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DR LISA PHILLIPS



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: SENIOR LECTURER/PLACEMENT CO-ORDINATOR
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/PhillipsL.html
Work: 9326 4774
Fax: 9326 7616
Level: 12
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
psychological treatment youth mental health Australia
stress and coping mental health Australia
psychosis prevention, onset of psychosis Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of Utah Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1993
4th year equivalent health psychology course La Trobe University 31-Dec-1995
Master of Psychology Flinders University of South Australia 31-Dec-1996
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 24-Aug-2005

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Australian Psychological Society Early Career Research Award 01-Oct-2008

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
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTION FOR PALAUAN YOUTH AT GENETIC RISK FOR PSYCHOSIS Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Research Project Grants (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH) 01/05/2006

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

  • 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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  • Strategies used by psychotic individuals to cope with life stress and symptoms of illness: a systematic review
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Anxiety, Stress & Coping
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 371-410
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Development of psychotherapy in the pre-psychotic phase: Comparison of three approaches- Australia, Germany & UK.
    Year: 2008
    Book: Psychotherapies for the Psychoses: Theoretical, Cultural, and Clinical Integration
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Development of psychotherapy in the pre-psychotic phase: comparison of three approaches - Australia, Germany and UK
    Year: 2008
    Book: Psychotherapies for the psychoses - theoretical, cultural and clinical integration
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • An MRI study of pituitary volume and parasuicidal behavior in teenagers with first-presentation borderline personality disorder


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging
    Volume: 162
    Page numbers: 273-277
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  • Antiglucocorticoid and related treatments for psychosis (protocol)


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
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  • Adhesio interthalamica in individuals at high-risk for developing psychosis and patients with psychotic disorders
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1708-1714
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  • Anatomical abnormalities of the anterior cingulate cortex prior to psychosis onset: an MRI study of ultra-high risk individuals
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Biological Psychiatry
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 758-765
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  • Corpus callosum shape alterations in individuals prior to the onset of psychosis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Pilot study evaluating the effect of massage therapy on stress, anxiety and aggression in a young adult psychiatric inpatient unit
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 2008
    Page numbers: 414-422
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  • Prevalence of large cavum septi pellucidi in ultra high-risk individuals and patients with psychotic disorders
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 105
    Page numbers: 236-244
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  • Validation of “prodromal” criteria to detect individuals at ultra high risk of psychosis: 2 year follow up
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 1-3
    Issue: 105
    Page numbers: 10-17
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  • White matter volume changes in people who develop psychosis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 193
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 210-5
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • High risk/prodrome/early intervention
    Year: 2007
    Book: The year in schizophrenia
    Publisher: Clinical Publishing(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Neuroimaging and emerging psychotic disorders: The Melbourne ultra-high risk studies


    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Review of Psychiatry
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 373-381
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  • Antibodies to infectious agents in individuals at Ultra-High Risk for psychosis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Biological Psychiatry
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 1215-1217
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  • Author Reply: Hippocampal and amygdala volumes acocrding to psychosis stage and diagnosis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Archives of General Psychiatry
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 252-253
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  • Cognitive decline following psychosis onset: data from the PACE clinic
    Year: 2007
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 191
    Issue: s1
    Page numbers: s52-s57
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  • Declining transition rate in Ultra High Risk (prodromal) services: dilution or reduction of risk?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 673-681
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  • HPA axis functioning associated with transition to psychosis: combined DEX/CRH test
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Psychiatric Research
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 446-450
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  • Medium term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial of interventions for young people at ultra high risk of psychosis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 96
    Page numbers: 25-33
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  • Neuroprotection in emerging psychotic disorders
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Early Intervention in Psychiatry
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 114-127
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  • PACE: a specialised service for young people at risk of psychotic disorders
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 187
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: s43-s46
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  • Pituitary volume in teenagers with first-presentation borderline personality disorder
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging
    Volume: 156
    Page numbers: 257-261
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  • Stress and HPA-axis functioning in young people at ultra high risk for psychosis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Psychiatric Research
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2007
    Page numbers: 561-569
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  • Stress and psychosis: Towards the development of new models of investigation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical Psychology Review
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 307-317
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Prodromal Period: Pharmacological and Behavioural Interventions


    Year: 2006
    Book: The Early Course of Schizophrenia
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Assessing and Managing Stress
    Year: 2006
    Book: Working with people at high risk of developing psychosis
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Journal Articles

  • Evidencia por neuroimagen estructural de procesos patologicos multiples en diferentes estadios del desarollo cerebral de la esquizofrenia


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 66-91
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  • Hippocampal and amygdala volumes according to psychosis stage and diagnosis: A magnetic resonance imaging study of chronic schizophrenia, first-episode psychosis and ultra-high risk individuals


