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Associate Professor Louise Mewton
Associate Professor
Matilda Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Matilda Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health
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Member of the Brain and Mind Centre
Dr Louise Mewton is an Associate Professor and public health researcher with a focus on the epidemiology, assessment, prevention, and treatment of alcohol use and related disorders across the lifespan. She is Program Lead in Lifespan and Brain Health Research at the Matilda Centre, University of Sydney.
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Louise's additional research interests include: population neuroscience; the intersection between mental health and substance use disorders (comorbidity), diagnostic models of psychopathology, improving the classification and diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorders, and biostatistical methods.
- 2024 Fulbright Scholar
- University of New South Wales Scientia Career Development Fellowship, 2019-2022
- Society for Mental Health Early Career Researcher Award, 2018
- Australian Institute of Policy and Science, Young Tall Poppy Science Award, 2017
- Australasian Professional Society for Alcohol and Drugs Early Career Researcher Award, 2016
- Australian Rotary Health Bruce Edwards Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2017
- Highly Commended, TheMHS Early Career Research Award, 2015
- Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Rising Star Award, 2012
- National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre Jen McLaren Research Award. 2012
- College on Problems of Drug Dependence Early Investigator Travel Award, 2012
- University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Research Support Scheme Award, 2010
- University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine Dean’s List, 2009
- Australian Postgraduate Award, 2008-2011
- University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine Rising Star Award, 2008-2011
Neurosciences and Mental Health, Healthy Ageing, Lifespan
Project title | Research student |
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Using hierarchical dimensional models of psychopathology to investigate the relationships between mental illness neurobiology genetics and dementia in older adulthood | Nicholas HOY |
Publications
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Book Chapters
- Teesson, M., Mewton, L., Baillie, A. (2021). Substance use disorders. In G Meadows, J Farhall, E Fossey, B Happell, F McDermott, S Rosenberg (Eds.), Mental Health and Collaborative Community Practice: An Australian Perspective, (pp. 740-760). Docklands: Oxford University Press.
Journals
- Chatterton, M., Perez, J., Lee, Y., Le, L., Birrell, L., Slade, T., Mewton, L., Hides, L., McBride, N., Allsop, S., Bryant, Z., Chapman, C., Newton, N., Teesson, M., et al (2024). Cost‑Utility Analysis of a School‑Based Universal Program for the Prevention of Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Use: The Climate Schools Combined Trial. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. [More Information]
- Teesson, M., Birrell, L., Slade, T., Mewton, L., Olsen, N., Hides, L., McBride, N., Chatterton, M., Allsop, S., Furneaux-Bate, A., Bryant, Z., Healy, A., Debenham, J., Boyle, J., Mather, M., Chapman, C., Newton, N., et al (2024). Effectiveness of a universal, school-based, online programme for the prevention of anxiety, depression, and substance misuse among adolescents in Australia: 72-month outcomes from a cluster-ran. The Lancet Digital Health, 6(5), e334-e344. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Sachdev, P., Visontay, R., Hughes, G., Browning, C., Wen, W., Topiwala, A., Draper, B., Crawford, J., Brodaty, H. (2024). Longitudinal alcohol-related brain changes in older adults: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study. Addiction Biology, 29(5), e13402. [More Information]
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Other
- Devine, E., Green, R., Riches, J., Elliott, E., Newton, N., Squeglia, L., Mewton, L., Stapinski, L. (2023), Associations between prenatal alcohol exposure and sleep outcomes in 11–12-year-old children: An Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.
