Megan Cowman

ORCID: 0000-0001-5685-664X
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Research Areas
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
2021-2025

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> In the context of a sharp rise in help-seeking youth mental health, digital health interventions offer enormous potential to improve outcomes, facilitate access, and meet increasing demand on services. For young adults attending third level education, for example, may support students while either waiting attend student counselling, or sustain gains once brief course face-to-face counselling sessions have completed. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This trial...

10.2196/preprints.73269 preprint EN cc-by 2025-03-10

Background While cognitive impairment is a core feature of psychosis, significant heterogeneity in and clinical outcomes observed. Aims The aim this study was to identify subgroups first-episode psychosis (FEP) determine if these profiles were linked functional over time. Method A total 323 individuals with FEP included. Two-step hierarchical k -means cluster analyses performed using baseline variables. General linear mixed models used investigate whether clusters associated functioning at...

10.1192/bjp.2025.3 article EN cc-by The British Journal of Psychiatry 2025-03-26

Psychosis, even in its early stages, is associated with significant disability, causing it to be ranked ahead of paraplegia and blindness those aged 18-35 terms years lived disability. Current pharmacological psychological interventions intervention have focused primarily on the reduction positive symptoms (hallucinations delusions), little benefit domains psychosis such as cognitive difficulties social occupational functioning.The CReSt-R trial a single center, pilot randomised controlled...

10.1186/s40814-022-01064-6 article EN cc-by Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022-05-24

Abstract Cognitive impairment is a core feature of psychosis. Full cognitive assessments are not often conducted in routine clinical practice as administration time-consuming. Here, we investigated whether brief tests cognition could be used to predict broader neurocognitive performance manner practical for screening use mental health services. We carried out principal component analysis (PCA) obtain an estimate general function ( N = 415). memory accounted significant percentage variation...

10.1038/s41537-022-00322-z article EN cc-by Schizophrenia 2022-12-17
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