Ian Jones

This research aimed to assess the length of intervals before diagnosis and treatment for colorectal cancer in Australia using linked datasets, and to determine any factors associated with interval length. A colorectal cancer clinical regist…

Background and Aims: Reproductive cycle events are associated with mood episodes in at least some women with bipolar disorder. We aimed to establish whether illness episodes in relation to menstruation, childbirth and menopause are associat…

Background and Aims: Reproductive life events are potential triggers of mood episodes in women with bipolar disorder. We aimed to establish whether a history of premenstrual mood change and postpartum episodes are associated with perimenopa…

Most psychiatric disorders are moderately to highly heritable. The degree to which genetic variation is unique to individual disorders or shared across disorders is unclear. To examine shared genetic etiology, we use genome-wide genotype da…

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether variation at two common polymorphisms, T102C and -1438AG, of the serotonin 2A gene (5HT2A) are involved in the puerperal triggering mechanism of bipolar affective puerperal psychosis. METHOD: A total of 242 pa…