By Associate Professor Rebecca Koncz

Journal articles

Barratt M; Speer K; Deb S; Bellon M; Cahalan T; Simpson A; Koncz R; Limbu B; Bushell M, 2026, 'ASPIRE-Med project: a study protocol on an Australian psychotropic medicines training programme for disability support workers', BMJ Open, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-114351

Macfarlane S; Trollor JN; Koncz R; Sukkar M; Hullick C, 2026, 'Supporting the appropriate use of psychotropic medicines in aged and disability care', Australian Prescriber, 49, pp. 4 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.18773/austprescr.2026.006

Bellon M; Cahalan T; Deb S; Speer K; Bushell M; Limbu B; Simpson A; Koncz R; Barratt M, 2026, 'The Australian Psychotropic Medicines Training Program for Disability Support Workers: A Study Protocol in Easy Read', Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41252-026-00483-3

Sachdev PS; Bentvelzen AC; Kochan NA; Jiang J; Hosoki S; Koncz R; Chander RJ; Saks D; Aben HP; Acosta D; Andersen P; Assal F; Bae HJ; Biessels GJ; Blacker D; Bordet R; Briceno EM; Brodaty H; Brodtmann A; Caramelli P; Castro-Costa E; Chabriat H; Chen C; Clancy U; Cysique L; Decarli C; Ding D; Duering M; Engelhardt E; Gauthier S; Geranmayeh F; Godefroy O; Gorelick P; Greenberg SM; Jelic V; Jokinen H; Kalaria RN; Krishna M; Lancaster K; De Leeuw FE; Lim JS; Marseglia A; Marta-Moreno J; O'Brien JT; Pantoni L; Pase MP; Pendlebury ST; Rosenberg G; Sabayan B; Salvadori E; Samaras K; Sebastian IA; Seshadri S; Smith EE; Srikanth V; Stokes K; Sudo FK; Sveikata L; Valenzuela M; Wallin A; Wardlaw JM; Xu Q, 2025, 'Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia-The VasCog-2-WSO Criteria', JAMA Neurology, 82, pp. 1103 - 1112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.3242

Ratnamohan L; McInnis P; Kotze B; Koncz R; Cunich M; Heyne D, 2025, 'Roll call: Why the child and adolescent mental health sector must be present for severe school refusal', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59, pp. 493 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674251332727

Bentvelzen AC; Kochan NA; Saks DG; Chander RJ; Koncz R; Aam S; Alves GS; Briceno EM; Brodtmann A; Cerami C; Clancy U; Cysique L; Deary IJ; DeCarli C; Dodich A; Godefroy O; Jochems ACC; Jokinen H; Kang Y; Karayanidis F; Kessels RPC; Kyläheiko I; Lancaster K; Laukka EJ; Levine DA; Marseglia A; Pase MP; Peters R; Salmon DP; Salvadori E; Shirk SD; Stokes KA; Sudo FK; Summers MJ; Vandermorris S; Vasquez BP; Sachdev PS, 2025, 'Consensus-Harmonized Neuropsychological Assessment for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia', JAMA Network Open, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.47948

Koncz R; Say MJ; Gleason A; Hardy TA, 2024, 'The neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric manifestations of Susac syndrome: a brief review of the literature and future directions', Neurological Sciences, 45, pp. 5181 - 5187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-024-07672-9

