 326, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115356

Visontay R; Mewton L; Sunderland M; Bell S; Britton A; Osman B; North H; Mathew N; Slade T, 2023, 'A comprehensive evaluation of the longitudinal association between alcohol consumption and a measure of inflammation: Multiverse and vibration of effects analyses', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109886

Green RJ; Meredith LR; Mewton L; Squeglia LM, 2023, 'Adolescent Neurodevelopment Within the Context of Impulsivity and Substance Use', Current Addiction Reports, 10, pp. 166 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40429-023-00485-4

Minihan S; Songco A; Fox E; Ladouceur CD; Mewton L; Moulds M; Pfeifer JH; Van Harmelen AL; Schweizer S, 2023, 'Affect and Mental Health Across the Lifespan During a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies and Mental Flexibility', Emotion, 24, pp. 67 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001238

Champion KE; Newton NC; Gardner LA; Chapman C; Thornton L; Slade T; Sunderland M; Hides L; McBride N; O'Dean S; Kay-Lambkin F; Allsop S; Lubans DR; Parmenter B; Mills K; Spring B; Osman B; Ellem R; Smout S; Whife J; Stewart C; McCann KM; Catakovic A; Hunter E; Teesson M; Barrett EL; Birrell L; Stapinski LA; Mewton L, 2023, 'Health4Life eHealth intervention to modify multiple lifestyle risk behaviours among adolescent students in Australia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial', The Lancet Digital Health, 5, pp. e276 - e287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00028-6

Andrews JL; Li M; Minihan S; Songco A; Fox E; Ladouceur CD; Mewton L; Moulds M; Pfeifer JH; Van Harmelen AL; Schweizer S, 2023, 'The effect of intolerance of uncertainty on anxiety and depression, and their symptom networks, during the COVID-19 pandemic', BMC Psychiatry, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04734-8

Songco A; Minihan S; Fox E; Ladouceur C; Mewton L; Moulds M; Pfeifer J; Van Harmelen AL; Schweizer S, 2023, 'Social and cognitive vulnerability to COVID-19-related stress in pregnancy: A case-matched-control study of antenatal mental health', Journal of Affective Disorders, 325, pp. 739 - 746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.053

Visontay R; Mewton L; Slade T; Aris IM; Sunderland M, 2023, 'Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Depression: A Marginal Structural Model Approach Promoting Causal Inference', American Journal of Psychiatry, 180, pp. 209 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.22010043

Mewton L; Visontay R; Hoy N; Lipnicki DM; Sunderland M; Lipton RB; Guerchet M; Ritchie K; Najar J; Scarmeas N; Kim KW; Riedel Heller S; van Boxtel M; Jacobsen E; Brodaty H; Anstey KJ; Haan M; Scazufca M; Lobo E; Sachdev PS, 2023, 'The relationship between alcohol use and dementia in adults aged more than 60 years: a combined analysis of prospective, individual-participant data from 15 international studies', Addiction, 118, pp. 412 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.16035

Lipnicki DM; Lam BCP; Mewton L; Crawford JD; Sachdev PS, 2023, 'Harmonizing Ethno-Regionally Diverse Datasets to Advance the Global Epidemiology of Dementia', Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 39, pp. 177 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cger.2022.07.009

Mewton L; Davies S; Sunderland M; Champion K; Hoy N; Newton N; Teesson M; Squeglia LM, 2023, 'Longitudinal Relationships Between Lifestyle Risk Factors and Neurodevelopment in Early Adolescence', Health Psychology, 42, pp. 904 - 912, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hea0001248

Green R; Kirkland AE; Browning BD; Bryant BE; Garcia AM; Tomko RL; Gray KM; Mewton L; Wolf BJ; Ferguson PL; Squeglia LM, 2023, '325 Predictors of Substance Use Initiation by Late Childhood: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study', Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7, pp. 97 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2023.374

Visontay R; Sunderland M; Slade T; Wilson J; Mewton L, 2022, 'Are there non-linear relationships between alcohol consumption and long-term health?: a systematic review of observational studies employing approaches to improve causal inference', BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01486-5

Hoy N; Lynch S; Waszczuk M; Reppermund S; Mewton L, 2022, 'Investigating the molecular genetic, genomic, brain structural, and brain functional correlates of latent transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology across the lifespan: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies in the general population', Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1036794

O'Dean SM; Mewton L; Chung T; Clay P; Clare PJ; Bruno R; Yuen WS; McBride N; Swift W; Isik A; Upton E; Tibbetts J; Johnson P; Kypri K; Slade T, 2022, 'Definition matters: assessment of tolerance to the effects of alcohol in a prospective cohort study of emerging adults', Addiction, 117, pp. 2955 - 2964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.15991

Lees B; Riches J; Mewton L; Elliott EJ; Allsop S; Newton N; Thomas S; Rice LJ; Nepal S; Teesson M; Stapinski LA, 2022, 'Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder resources for educators: A scoping review', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 33, pp. 797 - 809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpja.574

Mewton L; Lees B; Squeglia LM; Forbes MK; Sunderland M; Krueger R; Koch FC; Baillie A; Slade T; Hoy N; Teesson M, 2022, 'The relationship between brain structure and general psychopathology in preadolescents', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 63, pp. 734 - 744, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13513

Mewton L; Squeglia L, 2022, 'Neurodevelopmental Profiles in Adolescence: Leveraging Data From the Landmark Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study', Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7, pp. 343 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.01.005