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Archives of General Psychiatry
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 139-149
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  • Early-onset of symptoms predicts conversion to non-affective psychosis in ultra-high risk individuals
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 67-76
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  • Generalized and Specific Cognitive Performance in Clinical High-Risk Cohorts: A Review Highlighting Potential Vulnerability Markers for Psychosis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 538-555
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  • Recent approaches to psychological interventions for people at risk of psychosis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 256
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 159-173
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  • Stress, the hippocampus and the hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis: implications for the development of psychotic disorders
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 725-741
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  • Testing the Ultra High Risk (prodromal) criteria for the prediction of psychosis in a clinical sample of young people
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 57-66
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Hippocampal and anterior cingulate morphology in subjects at ultra-high risk for psychosis: the role of family history of psychotic illness
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 75
    Page numbers: 295-301
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Mapping the onset of psychosis: the comprehensive assessment of at-risk mental states
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 964-971
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  • Memory impairments identified in people at ultra-high risk for psychosis who later develop first-episode psychosis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 162
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 71-78
    Publisher: American Psychiatric Press(Washington DC)
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  • Obstetric complications and transition to psychosis in an "ultra' high risk sample
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 460-466
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Pituitary volume predicts future transition to psychosis in individuals at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biological Psychiatry
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 417-423
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  • Prepsychotic phase of schizophrenia and related disorders: recent progress and future opportunities
    Year: 2005
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 187
    Issue: 48
    Page numbers: S33-S44
    Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists(London)
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  • Structural brain imaging evidence for multiple pathological processes at different stages of brain development in schizophrenia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 672-696
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  • Sustained attention in young people at high risk of psychosis does not predict transition to psychosis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 79
    Page numbers: 127-136
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Treating schizophrenia in the prodromal phase
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Book Chapters

  • Intervention in the prepsychotic phase of schizophrenia and related disorders: towards effective and safe strategies for earliest intervention in psychotic disorders
    Year: 2004
    Book: Search for the Cause of Schizophrenia: Vol.V
    Publisher: Steinkopff Verlag(Darmstadt)
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Journal Articles

  • Risk factors for psychosis in an ultra high-risk group: psychopathology and clinical features


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 67
    Page numbers: 131-142
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  • Pituitary volume in psychosis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 185
    Page numbers: 5-10
    Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists(London)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • "Closing in": what features predict the onset of first episode psychosis within an ultra-high risk group?
    Year: 2003
    Book: Schizophrenies debutantes. Diagnostic et modalites therapeutiques
    Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext Ltd(Montrouge)
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Journal Articles

  • Impairment of olfactory identification ability in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis who later develop schizophrenia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 160
    Page numbers: 1790-1794
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  • Morphology of the anterior cingulate cortex in young men at ultra-high risk of developing a psychotic illness
    Year: 2003
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 182
    Page numbers: 518-524
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  • Neuroanatomical abnormalities before and after onset of psychosis: a cross-sectional and logitudinal MRI comparison
    Year: 2003
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 361
    Page numbers: 281-288
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  • Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in first espisode psychosis and ultra high-risk individuals
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 831-843
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  • Psychosis prediction: 12-month follow up of a high-risk ("prodromal") group
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 21-32
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Spatial working memory ability is a marker of risk-for psychosis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 1239-1247
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • The "Close-in" or ultra high-risk model: a safe and effective strategy for research and clinical intervention in prepsychotic mental disorder
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 771-790
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  • The initial prodrome to bipolar affective disorder: prospective case studies
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Affective Disorders
    Volume: 77
    Page numbers: 79-85
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • "Closing in": what features predict the onset of first episode psychosis within an ultra high risk group?
    Year: 2002
    Book: The early stages of schizophrenia
    Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing(Adelaide)
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Journal Articles

  • Cannabis use is not associated with the development of psychosis in an "ultra" high-risk group
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 800-806
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  • Non-reduction in hippocampal volume is associated with higher risk of psychosis
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 145-158
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  • Prediction and prevention of transition to psychosis in young people at incipient risk for schizophrenia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: American Journal of Medical Genetics
    Volume: 114
    Page numbers: 929-937
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Randomized controlled trial of interventions designed to reduce the risk of progression to first-episode psychosis in a clinical sample with subthreshold symptoms
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Archives of General Psychiatry
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 921-928
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  • The PACE Clinic: identification and management of young people at 'ultra' high risk of psychosis
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Psychiatric Practice
    Volume: 8
    Page numbers: 255-269
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Recognition and treatment of the pre-psychotic phase of psychotic disorders: frontier or fantasy?
    Year: 2001
    Book: Early Intervention in psychiatric disorders
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Ethics and early intervention in psychosis: keeping up the pace and staying in step
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 51
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 17-29
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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