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Newall HD; Myles NG; Ward PB; Samaras K; Shiers D; Curtis J, 2012, 'Efficacy of metformin for prevention of weight gain in psychiatric populations: A review', International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 27, pp. 69 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/YIC.0b013e32834d0a5b

Eapen V; Faure-brac G; Ward PB; Hazell P; Barton G; Asghari-Fardi M; Dullur P; Asghari M, 2012, 'Evaluation of weight gain and metabolic parameters among adolescent psychiatric inpatients: Role of health promotion and life style intervention programs', Journal of Metabolic Syndrome, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2167-0943.1000109

Todd J; Michie P; Schall U; Ward PB; Catts SV, 2012, 'Mismatch negativity (MMN) reduction in schizophrenia-Impaired prediction-error generation, estimation or salience?', International Journal of Psychophysiology, 83, pp. 222 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.10.003

Kaur M; Lagopoulos J; Ward PB; Watson TL; Naismith SL; Hickie I; Hermens DF, 2012, 'Mismatch Negativity/P3a Complex in Young People with Psychiatric Disorders: A Cluster Analysis', PLoS ONE, 7, pp. Article numbere51871, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051871

Kaur M; Battisti RA; Lagopoulos J; Ward PB; Hickie I; Hermens DF, 2012, 'Neurophysiological biomarkers support bipolar-spectrum disorders within psychosis cluster', Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 37, pp. 313 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/jpn.110081

Ward PB; Rosenbaum S; Ward PK; Taylor L; Lagopoulos J; Watkins A; Barry B; Trapp EG; Curtis J, 2012, 'Poster #164 WORKING OUT FIRST EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA: NEUROANATOMICAL, COGNITIVE AND CLINICAL CHANGES FOLLOWING AN AEROBIC EXERCISE INTERVENTION', Schizophrenia Research, 136, pp. S340 - S340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(12)70996-9

Mowszowski L; Ward PB; Diamond K; Paradise M; Kaur M; Lewis SJG; Hickie I; Hermens DF; Naismith S, 2012, 'Reduced temporal mismatch negativity in late-life depression: An event-related potential index of cognitive deficit and functional disability?', Journal of Affective Disorders, 138, pp. 71 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2011.12.028

Lewin TJ; Carr VJ; Conrad A; Sly KA; Tirupati S; Cohen M; Ward PB; Coombs T, 2012, 'Shift climate profiles and correlates in acute psychiatric inpatient units', Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47, pp. 1429 - 1440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-011-0448-7

Curtis J; Samaras K; Ward P; Watkins A; Newall H, 2011, 'METABOLIC COMPLICATIONS IN FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS: DEFINING THE ISSUES, NEURAL SUBSTRATES AND DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE EARLY INTERVENTION FRAMEWORK', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 45, pp. A7 - A7, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000290992200020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Ward PB, 2011, 'WORKING OUT SCHIZOPHRENIA: HOW AEROBIC EXERCISE MAY COUNTERACT STRUCTURAL BRAIN CHANGES, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 45, pp. A7 - A8, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000290992200022&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasser PE; Schall U; Todd J; Michie P; Ward PB; Johnston P; Helmbold K; Case V; Søyland A; Tooney P; Thompson PM, 2011, 'Gray matter deficits, mismatch negativity, and outcomes in schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 37, pp. 131 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbp060

Curtis J; Henry C; Watkins A; Newall H; Samaras K; Ward PB, 2011, 'Metabolic abnormalities in an early psychosis service: a retrospective naturalistic, cross-sectional study', Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 5, pp. 108 - 114

Kaur M; Battisti RA; Ward PB; Ahmed AN; Hickie IB; Hermens D, 2011, 'MMN/P3a deficits in first episode psychosis: Comparing schizophrenia-spectrum and affective-spectrum subgroups', Schizophrenia Research, 130, pp. 203 - 209, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MiamiImageURL&_cid=271176&_user=37161&_pii=S0920996411001733&_check=y&_origin=search&_zone=rslt_list_item&_coverDate=2011-08-31&wchp=dGLzVlV-zSkzk&md5=e8960227e9f351775068c2702c1a2faf/1-s2.0-S0920996411001733-main.pdf

Shine JM; Ward PB; Pearson M; Lewis SJ; Naismith S, 2011, 'Utilising functional MRI (fMRI) to explore the freezing phenomenon in Parkinson's disease', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 18, pp. 807 - 810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2011.02.003