Minihan S; Orben A; Songco A; Fox E; Ladouceur C; Mewton L; Moulds ML; Pfeifer J; Van Harmelen A-L; Schweizer S, 2022, 'Social Determinants of Mental Health During a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.', Development and Psychopathology, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579422000396

Hoy N; Newton N; Kochan NA; Sunderland M; Baillie A; Chapman C; Winter V; Sachdev P; Teesson M; Mewton L, 2022, 'Rethink My Drink: study protocol for a 12-month randomised controlled trial comparing a brief internet-delivered intervention to an online patient information booklet in reducing risky alcohol consumption among older adults in Australia', Addiction, 117, pp. 815 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.15672

Champion KE; Chapman C; Gardner LA; Sunderland M; Newton NC; Smout S; Thornton LK; Hides L; McBride N; Allsop SJ; Mills K; Kay-Lambkin F; Teesson M; Slade T; Parmenter B; Spring B; Lubans D; Barrett E; Stapinski L; Mewton L, 2022, 'Lifestyle risks for chronic disease among Australian adolescents: a cross-sectional survey', Medical Journal of Australia, 216, pp. 156 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51333

Newton NC; Chapman C; Slade T; Birrell L; Healy A; Mather M; McBride N; Hides L; Allsop S; Mewton L; Andrews G; Teesson M, 2022, 'A national effectiveness trial of an eHealth program to prevent alcohol and cannabis misuse: Responding to the replication crisis', Psychological Medicine, 52, pp. 274 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720001919

Slade T; Mewton L; O'Dean S; Tibbetts J; Clay P; Isik A; Johnson P; McCraw S; Upton E; Kypri K; Butterworth P; McBride N; Swift W, 2021, 'DSM-5 and ICD-11 alcohol use disorder criteria in young adult regular drinkers: Lifetime prevalence and age of onset', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.109184

Sunderland M; Forbes MK; Mewton L; Baillie A; Carragher N; Lynch SJ; Batterham PJ; Calear AL; Chapman C; Newton NC; Teesson M; Slade T, 2021, 'The structure of psychopathology and association with poor sleep, self-harm, suicidality, risky sexual behavior, and low self-esteem in a population sample of adolescents', Development and Psychopathology, 33, pp. 1208 - 1219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000437

Visontay R; Sunderland M; Slade T; Wilson J; Mewton L, 2021, '1168Are there non-linear alcohol–health relationships?: Review of observational studies employing enhanced causal methods', International Journal of Epidemiology, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.686

Lees B; Elliott EJ; Allsop S; Thomas S; Riches J; Nepal S; Rice LJ; Newton N; Mewton L; Teesson M; Stapinski LA, 2021, 'Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder resources for educators working within primary school settings: A scoping review protocol', BMJ Open, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045497

Lees B; Squeglia LM; McTeague LM; Forbes MK; Krueger RF; Sunderland M; Baillie AJ; Koch F; Teesson M; Mewton L, 2021, 'Altered Neurocognitive Functional Connectivity and Activation Patterns Underlie Psychopathology in Preadolescence', Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6, pp. 387 - 398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.09.007

Visontay R; Mewton L; Sunderland M; Prior K; Slade T, 2021, 'Corrigendum to “Changes over time in young adults’ harmful alcohol consumption: A cross-temporal meta-analysis using the AUDIT” [Drug Alcohol Depend. 214 (2020) 108172] (Drug and Alcohol Dependence (2020) 214, (S0376871620303379), (10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108172))', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108551

Lees B; Garcia AM; Debenham J; Kirkland AE; Bryant BE; Mewton L; Squeglia LM, 2021, 'Promising vulnerability markers of substance use and misuse: A review of human neurobehavioral studies', Neuropharmacology, 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108500

Visontay R; Sunderland M; Slade T; Wilson J; Mewton L, 2021, 'Are there non-linear relationships between alcohol consumption and long-term health? Protocol for a systematic review of observational studies employing approaches to improve causal inference', BMJ Open, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043985

Forbes MK; Sunderland M; Rapee RM; Batterham PJ; Calear AL; Carragher N; Ruggero C; Zimmerman M; Baillie AJ; Lynch SJ; Mewton L; Slade T; Krueger RF, 2021, 'A Detailed Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology: From Individual Symptoms up to the General Factor of Psychopathology', Clinical Psychological Science, 9, pp. 139 - 168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702620954799

Visontay R; Rao RT; Mewton L, 2021, 'Alcohol use and dementia: new research directions', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 34, pp. 165 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000679

Sunderland M; Champion K; Slade T; Chapman C; Newton N; Thornton L; Kay-Lambkin F; McBride N; Allsop S; Parmenter B; Teesson M; Mills K; Hides L; Stapinski L; Barrett EL; Mewton L; Gardner LA, 2021, 'Age-varying associations between lifestyle risk factors and major depressive disorder: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of adolescents', Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56, pp. 129 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01888-8

Lees B; Stapinski LA; Teesson M; Squeglia LM; Jacobus J; Mewton L, 2021, 'Problems experienced by children from families with histories of substance misuse: An ABCD study®', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108403

Lam BCP; Crawford JD; Lipnicki DM; Mewton L; Sachdev PS, 2021, 'Longitudinal examination and validation of the latent dementia phenotype factor in 10 harmonized cohort studies', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.055944

Mewton L; Lees B; Rao RT, 2020, 'Lifetime perspective on alcohol and brain health', The BMJ, 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4691

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