By Associate Professor Alexis Estelle Whitton

Conference Presentations

Whitton A, 2020, 'Effectiveness of a stepped mental health service for improving the identification and treatment of depression and anxiety in primary care', presented at Australian Society for Medical Research NSW Annual Scientific Meeting, Virtual, 13 November 2020 - 13 November 2020

Conference Abstracts

Tran D; McNair N; Whitton A; Whitford T; Livesey E, 2023, 'The predictive brain: Linking motor and sensory attenuation using combined TMS-EEG', in Brain Stimulation, Elsevier BV, Vol. 16, pp. 260 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2023.01.428

Reinen J; Whitton A; Pizzagalli D; Silfstein M; Abi-Dargham A; McGrath P; Iosifescu DV; Schneier F, 2018, 'Major Depressive Disorder is Associated With Blunted Learning Signals in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Putamen When Seeking Monetary Reward', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, Vol. 83, pp. S101 - S102, presented at 73rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 10 May 2018 - 12 May 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.271

Whitton A; Reinen J; Slifstein M; McGrath P; Iosifescu D; Abi-Dargham A; Pizzagalli D; Schneier F, 2018, 'Utilizing a Behavioral Assay of Reward Learning to Predict Clinical Response to a Dopamine Agonist in Individuals With Depression', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, Vol. 83, pp. S102 - S102, presented at 73rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 10 May 2018 - 12 May 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.272

Pizzagalli D; Whitton A; Van't Veer A; Donahue R; Carlezon W, 2017, 'Aberrant Error Processing in Depressive Phenotypes: Cross-species Confluence and Initial Electrophysiological Markers', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, Vol. 81, pp. S315 - S315, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.842

Whitton A; Pizzagalli D, 2017, 'Spectral EEG Dynamics of Large-Scale Functional Network Disturbances in Depression', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Diego, Vol. 81, pp. S58 - S58, presented at 72nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), CA, San Diego, 18 May 2017 - 20 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.02.151

Eren CY; Sancak S; Yazici D; Uysal SP; Whitton A; Rutherford A; Pizzagalli D; Eser HY, 2017, 'Effect of GLP-1 Agonists Use on Cognitive and Affective Functioning in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Preliminary Study', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, Vol. 83, pp. S385 - S385, presented at 73rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 10 May 2017 - 12 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.989

Rutherford A; Whitton AE; Ironside ML; Jensen JE; Du F; Farabaugh A; Deckersbach T; Ongur D; Pizzagalli DA, 2017, 'Rostral Anterior Cingulate Glutamate Levels are Linked to Abnormal High-Frequency Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Bipolar Disorder', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NY, New York, Vol. 83, pp. S271 - S271, presented at 73rd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry (SOBP), NY, New York, 10 May 2017 - 12 May 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.700

, 2017, 'Abstracts of the WASAD Conference 2017, 14-16 September, Würzburg, Germany.', in J Neural Transm (Vienna), Austria, Vol. 124, pp. 1277 - 1328, Austria, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1777-9

, 2017, 'ACNP 56th Annual Meeting: Poster Session III, December 6, 2017', in Neuropsychopharmacology, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 42, pp. S476 - S652, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2017.266

, 2016, 'Poster Session Abstracts', in Psychophysiology, Wiley, Vol. 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12719

Hall MH; Whitton A; Mallya S; Douglas S; Spencer K; Cohen B; Levy D; Smoller J; Oenguer D; Pizzagalli D, 2015, 'Associations among reward-based learning, mood and anxiety symptoms, and their relation to brain neurophysiology in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder', in BIPOLAR DISORDERS, WILEY-BLACKWELL, Vol. 17, pp. 101 - 101, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000355338100280&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Whitton AE; Henry JD; Rendell PG; Grisham JR, 2012, 'Pathological disgust and the basal ganglia: An examination of disgust responding in obsessive-compulsive disorder', in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, ITALY, Pisa, Vol. 85, pp. 365 - 365, presented at 16th World Congress of Psychophysiology of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP), ITALY, Pisa, 13 September 2012 - 17 September 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.010