Schiller D; Yu ANC; Alia-Klein N; Becker S; Cromwell HC; Dolcos F; Eslinger PJ; Frewen P; Kemp AH; Pace-Schott EF; Raber J; Silton RL; Stefanova E; Williams JHG; Abe N; Aghajani M; Albrecht F; Alexander R; Anders S; Aragón OR; Arias JA; Arzy S; Aue T; Baez S; Balconi M; Ballarini T; Bannister S; Banta MC; Barrett KC; Belzung C; Bensafi M; Booij L; Bookwala J; Boulanger-Bertolus J; Boutros SW; Bräscher AK; Bruno A; Busatto G; Bylsma LM; Caldwell-Harris C; Chan RCK; Cherbuin N; Chiarella J; Cipresso P; Critchley H; Croote DE; Demaree HA; Denson TF; Depue B; Derntl B; Dickson JM; Dolcos S; Drach-Zahavy A; Dubljević O; Eerola T; Ellingsen DM; Fairfield B; Ferdenzi C; Friedman BH; Fu CHY; Gatt JM; de Gelder B; Gendolla GHE; Gilam G; Goldblatt H; Gooding AEK; Gosseries O; Hamm AO; Hanson JL; Hendler T; Herbert C; Hofmann SG; Ibanez A; Joffily M; Jovanovic T; Kahrilas IJ; Kangas M; Katsumi Y; Kensinger E; Kirby LAJ; Koncz R; Koster EHW; Kozlowska K; Krach S; Kret ME; Krippl M; Kusi-Mensah K; Ladouceur CD; Laureys S; Lawrence A; Li CSR; Liddell BJ; Lidhar NK; Lowry CA; Magee K; Marin MF; Mariotti V; Martin LJ; Marusak HA; Mayer AV, 2024, 'The Human Affectome', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450

Bessell E; Kim JS; Chiem L; McDonald A; Thompson D; Glozier N; Simpson A; Parcsi L; Morris R; Koncz R, 2023, 'Effectiveness of Project ECHO Programs in Improving Clinician Knowledge and Confidence in Managing Complex Psychiatric Patients: a Waitlist-Controlled Study', Academic Psychiatry, 47, pp. 25 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01701-5

Koncz R; Thalamuthu A; Wen W; Catts VS; Dore V; Lee T; Mather KA; Slavin MJ; Wegner EA; Jiang J; Trollor JN; Ames D; Villemagne VL; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2022, 'The heritability of amyloid burden in older adults: the Older Australian Twins Study', Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 93, pp. 303 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-326677

Koncz R; Wen W; Makkar SR; Lam BCP; Crawford JD; Rowe CC; Sachdev P, 2022, 'The Interaction Between Vascular Risk Factors, Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, and Amyloid Burden in Older Adults', Journal of Alzheimer S Disease, 86, pp. 1617 - 1628, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-210358

Lennon MJ; Koncz R; Sachdev PS, 2021, 'Hypertension and Alzheimer's disease: is the picture any clearer?', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 34, pp. 142 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000684

Cromwell HC; Abe N; Barrett KC; Caldwell-Harris C; Gendolla GHE; Koncz R; Sachdev PS, 2020, 'Mapping the interconnected neural systems underlying motivation and emotion: A key step toward understanding the human affectome', Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.032

Jiang J; Liu T; Zhu W; Koncz R; Liu H; Lee T; Sachdev PS; Wen W, 2018, 'UBO Detector – A cluster-based, fully automated pipeline for extracting white matter hyperintensities', Neuroimage, 174, pp. 539 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.050

Koncz R; Sachdev PS, 2018, 'Are the brain's vascular and Alzheimer pathologies additive or interactive?', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 31, pp. 147 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/yco.0000000000000395

Koncz R; Mohan A; Dawes L; Thalamuthu A; Wright M; Ames D; Lee T; Wen W; Sachdev PS; Trollor J, 2017, 'Incidental findings on cerebral MRI in twins: the Older Australian Twins Study', Brain Imaging and Behavior: an international journal, 12, pp. 860 - 869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11682-017-9747-2

Takacs A; Koncz R; Mohan A; Sachdev PS, 2017, 'Forgetfulness, stress or mild dementia? Cognitive assessment of older patients', Medicine Today, 18, pp. 14 - 22, http://medicinetoday.com.au/2017/may/feature-article/forgetfulness-stress-or-mild-dementia-cognitive-assessment-older-patients

Koncz R; Wolfenden F; Hassed C; Chambers R; Cohen J; Glozier N, 2016, 'Mindfulness-based stress release program for university employees a pilot, waitlist-controlled trial and implementation replication', Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 58, pp. 1021 - 1027, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000000856

