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A/PROF NICK ALLEN



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Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW - ORYGEN
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/AllenN.html
Work: 8344 6325

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne
Master of Science University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

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
Sleep & circadian influences on mood & autonomic nervous system control of the heart Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL BRAIN: THE NEURAL BASIS OF THE LINK BETWEEN DEPRESSED MOOD AND SOCIAL COGNITION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
PREVENTIVE AND EARLY INTERVENTION STRATEGIES IN EMERGING MENTAL DISORDERS IN YOUNG PEOPLE Chief Investigator NHMRC Centres of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) 01/01/2005
Brain development during adolescence and the emergence of depression: A longitudinal MRI study. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
FIRST EPISODE DEPRESSION IN YOUNG PEOPLE: AN FMRI STUDY OF RESPONSES TO IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED, SOCIAL AND NON-SOCIAL REWARDS. Chief Investigator PFIZER AUST PTY LTD Neuro Science Research Grants 01/01/2008

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

  • Maternal responses to adolescent positive affect are associated with adolescents' reward neuroanatomy
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 247-256
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  • Recurrence of major depressive disorder is predicted by inhibited startle magnitude while recovered
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 112
    Issue: 1-3
    Page numbers: 243-249
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  • Responsiveness to drug cues and natural rewards in opiate addiction
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Archives of General Psychiatry
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 205-213
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  • Variations in cortical folding patterns are related to individual differences in temperament
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging
    Volume: 172
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 68-74
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Major Reference Works

  • A guide to what works for depression:A guide to what works for depression
    Year: 2009
    Reference Work Title: A guide to what works for depression
    Publisher: beyondblue - The Depression Initiative(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Adolescent emotional development and the emergence of depressive disorders
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • The importance of affective development for the emergence of depressive disorders during adolescence


    Year: 2008
    Book: Adolescent emotional development and the emergence of depressive disorders
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Journal Articles

  • Effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for anxiety in children and adolescents


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 188
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 355-359
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  • Impaired theory of mind in first-episode schizophrenia: comparison with community, university and depressed controls


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 99
    Page numbers: 96-102
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  • Influence of parental and grandparental major depressive disorder on behavior problems in early childhood: a three-generation study


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 53-60
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  • Maternal socialization of positive affect: the impact of invalidation on adolescent emotion regulation and depressive symptomatology


     


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Child Development
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1415 - 1431
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  • Mechanisms of anger and treatment outcome in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 142-149
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  • Mood induced cognitive and emotional reactivity, life stress, and the prediction of depressive relapse


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1142-1150
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  • Neuroanatomical correlates of temperament in early adolescents


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 682-693
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  • Prefrontal and amygdala volumes are related to adolescents' affective behaviors during parent-adolescent interactions


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 105
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3652-3657
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  • The impact of intensive mindfulness training in executive cognition, cognitive style and affect


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cognitive Therapy and Research
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 303-322
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  • Electrophysiological evidence that drug cues have greater salience than other affective stimuli in opiate addiction
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Psychopharmacology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 836
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  • Interaction of parenting experiences and brain structure in the prediction of depressive symptoms in adolescents
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Archives of General Psychiatry
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 65
    Page numbers: 1377-1385
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  • Maternal meta-emotion philosophy and socialization of adolescent affect: the moderating role of adolescent temperament
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Family Psychology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 688 - 700
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  • The emergence of depression in adolescence: Development of the prefrontal cortex and the representation of reward
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1-19
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  • Therapeutic alliance and change in psychiatric symptoms in adolescents and young adults receiving drug treatment
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Substance Use
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 325-339
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Evolution, social cognition and depressed mood: exploring the relationship between depression and social risk taking
    Year: 2007
    Book: Evolution and the Social Mind
    Publisher: Psychology Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A combined spectroscopic and functional MRI investigation of the dorsal anterior cingulate region in opiate addiction
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Molecular Psychiatry
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 691-702
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  • Early intervention for depressive disorders in young people: the opportunity and the (lack of evidence
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 187
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: s15-s17
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  • Electrophysiological evidence of the motivational salience of drug cues in opiate addiction
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 1203-1209
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  • Neuronal, physiological and brain-behavioural abnormalities in opiate-addicted individuals
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Molecular Psychiatry
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 611
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  • The impact of co-occurring mood and anxiety disorders among substance-abusing youth
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 105-112
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Cognitive Psychotherapy
    Year: 2006
    Book: An introduction to the psychotherapies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Psychological versus biological treatments
    Year: 2006
    Book: Psychology
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Brisbane)
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  • Pubertal development and the emergence of the gender gap in mood disorders: A developmental and evolutionary synthesis
    Year: 2006
    Book: Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Women
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Lateralization of the Startle Reflex Circuit in Humans: An Examination With Monoural Probes Following Unilateral Temporal Lobe Resection