Whitton ; Henry JD; Grisham JR; Rendell PG, 2012, 'Hoarding, excessive responsibility and pathological guilt: Symptoms of empathy in overdrive?', in International Journal of Psychophysiology, Elsevier Science BV, Vol. 85, pp. 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.009

Whitton ; Henry JD; Rendell PG; Grisham JR, 2012, 'Pathological disgust and the basal ganglia: An examination of disgust responding in obsessive-compulsive disorder.', in International Journal of Psychophysiology, Elsevier Science BV, Vol. 85, pp. 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.009

Whitton ; Henry JD; Rendell PG; Grisham JR, 2012, 'Turning one’s nose up at the wrong and the rancid: Disentangling the effects of anger and disgust on physiological responses to moral transgressions.', in International Journal of Psychophysiology, Elsevier Science BV, Vol. 85, pp. 364 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.07.009

Media

Whitton A, 2020, Mental Health Matters, Exercise and Sports Science Australia

Preprints

Tran DMD; McNair NA; Whitton AE; Whitford TJ; Livesey EJ, 2025, Sensory prediction errors predict motor prediction errors, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.16.643175

Beames JR; Dabash O; Spoelma MJ; Shvetcov A; Zheng WY; Slade A; Han J; Hoon L; Kupper JF; Parker R; Mitchell B; Martin NG; Newby JM; Whitton AE; Christensen H, 2025, The feasibility of collecting and linking multimodal data for digital mental health research: A pilot observational study involving digital phenotyping and genetics data (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.71377

Kikas K; O'Moore K; Miller RK; Matheson J-AT; Li S; Varghese K; Baldwin P; Cockayne N; Whitton AE; Newby JM, 2024, Needs and Expectations for the myNewWay Blended Digital and Face-to-Face Psychotherapy Model of Care for Depression and Anxiety (Part 1): Participatory Design Study including People with Lived and Living Experience (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.69499

Miller RK; O'Moore K; Kikas K; Matheson J-AT; Whitton AE; Baldwin P; Li S; Black M; Kampel L; Cockayne N; Tuttlebee F; Fraser C; Carr V; Varghese K; Newby JM, 2024, Needs and expectations for the myNewWayTM blended digital and face-to-face psychotherapy model of care for depression and anxiety (Part 2): Mental health professional co-design study (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.68789

O’Dea B; Subotic-Kerry M; Borchard T; Parker B; Vilus B; Iorfino F; Whitton AE; Harris-Roxas B; Wade TD; Valle MKD; Glozier N; Nicholas J; Torok M; Braund TA; Batterham PJ, 2024, The impact of service wait times on General Practitioners’ treatment of adolescent depression and anxiety, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.12.24312088

Holmes G; Tang B; Gupta S; Venkatesh S; Christensen H; Whitton A, 2024, Applications of Large Language Models in the Field of Suicide Prevention: Scoping Review (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.63126

Zheng WY; Shvetcov A; Slade A; Jenkins Z; Hoon L; Whitton A; Logothetis R; Ravindra S; Kurniawan S; Gupta S; Huckvale K; Stech E; Agarwal A; Funke Kupper J; Cameron S; Rosenberg J; Manoglou N; Senadeera M; Venkatesh S; Mouzakis K; Vasa R; Christensen H; Newby JM, 2024, Recruiting Young People for Digital Mental Health Research: Lessons From an AI-Driven Adaptive Trial (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.60413

Pizzagalli D; Whitton A; Treadway M; Rutherford A; Kumar P; Ironside M; Kaiser R; Ren B; Dan R, 2023, Brain-based graph-theoretical predictive modeling to map the trajectory of transdiagnostic symptoms of anhedonia, impulsivity, and hypomania from the human functional connectome., http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3168186/v1

Shvetcov A; Kupper JF; Zheng W-Y; Slade A; Han J; Whitton A; Spoelma M; Hoon L; Mouzakis K; Vasa R; Gupta S; Venkatesh S; Newby J; Christensen H, 2023, Passive sensing data predicts stress in university students: A supervised machine learning method for digital phenotyping, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.29.23293375