Rasser PE; Cohen M; Peck G; Carr VJ; Ward PB; Thompson PM; Johnston PJ; Baker A; Schall U, 2010, 'CEREBELLAR GREY MATTER DEFICITS, CANNABIS USE AND FIRST-EPISODE SCHIZOPHRENIA IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 44, pp. A38 - A38, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000282954700102&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Paulik G; Atkinson R; Carr V; Clark S; Curtis J; Langdon R; Loughland C; Michie P; O'Donnell M; Rasser P; Seal M; Stain H; Thienel R; Todd J; Tooney P; Ward P; Weickert T; Thompson P; Schall U, 2010, 'MINDS IN TRANSITION (MINT): A PROSPECTIVE STUDY EXAMINING NEUROCOGNITIVE CORRELATES OF TRANSITION FROM ULTRA-HIGH RISK MENTAL STATE TO SCHIZOPHRENIA', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 44, pp. A25 - A25, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000282954700066&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Guastella A; Langdon R; Redoblado-Hodge A; Ward PB; Scott E, 2010, 'OXYTOCIN AS A TREATMENT TO IMPROVE SOCIAL FUNCTIONING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 44, pp. A10 - A10, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000282954700020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Schall U; Rasser PE; Fulham R; Todd J; Johnston PJ; Ward PB; Thompson PM; Michie PT, 2010, 'PHENOTYPING OF SCHIZOPHRENIA BY MULTI-MODAL BRAIN IMAGING', AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 44, pp. A37 - A37, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000282954700100&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Rasser PE; Schall U; Peck G; Cohen M; Johnston PJ; Khoo K; Carr VJ; Ward PB; Thompson PM, 2010, 'Cerebellar grey matter deficits in first-episode schizophrenia mapped using cortical pattern matching', Neuroimage, 53, pp. 1175 - 1180

Lagopoulos J; Ward PB; Little CL; Hickie IB; Lagopoulos ; Naismith S, 2010, 'Fronto-striatal correlates of impaired implicit sequence learning in major depression: an fMRI study', Journal of Affective Disorders, 125, pp. 256 - 261

Hermens D; Ward PB; Redoblado Hoge MA; Kaur M; Hickie IB; Naismith S, 2010, 'Impaired MMN/P3a complex in first episode psychosis: Cognitive and psychosocial associations', Progress in Neuro - Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 34, pp. 822 - 829

Langdon R; Ward PB; Coltheart M, 2010, 'Reasoning anomalies associated with delusions in schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 36, pp. 321 - 330

Hermens D; Lubman D; Ward PB; Hickie IB; Naismith S, 2009, 'Amphetamine psychosis: A model for studying the onset and course of psychosis', Medical Journal of Australia, 190

Sly KA; Lewin TJ; Vaughan VJ; Conrad AM; Cohen M; Ward PB; Coombs T, 2009, 'Measuring observed Mental state profiles in acute psychiatric inpatients', Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 44, pp. 151 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-008-0427-9

Ward PB, 2009, 'NEURAL PLASTICITY AND STRUCTURAL BRAIN CHANGE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: ARE WE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS?', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, pp. 218 - 218

Langdon R; Ward PB, 2009, 'Taking the perspective of the other contributes to awareness of Illness in schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, pp. 1003 - 1011

Schall U; Rasser P; Todd J; Michie PT; Ward PB; Johnston P; Helmbold K; Case V; Tooney PA; Thompson PM, 2008, 'A SIMPLE AUDITORY EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL IS LINKED TO CEREBRAL GREY MATTER PATHOLOGY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA', Schizophrenia Research, 102, pp. 114 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(08)70347-5

Carr VJ; Lewin TJ; Sly KA; Conrad A; Tirupati S; Cohen M; Ward PB; Coombs T, 2008, 'Adverse incidents in acute psychiatric inpatient units: rates, correlates and pressures', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 42, pp. 267 - 282

Michie P; Budd TW; Fulham WR; Hughes ME; Jamadar S; Johnston PN; Karayanidis F; Matthews NT; Rasser PE; Schall U; Thompson PW; Todd J; Ward PB; Yabe H, 2008, 'The potential of new understandings of normal and abnormal cognition by integration of neuroimaging and behavioural data: Not an excerise in carrying coals to Newcastle', Brain Imaging and Behavior, 2, pp. 318 - 326

Hickie IB; Naismith SL; Ward PB; Little CL; Pearson M; Scott EM; Mitchell P; Wilhelm K; Parker G, 2007, 'Erratum to "Psychomotor slowing in older patients with major depression: Relationships with blood flow in the caudate nucleus and white matter lesions" [Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 155(3)(2007)211-220] (DOI:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.01.006)', Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, 156, pp. 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.08.001

Henry C; Kalucy M; Curtis J; O Donnell MC; Ward PB; Watkins A; Bowrah V; Stewart K, 2007, 'Body and soul - Managing the metabolic complications of treatment in the early psychosis population', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41, pp. A32 - A32

Hickie IB; Ward PB; Little CL; Pearson M; Scott E; Mitchell PB; Wilhelm KA; Parker GB; Naismith S, 2007, 'Psychomotor slowing in older patients with major depression: Relationships with blood flow in the caudate nucleus and white matter lesions', Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Section, 155, pp. 211 - 220

