Research
Current Opportunities

Dementia
Dr Flavell is involved in both observation and interventional research in dementia. For more information please contact the clinic and/or refer the The Queensland Brain Institute’s research page.
Dr Flavell’s areas of research includes the following conditions:
- Young onset dementia
- Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Lewy body dementia & Parkinson’s disease dementia
- Rare neurodegenerative dementias (e.g., Progressive supranuclear palsy)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder & Complex PTSD
Dr Flavell is involved in research understanding PTSD and C-PTSD impacts on the brain and well-being. For more information please contact the clinic and/or refer the The University of Queensland’s research page.
Published Research

- A preliminary investigation of a Geriatric Depression Scale, Dementia version (GDS-D). Journal of Affective Disorders (2025)
Joshua Flavell, Kailas Roberts, Philip L.P. Morris - Neuropsychiatry of Frontotemporal Dementia: Multidisciplinary Insights into Diagnosis and Future Direction. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (2025)
Joshua Flavell, Gail Robinson, Thomas Shaw - Factors associated with true‐positive and false‐positive diagnoses of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia in 100 consecutive referrals from specialist physicians. European Journal of Neurology (2025)
Joshua Flavell, Emily G. M. Ahern, Benignus Logan - A systematic review of cognitive and behavioral tools to differentiate behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia from other conditions. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports (2024)
Joshua Flavell, Peter John Nestor - Social cognition in dementia. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (2023)
Joshua Flavell - A Systematic Review of Fragile X–Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (2023)
Joshua Flavell, Catherine Franklin, Peter J. Nestor - Fragile X-associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (2022)
Joshua Flavell - A Systematic Review of Apathy and Depression in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.. Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology (2021)
Joshua Flavell, Nestor P - Modafinil-induced psychosis in a patient with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.. Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (2020)
Flavell J - Evaluation of the proposed anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor encephalitis clinical diagnostic criteria in psychiatric patients.. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2020)
Warren N, O'Gorman C, Blum S - Screening for anti-NMDAR encephalitis in psychiatry.. Journal of psychiatric research (2020)
Warren N, Flavell J, O'Gorman C
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