Subotic-Kerry M; Borchard T; Parker B; Li S; Choi J; Long E; Batterham P; Whitton A; Gokiert A; Spencer L; O’Dea B, 2023, While they wait: A cross-sectional survey on wait times for mental health treatment for anxiety and depression for Australian adolescents, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.21.23294348

Shvetcov A; Whitton A; Kasturi S; Zheng W-Y; Beames J; Ibrahim O; Han J; Hoon L; Mouzakis K; Gupta S; Venkatesh S; Christensen H; Newby J, 2022, Machine learning identifies a COVID-19-specific phenotype in university students using a mental health app, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.07.22283234

Pizzagalli D; Whitton A; Kumar P; Treadway M; Rutherford A; Ironside M; Foti D; Fitzmaurice G; Du F, 2022, Distinct profiles of anhedonia and reward processing and their prospective associations with quality of life among individuals with mood disorders, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2247153/v1

Huckvale K; Hoon L; Stech E; Newby J; Zheng W-Y; Han J; Vasa R; Gupta S; Barnett S; Senadeera M; Cameron S; Kurniawan S; Agarwal A; Kupper JF; Asbury J; Willie D; Grant A; Cutler H; Parkinson B; Ahumada-Canale A; Beames J; Logothetis R; Bautista M; Rosenberg J; Shvetcov A; Quinn T; Mackinnon A; Rana S; Tran T; Rosenbaum S; Mouzakis K; Werner-Seidler A; Whitton A; Venkatesh S; Christensen H, 2022, Protocol for a bandit-based response adaptive trial to evaluate the effectiveness of brief self-guided digital interventions for reducing psychological distress in university students: The Vibe Up Study, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.05.22283129

Parker BL; Anderson M; Batterham PJ; Gayed A; Subotic-Kerry M; Achilles MR; Chakouch C; Werner-Seidler A; Whitton AE; O’Dea B, 2021, Examining the Preliminary Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Web-Based Training Program for Australian Secondary School Teachers: Pilot Study of the BEAM (Building Educators’ Skills in Adolescent Mental Health) Program (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.29989

Whitton AE; Hardy R; Cope K; Gieng C; Gow L; MacKinnon A; Gale N; O'Moore K; Anderson J; Proudfoot J; Cockayne N; O'Dea B; Christensen H; Newby JM, 2021, Mental Health Screening in General Practices as a Means for Enhancing Uptake of Digital Mental Health Interventions: Observational Cohort Study (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.28369

Parker BL; Chakouch C; Subotic-Kerry M; Batterham PJ; Mackinnon A; Newby JM; Whitton AE; McGoldrick J; Cockayne N; O'Dea B, 2020, The Building Educators’ Skills in Adolescent Mental Health Training Program for Secondary School Educators: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.25870

Pechtel P; Belleau EL; Kaiser R; Whitton AE; Beltzer M; Clegg R; Goer F; Vitaliano G; Teicher MH; Pizzagalli DA, Stress and Reward: A Multimodal Assessment of Resilience after Childhood Sexual Abuse, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4090307

Beames J; Han J; Shvetcov A; Zheng W; Slade A; Ibrahim O; Rosenberg J; O’Dea B; Kasturi S; Hoon L; Whitton A; Christensen H; Newby JM, Use of Smartphone Sensor Data in Detecting and Predicting Depression and Anxiety in Young People (12-25 Years): A Scoping Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4798261

Other

Pizzagalli DA; Smoski M; Ang YS; Whitton AE; Sanacora G; Mathew SJ; Nurnberger J; Lisanby SH; Iosifescu DV; Murrough JW; Yang H; Weiner RD; Calabrese JR; Goodman W; Potter WZ; Krystal AD, 2021, Correction to: Selective kappa-opioid antagonism ameliorates anhedonic behavior: evidence from the Fast-fail Trial in Mood and Anxiety Spectrum Disorders (FAST-MAS) (Neuropsychopharmacology, (2020), 45, 10, (1656-1663), 10.1038/s41386-020-0738-4), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01145-9

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