Hickie IB; Ward PB; Little CL; Pearson M; Scott E; Mitchell PB; Wilhelm KA; Parker GB; Naismith S, 2007, 'Psychomotor slowing in older patients with major depression: Relationships with blood flow in the caudate nucleus and white matter lesions (vol 155, pg 211, 2007)', Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Section, 156, pp. 275 - 275

Hickie IB; Ward PB; Scott E; Mitchell PB; Schofield PR; Scimone A; Wilhelm KA; Parker GB; Naismith S, 2007, 'Serotonin transporter gene status predicts caudate nucleus but not amygdala or hippocampal volumes in older persons with major depression', Journal of Affective Disorders, 98, pp. 137 - 142

Langdon R; McLaren J; Polito V; Coltheart M; Ward PB, 2007, 'Willed action in schizophrenia', Psychiatry Research, 150, pp. 193 - 197

Naismith SL; Hickie IB; Ward PB; Scott E; Little C, 2006, 'Impaired implicit sequence learning in depression: A probe for frontostriatal dysfunction?', Psychological Medicine, 36, pp. 313 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291705006835

Cohen M; Carr V; Ward PB; Ehlkes T; Johnston P; Thienel R; Schall U, 2006, '01-03 fMRI in schizophrenia and cannabis users.', Acta Neuropsychiatr, 18, pp. 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0924270800031859

Ward PB; Meyer L; Stone E; Connaughton E; Metcalf K; Schall U; Todd J; Johnston P; Michie PT, 2006, '0315 DIFFERENTIAL MISMATCH NEGATIVITY (MMN) AMPLITUDES IN FIRST-EPISODE AND CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS: EFFECTS OF DEVIANT PROBABILITY', Schizophrenia Research, 86, pp. S72 - S72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(06)70214-6

Ward PB; Stone E; Meyer L; Connaughton E; Metcalf K; Schall U; Todd J; Michie PT, 2006, '0321 MISMATCH NEGATIVITY (MMN), EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND SYMPTOM SEVERITY IN FIRST-EPISODE AND CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA', Schizophrenia Research, 86, pp. S72 - S72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0920-9964(06)70215-8

Ward P, 2006, '08-04 Endophenotypic biobehavioural markers for schizophrenia: how close are we to finding the Holy Grail?', Acta Neuropsychiatr, 18, pp. 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0924270800032324

Langdon R; Corner T; McLaren J; Coltheart M; Ward PB, 2006, 'Attentional orienting triggered by gaze in schizophrenia', Neuropsychologia, 44, pp. 417 - 429

Lagopoulos J; Gordon E; Ward PB; Lagopoulos , 2006, 'Differential BOLD responses to auditory target stimuli associated with skin conductance response', ACTA Neuropsychiatrica, 18, pp. 105 - 114

Langdon R; Coltheart M; Ward PB, 2006, 'Empathetic perspective-taking is impaired in schizophrenia: Evidence from a study of emotion attribution and theory of mind', Cognitive neuropsychiatry, 11, pp. 133 - 155

Langdon R; Corner T; McLaren J; Ward PB; Coltheart M, 2006, 'Externalizing and personalizing biases in persecutory delusions: The relationship with poor insight and theory-of-mind', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, pp. 699 - 713

Hickie I; Ward PB; Scott E; Little CL; Naismith S, 2006, 'Imparied implicit sequence learning in depression: a probe for frontostriatal dysfunction?', Psychological Medicine, 36, pp. 313 - 323

Ward PB; Meyer L; Stone E; Connaughton E; Schall U, 2006, 'Modulation of MMN amplitude with decreasing deviant probability in patients with schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects', International Journal of Psychophysiology, 61, pp. 344 - 345

Fulham R; Michie P; Ward P; Hughes M; Schall U, 2006, 'Multimodal imaging of the mismatch negativity deficit in schizophrenia.', Acta Neuropsychiatr, 18, pp. 250 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0924270800030271

Clunas NJ; Ward PB, 2005, 'Auditory recovery cycle dysfunction in schizophrenia: A study using event-related potentials', Psychiatry Research, 136, pp. 17 - 25, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TBV-4GMJ8Y0-2/2/e2bc000b4e526ce8646b1b066aff544c

Rasser PE; Johnston PN; Lagopoulos J; Ward PB; Schall U; Thienel R; Bender S; Toga AW; Thompson P; Lagopoulos , 2005, 'Functional MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching', Neuroimage, 26, pp. 941 - 951, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WNP-4FY9MB7-3/2/02644aa0f4f4723dab2b359c78700942

Langdon R; Corner T; McLaren JA; Coltheart M; Ward PB, 2005, 'Orienting attention in the direction of another person`s gaze is abnormal in schizophrenia', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, pp. 154 - 154


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