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2024
- Chatterton, M., Perez, J., Lee, Y., Le, L., Birrell, L., Slade, T., Mewton, L., Hides, L., McBride, N., Allsop, S., Bryant, Z., Chapman, C., Newton, N., Teesson, M., et al (2024). Cost‑Utility Analysis of a School‑Based Universal Program for the Prevention of Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Use: The Climate Schools Combined Trial. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. [More Information]
- Teesson, M., Birrell, L., Slade, T., Mewton, L., Olsen, N., Hides, L., McBride, N., Chatterton, M., Allsop, S., Furneaux-Bate, A., Bryant, Z., Healy, A., Debenham, J., Boyle, J., Mather, M., Chapman, C., Newton, N., et al (2024). Effectiveness of a universal, school-based, online programme for the prevention of anxiety, depression, and substance misuse among adolescents in Australia: 72-month outcomes from a cluster-ran. The Lancet Digital Health, 6(5), e334-e344. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Sachdev, P., Visontay, R., Hughes, G., Browning, C., Wen, W., Topiwala, A., Draper, B., Crawford, J., Brodaty, H. (2024). Longitudinal alcohol-related brain changes in older adults: The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study. Addiction Biology, 29(5), e13402. [More Information]
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2023
- Visontay, R., Mewton, L., Sunderland, M., Bell, S., Britton, A., Osman, B., North, H., Mathew, N., Slade, T. (2023). A comprehensive evaluation of the longitudinal association between alcohol consumption and a measure of inflammation: Multiverse and vibration of effects analyses. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 247. [More Information]
- Green, R., Meredith, L., Mewton, L., Squeglia, L. (2023). Adolescent Neurodevelopment Within the Context of Impulsivity and Substance Use. Current Addiction Reports, 10(2), 166-177. [More Information]
- Minihan, S., Songco, A., Fox, E., Ladouceur, C., Mewton, L., Moulds, M., Pfeifer, J., Van Harmelen, A., Schweizer, S. (2023). Affect and Mental Health Across the Lifespan During a Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies and Mental Flexibility. Emotion. [More Information]
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2022
- Newton, N., Chapman, C., Slade, T., Birrell, L., Healy, A., Mather, M., McBride, N., Hides, L., Allsop, S., Mewton, L., Teesson, M., et al (2022). A national effectiveness trial of an eHealth program to prevent alcohol and cannabis misuse: Responding to the replication crisis. Psychological Medicine, 52(2), 274-282. [More Information]
- Visontay, R., Sunderland, M., Slade, T., Wilson, J., Mewton, L. (2022). Are there non-linear relationships between alcohol consumption and long-term health?: a systematic review of observational studies employing approaches to improve causal inference. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22(1), 16. [More Information]
- O'Dean, S., Mewton, L., Chung, T., Clay, P., Clare, P., Bruno, R., Yuen, W., McBride, N., Swift, W., Isik, A., Tibbetts, J., Johnson, P., Slade, T., et al (2022). Definition matters: assessment of tolerance to the effects of alcohol in a prospective cohort study of emerging adults. Addiction, 117(11), 2955-2964. [More Information]
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2021
- Forbes, M., Sunderland, M., Rapee, R., Batterham, P., Calear, A., Carragher, N., Ruggero, C., Zimmerman, M., Baillie, A., Lynch, S., Slade, T., et al (2021). A Detailed Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology: From Individual Symptoms up to the General Factor of Psychopathology. Clinical Psychological Science, 9(2), 139-168. [More Information]
- Visontay, R., Rao, R., Mewton, L. (2021). Alcohol use and dementia: new research directions. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 34(2), 165-170. [More Information]
- Lees, B., Squeglia, L., McTeague, L., Forbes, M., Krueger, R., Sunderland, M., Baillie, A., Koch, F., Teesson, M., Mewton, L. (2021). Altered Neurocognitive Functional Connectivity and Activation Patterns Underlie Psychopathology in Preadolescence. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6(4), 387-398. [More Information]
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2020
- Mewton, L., Hodge, A., Gates, N., Visontay, R., Lees, B., Teesson, M. (2020). A randomised double-blind trial of cognitive training for the prevention of psychopathology in at-risk youth. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 132, 103672. [More Information]
- Lees, B., Mewton, L., Stapinski, L., Teesson, M., Squeglia, L. (2020). Association of prenatal alcohol exposure with preadolescent alcohol sipping in the ABCD study®. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 214, 108187. [More Information]
- Lees, B., Mewton, L., Jacobus, J., Valadez, E., Stapinski, L., Teesson, M., Tapert, S., Squeglia, L. (2020). Association of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure with Psychological, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 177(11), 1060-1072. [More Information]
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2019
- Pocuca, N., Hides, L., Quinn, C., White, M., Mewton, L., Loxton, N. (2019). An exploratory study of the relationship between neuroticism and problematic drinking in emerging adulthood and the moderating effect of social anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 132-144. [More Information]
- Liu, Q., Hu, L., Smith, J., Mewton, L. (2019). Can Inhibitory Training Produce Reductions in Drinking? Evaluating the Influence of the Control Condition. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 80(1), 96-1010. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Reppermund, S., Crawford, J., Bunce, D., Wen, W., Sachdev, P. (2019). Cross-sectional and prospective relationships between depressive symptoms, vascular disease and cognition. Psychological Medicine, 49(13), 2168-2176. [More Information]
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2018
- Lees, B., Mewton, L., Stapinski, L., Squeglia, L., Rae, C., Teesson, M. (2018). Binge drinking in young people: Protocol for a systematic review of neuropsychological, neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies. BMJ Open, 8(7), e023629. [More Information]
- Birrell, L., Newton, N., Slade, T., Chapman, C., Mewton, L., McBride, N., Hides, L., Chatterton, M., Allsop, S., Healy, A., et al (2018). Evaluating the Long-Term Effectiveness of School-Based Depression, Anxiety, and Substance Use Prevention Into Young Adulthood: Protocol for the Climate School Combined Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 7(11), e11372. [More Information]