Conference Papers

Smith J; Trollor J; Koncz R; Portelli M, 2024, 'AGEING IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 62 - 63

Trollor J; Koncz R; McDonald J; Franklin C; Delves M, 2024, 'CLINICAL CONUNDRUMS: NEUROPSYCHIATRIC PRESENTATIONS AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 55 - 55

Koncz R, 2024, 'DEMENTIA ASSESSMENT IN PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: CLINICAL CHALLENGES AND APPROACHES', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 63 - 63

Koncz R, 2024, 'NAVIGATING NEUROPSYCHIATRIC PRESENTATIONS IN ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: CHALLENGES AND CLINICAL APPROACHES', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 56 - 56

Kang M; Koncz R; Cannon B; Remond L; Quine S, 2009, 'CONTENT ANALYSIS ELICITING THE 'REAL' SEXUAL HEALTH CONCERNS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS USING AN UNCONVENTIONAL SOURCE', in SEXUAL HEALTH, CSIRO PUBLISHING, pp. 354 - 355, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000271708000029&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Presentations

Koncz R; Thalamuthu A; Wen W; Catts VS; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2019, 'O5‐07‐06: THE HERITABILITY OF AMYLOID DEPOSITION AND ITS SHARED GENETIC BASIS WITH SMALL VESSEL DISEASE IN THE BRAINS OF OLDER PEOPLE', http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.4875

Koncz RE; Brennan A; Harris A, 2013, 'The effect of symptomatic improvement on gamma synchrony in psychosis: a pilot study.', presented at 12th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 13 May 2013 - 14 May 2013

Conference Abstracts

Curtis J; Trollor JN; Koncz R; Carter A; Sara G, 2026, 'ADDRESSING HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH TARGETED PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 60

Parveen S; Delves M; Koncz R; Trollor J; Wurth P; Keller A, 2026, 'DEPRESCRIBING IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY MENTAL HEALTH: FROM GUIDELINES TO PRACTICE', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 60

Koncz R; Meem L; Smith J; McDonald J; Johnston M, 2026, 'MEETING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF AUTISTIC PEOPLE: THE PSYCHIATRIST'S ROLE', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 60

Koncz R; Suzuki E; Keyes R; Trollor J, 2026, 'UPDATING THE POSITIVE CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH FRAMEWORKS FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR CLINICIANS', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 60

Koncz R, 2025, 'BEHAVIOURS OF CONCERN AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS IN PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: A COMMON BUT COMPLEX ASSOCIATION', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 59

Smith J; Einfeld S; Koncz R; Delves M; Gunaratne P, 2025, 'CLINICAL CONUNDRUMS: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND BEHAVIOURS OF CONCERN IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 59

Koncz R; Pistilli C; Bessell E; Kim J-S; Thompson D; McDonald A, 2022, 'THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECT ECHO IN BUILDING CAPACITY IN CLINICIANS WORKING WITH ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND COMORBID MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 56, pp. 141 - 141, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000792769900333&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Koncz R; Wen W; Crawford JD; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2018, 'Amyloid burden is independent of cerebrovascular burden, but hypertension promotes amyloid accumulation over time [Abstract P1-465]', in Alzheimer's & Dementia, Elsevier BV, Chicago, USA, Vol. 14, pp. P499 - P499, presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018, Chicago, USA, 22 July 2018 - 26 July 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.475

Reports

Li B; Gendera S; Bradbury B; O'Shea P; Badu E; Fisher KR; Koncz R; Trollor J, 2026, NDIS Mental Health Officers Program Evaluation Report, UNSW, Sydney, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/32306

Fisher K; Gendera S; Li B; Bradbury B; Badu E; O'Shea P; Koncz R; Trollor J, 2025, NDIS Mental Health Officer (NMHO) Program Evaluation Plan, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/31562

Preprints

Sachdev PS; Mohan A; Cheah SL; Takacs A; Lo JW; Koncz R; Crawford JD, Development and clinimetric testing of the Unified Drug-Induced Movement Disorders Scale (UDIMS), http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.21.22272729

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