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Associate Professor Alexis Estelle Whitton is a prominent researcher at The Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, specializing in mood disorders, neuroimaging in psychiatry, and digital mental health interventions. Her work bridges clinical practice with cutting-edge technology to develop more effective treatments for depression and bipolar disorder.
Dr. Whitton's research focuses on understanding reward processing mechanisms in mood disorders, utilizing neuroimaging techniques like fMRI and EEG to identify biomarkers for treatment response. She has pioneered work in digital phenotyping, developing smartphone applications and web-based tools to monitor mental health symptoms in real-world settings. Her expertise spans clinical depression, bipolar disorder, antidepressants, nicotine effects on reward learning, and computational approaches to understanding motivational impairments.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong emphasis on precision medicine approaches to mental healthcare, with significant work on AI-driven adaptive trial platforms like CONDUCTOR and digital interventions for subthreshold depression. She has contributed extensively to understanding how digital biomarkers, particularly typing behavior patterns, can serve as indicators of psychomotor symptoms in depression. Her research program shows a clear trajectory toward personalized mental healthcare through integration of digital phenotyping, clinical data, and genetic information.
As a supervisor, Dr. Whitton mentors students in mental health research with a focus on diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders and affective neuroscience. Her work has resulted in substantial scholarly output with 91 journal articles, 6 book chapters, and 18 preprints as indicated in her profile.