- Pocuca, N., Hides, L., Quinn, C., White, M., Mewton, L., Newton, N., Slade, T., Chapman, C., Andrews, G., Teesson, M., et al (2018). The interactive effects of personality profiles and perceived peer drinking on early adolescent drinking. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 32(2), 230-236. [More Information]
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2017
- Slade, T., Swift, W., Mewton, L., Kypri, K., Lynskey, M., Butterworth, P., Tibbetts, J., McCraw, S., Upton, E. (2017). RADAR study: protocol for an observational cohort study to identify early warning signals on the pathways to alcohol use disorder. BMJ Open, 7(8), 1-5. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Hodge, M., Gates, N., Visontay, R., Teesson, M. (2017). The Brain Games study: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of computerised cognitive training for preventing mental illness in adolescents with high-risk personality styles. BMJ Open, 7(9), 1-8. [More Information]
- Wade, D., Mewton, L., Varker, T., Phelps, A., Forbes, D. (2017). The impact of potentially traumatic events on the mental health of males who have served in the military: Findings from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51(7), 693-702. [More Information]
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2016
- Mewton, L., Andrews, G. (2016). Cognitive behavioral therapy for suicidal behaviors: Improving patient outcomes. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 9, 21-29. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Kessler, R., Slade, T., Hobbs, M., Brownhill, L., Birrell, L., Tonks, Z., Teesson, M., Newton, N., Chapman, C., et al (2016). The psychometric properties of the kessler psychological distress scale (K6) in a general population sample of adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 28(10), 1232-1242. [More Information]
2015
- Mewton, L., Andrews, G. (2015). Cognitive behaviour therapy via the internet for depression: A useful strategy to reduce suicidal ideation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 170, 78-84. [More Information]
- McGuire, A., Dobson, A., Mewton, L., Varker, T., Forbes, D., Wade, D. (2015). Mental health service use: Comparing people who served in the military or received Veterans' Affairs benefits and the general population. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39(6), 524-529. [More Information]
2014
- Mewton, L., Smith, J., Rossouw, P., Andrews, G. (2014). Current perspectives on internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for adults with anxiety and related disorders. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 7, 37-46. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Sachdev, P., Anderson, T., Sunderland, M., Andrews, G. (2014). Demographic, clinical, and lifestyle correlates of subjective memory complaints in the Australian population. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(11), 1222-1232. [More Information]
- Newby, J., Mewton, L., Williams, A., Andrews, G. (2014). Effectiveness of transdiagnostic internet cognitive behavioural treatment for mixed anxiety and depression in primary care. Journal of Affective Disorders, 165, 45-52. [More Information]
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2013
- Mewton, L., Sachdev, P., Andrews, G. (2013). A Naturalistic Study of the Acceptability and Effectiveness of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders in Older Australians. PloS One, 8(8). [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Slade, T., Memedovic, S., Teesson, M. (2013). Alcohol Use in Hazardous Situations: Implications for DSM-IV and DSM-5 Alcohol Use Disorders. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 37(SUPPL.1), E228-E236. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Slade, T., Teesson, M. (2013). An evaluation of the proposed DSM-5 cannabis use disorder criteria using Australian national survey data. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74(4), 614-621. [More Information]
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2012
- Watts, S., Newby, J., Mewton, L., Andrews, G. (2012). A clinical audit of changes in suicide ideas with internet treatment for depression. BMJ Open, 2(5), e001558. [More Information]
- Teesson, M., Slade, T., Swift, W., Mills, K., Memedovic, S., Mewton, L., Grove, R., Newton, N., Hall, W. (2012). Prevalence, correlates and comorbidity of DSM-IV cannabis use and cannabis use disorders in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 46(12), 1182-1192. [More Information]
- Mewton, L., Wong, N., Andrews, G. (2012). The effectiveness of internet cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder in clinical practice. Depression and Anxiety, 29(10), 843-849. [More Information]
2011
- Mewton, L., Slade, T., McBride, O., Grove, R., Teesson, M. (2011). An evaluation of the proposed DSM-5 alcohol use disorder criteria using Australian national data. Addiction, 106(5), 941-950. [More Information]
2010
- Teesson, M., Hall, W., Slade, T., Mills, K., Grove, R., Mewton, L., Baillie, A., Haber, P. (2010). Prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence in Australia: findings of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Addiction, 105(12), 2085-2094. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2024
- Matilda Centre Compact with UC San Diego - adolescence, mental health and substance use, Brown S, Teesson M, Mewton L, Office of Global Engagement/Compact Agreement Global Research Partnerships
2023
- Rewarding Research 2024, Mewton L, Faculty of Medicine and Health/FMH Rewarding Research Success
- Continuing Investment in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)Prevention, Diagnosis and SupportActivity ID: 4-J2AKIFN, Mewton L, Devine E, Stapinski L, Riches J, Teesson M, Ross K, Duong F, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)/Drug and Alcohol Program
- Mapping the Neurobiological Risks and Consequences of Alcohol Use in Adolescence and Across the Lifespan, Mewton L, Lees B, Sunderland M, National Institutes of Health (USA)/Research Grant
- Understanding the impact of alcohol use on brain health across the lifespan, Mewton L, Faculty of Medicine and Health/New Academic Staff Funding
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