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Behavioral Neuroscience
    Volume: 120
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 24-39
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  • Mindfulness-based psychotherapies: a review of conceptual foundations, empirical evidence and practical considerations


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 285-294
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  • Darwinian models of depression: A review of evolutionary accounts of mood and mood disorders
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 815-826
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  • Effectiveness of complementary and self-help treatments for depression in children and adolescents
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 185
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 368-372
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  • Genes for susceptibility to mental disorder are not mental disorder: Clarifying the target of evolutionary analysis and the role of the environment
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 405-406
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  • Relationship Patterns Associated with Dimension of Vulnerability to Psychopathology
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cognitive Therapy and Research
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 733-746
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  • Reply
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 819-821
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  • The neurobiological basis of temperament: Towards a better understanding of psychopathology
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 511-525
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Mindfulness, compassion for self, and compassion for others: Implications for understanding the psychopathology and treatment of depression
    Year: 2005
    Book: Compassion: Its Nature and Use in Psychotherapy
    Publisher: Brunner Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Relationship patterns associated with dimensions of vulnerability to psychopathology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cognitive Therapy and Research
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 737-750
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(Philadelphia)
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  • Simple metric for scaling motor threshold based on scalp-cortex distance: Application to studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neurophysiology
    Volume: 94
    Page numbers: 4520-4527
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Depressed Mood as an Interpersonal Strategy: The Importance of Relational Models
    Year: 2004
    Book: Relational Models Theory. A Contemporary Overview
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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Journal Articles

  • "Machiavellian" intelligence as a basis for the evolution of cooperative dispositions
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Political Science Review
    Volume: 98
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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  • Infant affect during parent-infant interaction at 3 and 6 months: Differences between mothers and fathers and influence of parent history of depression
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Infancy
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 61-84
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Adaptive social reasoning in depressed mood and depressive vulnerability.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cognition and Emotion
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 647-670
    Publisher: Psychology Press
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  • Comorbidity as a predictor of symptom change after treatment in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 191
    Page numbers: 93-99
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • MMPI-2 as a predictor of change in PTSD symptom clusters: a further analysis of the Forbes et al. (2002) data set.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Personality Assessment
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 183-186
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(Philadelphia)
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  • MMPI-2 based subgroups of veterans with combat-related PTSD.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 191
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 531-537
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • NEO five-factor inventory scores: Psychometric properties in a community sample.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 140-149
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  • On the nature of cardiovascular activation at an arousal from sleep.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Sleep
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 543-551
    Publisher: American Academy of Sleep Medicine(Minnesota)
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  • Seasonality and circadian phase delay: Prospective evidence that winter lowering of mood is associated with a shift towards eveningness.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 76
    Page numbers: 15-22
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  • Seasonality and circadian phase delay: prospective evidence that winter lowering of mood is associated with a shift towards Eveningness.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 76
    Page numbers: 15-22
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  • The social risk hypothesis of depressed mood: evolutionary, psychosocial, and neurobiological perspectives.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Psychological Bulletin
    Volume: 129
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 887-913
    Publisher: American Psychological Association(Philadelphia)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Is weakened circadian rhythmicity a characteristic of neuroticism?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 72
    Page numbers: 281-289
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Longitudinal investigation of mood variability and the ffm: neuroticism predicts variability in extended states of positive and negative affect
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Personality and Individual Differences
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 1217-1228
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  • Mood and the circadian system: Investigation of a circadian component in positive affect
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chronobiology International
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1151-1169
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  • Seasonality and Personality: A Prospective Investigation of Five Factor Model Correlates of Mood Seasonality
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Journal of Personality
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 457-468
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  • The Evolution of political Intelligence: Simulation Results
    Year: 2002
    Journal: British Journal of Political Science
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 613-639
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • The MMPI-2 As a Predictor of Symptom Change Following Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Personality Assessment
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 321-336
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(Philadelphia)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A comparison of the composite international diagnostic interview (cidi auto) with clinical assessment in diagnosing mood and anxiety disorders
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 224-230
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • A longitudinal investigation of seasonal variation in mood
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Chronobiology International
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 875-891
    Publisher: Marcel Dekker(New York)
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  • Early extubation after cardiac surgery: emotional status in the early postoperative period
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 439-444
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co(Pennsylvania)
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  • Improving access for rural Australians to treatment for anxiety and depression: The University of Melbourne Depression and Anxiety research and Treatment group - Bendigo Health Care Group initiative
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Rural Health
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 91-96
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia
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  • The role of positive emotions in clinical psychology
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Brolga
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 33-40
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