Research Project
Oliver Watkeys is a PhD student in the School of Psychiatry at NeuRA and the University of New South Wales.
He completed an Honours Degree in Psychology at the University of Newcastle in 2016.
Oliver is currently investigating the epigenetic modification of genes and how this can impact upon the manifestation of severe psychopathologies such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Publications
2025
Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort
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2024
Alteration of DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Scores Associated With Features of Schizophrenia and Common Variant Genetic Risk
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2024
Childhood Schizotypy and Adolescent Mental Disorder
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2024
Childhood trauma moderates schizotypy-related brain morphology: Analyses of 1182 healthy individuals from the ENIGMA schizotypy working group
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2024
Cohort Profile Update: The New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS) - Wave 3 (child age ∼18 years)
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2024
Cortical similarities in psychiatric and mood disorders identified in federated VBM analysis via COINSTAC
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2024
Cumulative comorbidity between neurodevelopmental, internalising, and externalising disorders in childhood: a network approach
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2024
Cumulative incidence of adolescent mental disorders following childhood maltreatment: An Australian longitudinal population cohort study
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2024
Medicare-subsidised mental health service use during the first 15 years of life in New South Wales: a population cohort study
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2024
Patterns of health service use for children with mental disorders in an Australian state population cohort
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