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PROF ANDREW MACKINNON



Contact Details

Organization: Centre for Youth Mental Health
Position: PROFESSORIAL FELLOW-RESEARCH DESIGN
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
youth mental health Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1977
PhD University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1985

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Australian Psychological Society Australian Psychological Society Early Career Award 31-Dec-1993

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INDICATED PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR ANXIETY Chief Investigator AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Project Grants (NHMRC) 01/01/2009

Additional Grant and Contract Information

NHMRC Fellow, 1994.

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Education, atrophy, and cognitive change in an epidemiological sample in early old age
    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 218-226
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  • Fluid intelligence is independently associated with all-cause mortality over 17 years in an elderly community sample: an investigation of potential mechanisms
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Intelligence
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 551-560
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  • Is my patient suffering clinically significant emotional distress? Demonstrations of a probabilities approach to evaluating algorithms for screening distress
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Supportive Care in Cancer
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 1455 - 1462
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  • Is suicidality distinguishable from depression? Evidence from a community-based sample
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 208-215
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  • Pituitary volume and early treatment response in drug-naive first-episode psychosis patients
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 113
    Page numbers: 65-71
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Statistical treatment of withdrawal in trials of anti-dementia drugs


    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 372
    Page numbers: 1382-1383
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  • The association of APOE genotype and cognitive decline in interaction with risk factors in a 65-69 year old community sample


    Year: 2008
    Journal: BMC Geriatrics
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 14-23
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  • Factor structure of the developmental behavior checklist using confirmatory factor analysis of polytomous items
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Applied Measurement
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 265-280
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  • Gender differences in depression and anxiety across the adult lifespan: the role of psychosocial mediators
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 983-998
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An investigation of the measurement properties of the spot-the-word test in a community sample
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychological Assessment
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 459 - 468
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  • Association analysis of 15 polymorphisms within 10 candidate genes for antisocial behavioural traits
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychiatric Genetics
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 299-303
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  • Constraints perceived by psychiatrists working in community mental health services. Development and pilot study of a novel instrument
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Community Mental Health Journal
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 609-618
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  • The brain reserve hypothesis, brain atrophy and aging
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Gerontology
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 82-95
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  • The voices acceptance and action scale (VAAS): pilot data
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Psychology
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 593 - 606
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  • Validity of the mental health component scale of the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey (MCS-12) as measure of common mental disorders in the general population
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychiatry Research
    Volume: 152
    Page numbers: 63-71
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • An Instrument to Measure Engagement in Life: Factor Analysis and Associations with Sociodemographic, Health and Cognition Measures


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Gerontology
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 188-198
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  • Development and validation of the beliefs and behaviour questionnaire (BBQ)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Patient Education and Counseling
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 50-60
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  • Effects of parental mental health of an education and skills training program for parents of young children with autism: a randomized controlled trial
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 561-569
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  • Online randomized controlled trial of brief and full cognitive behaviour therapy for depression
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 1737-1746
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  • Paediatric quality of life instruments: a review of the impact of the conceptual framework on outcomes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 311 - 318
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  • Psychopathology in young people with intellectual disability
    Year: 2006
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 296
    Issue: 16
    Page numbers: 1981-1989
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  • Search for a Common Cause Factor amongst Cognitive, Speed and Biological Variables Using Narrow Age Cohorts
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Gerontology
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 243-257
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  • The Law of Attrition Revisited
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: e20
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  • The effect of web based depression interventions on self reported help seeking: randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN77824516]
    Year: 2006
    Journal: BMC Psychiatry
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 13
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Psychiatric disorders and depression in multiple sclerosis outpatients: impact of disability and interferon beta therapy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurological Sciences
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 255-262
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  • Structure of beliefs about the helpfulness of interventions for depression and schizophrenia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 877-883
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Exploring the relationships between sensory, physiological, genetic and health measures in relation to the common cause hypothesis
    Year: 2004
    Book: New frontiers in cognitive aging
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • A National Depression Index for Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 181
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: s52-s56
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  • Correlates of the affective impact of auditory hallucinations in psychotic disorders
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 163-171
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  • Factors associated with compliance and resistance to command hallucinations
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 192
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 357-362
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  • Interrater reliability, prevalence, and relation to ICD-10 diagnoses of the diagnostic criteria for psychosomatic research in consultation-liaison psychiatry patients
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Psychosomatics
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 386-393
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  • On the non-significance of internal versus external auditory hallucinations
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 69
    Page numbers: 1-6
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  • The Canberra longitudinal study: design, aims, methodology, outcomes and recent empirical investigations
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neuropsychology, Development and Cognition - Section B
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2-3
    Page numbers: 169-195
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  • The health of Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf war: factor analysis of self-reported symptoms
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 1014-1020
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Assessment of change with the developmental behaviour checklist
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 210-212
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  • Command hallucinations and violence: implications for detention and treatment
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Psychiatry Psychology and Law
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 97-107
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  • Improving screening accuracy for dementia in a community sample by augmenting cognitive testing with informant report
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 358-366
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  • The combination of cognitive testing and an informant questionnaire in screening for dementia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Age and Ageing
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 541-547
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Change in cognitive functioning associated with apoE genotype in a community sample of older adults


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Psychology and Aging
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 194-208
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  • Screening young people for autism with the developmental behavior checklist
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1369 - 1375
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  • Screening young people for autism with the developmental behavior checklist
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1369-1375
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The "Common Cause Hypothesis" of cognitive aging: evidence for not only a common factor but also specific associations of age with vision and grip strength in a cross-sectional analysis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Psychology and Aging
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 588-599
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