Associate Professor Rebecca Koncz

Associate Professor Rebecca Koncz

Professor

MBBS(Hons), FRANZCP, PhD

Medicine & Health
National Centre of Excellence

Rebecca is the UNSW Chair of Intellectual Disability Mental Health, within the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health. She is a neuropsychiatrist who is passionate about improving mental health outcomes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Rebecca has extensive clinical experience working with people with intellectual disability, their families and advocates, and is a clinical academic with the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service. In 2020, she co-led the establishment of the NSW Statewide Intellectual Disability Mental Health Outreach Service.

Rebecca has an established track record of conducting high quality, translational research in neuropsychiatric conditions, ageing and dementia. She also leads the design and delivery of intellectual disability mental health education content for a diverse range of professionals across the health and disability sectors.  

Rebecca is committed to partnering with people with lived experience, government and peak bodies in the health and disability sectors. Her work aims to develop and implement innovative research and capacity building initiatives to improve the mental health of people with cognitive disabilities.

 

  • Journal articles | 2024
    Koncz R; Say MJ; Gleason A; Hardy TA, 2024, 'The neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric manifestations of Susac syndrome: a brief review of the literature and future directions', Neurological Sciences, 45, pp. 5181 - 5187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-024-07672-9
    Journal articles | 2024
    Schiller D; Yu ANC; Alia-Klein N; Becker S; Cromwell HC; Dolcos F; Eslinger PJ; Frewen P; Kemp AH; Pace-Schott EF; Raber J; Silton RL; Stefanova E; Williams JHG; Abe N; Aghajani M; Albrecht F; Alexander R; Anders S; Aragón OR; Arias JA; Arzy S; Aue T; Baez S; Balconi M; Ballarini T; Bannister S; Banta MC; Barrett KC; Belzung C; Bensafi M; Booij L; Bookwala J; Boulanger-Bertolus J; Boutros SW; Bräscher AK; Bruno A; Busatto G; Bylsma LM; Caldwell-Harris C; Chan RCK; Cherbuin N; Chiarella J; Cipresso P; Critchley H; Croote DE; Demaree HA; Denson TF; Depue B; Derntl B; Dickson JM; Dolcos S; Drach-Zahavy A; Dubljević O; Eerola T; Ellingsen DM; Fairfield B; Ferdenzi C; Friedman BH; Fu CHY; Gatt JM; de Gelder B; Gendolla GHE; Gilam G; Goldblatt H; Gooding AEK; Gosseries O; Hamm AO; Hanson JL; Hendler T; Herbert C; Hofmann SG; Ibanez A; Joffily M; Jovanovic T; Kahrilas IJ; Kangas M; Katsumi Y; Kensinger E; Kirby LAJ; Koncz R; Koster EHW; Kozlowska K; Krach S; Kret ME; Krippl M; Kusi-Mensah K; Ladouceur CD; Laureys S; Lawrence A; Li CSR; Liddell BJ; Lidhar NK; Lowry CA; Magee K; Marin MF; Mariotti V; Martin LJ; Marusak HA; Mayer AV, 2024, 'The Human Affectome', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450
    Journal articles | 2023
    Bessell E; Kim JS; Chiem L; McDonald A; Thompson D; Glozier N; Simpson A; Parcsi L; Morris R; Koncz R, 2023, 'Effectiveness of Project ECHO Programs in Improving Clinician Knowledge and Confidence in Managing Complex Psychiatric Patients: a Waitlist-Controlled Study', Academic Psychiatry, 47, pp. 25 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01701-5
    Journal articles | 2022
    Koncz R; Thalamuthu A; Wen W; Catts VS; Dore V; Lee T; Mather KA; Slavin MJ; Wegner EA; Jiang J; Trollor JN; Ames D; Villemagne VL; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2022, 'The heritability of amyloid burden in older adults: the Older Australian Twins Study', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 93, pp. 303 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-326677
    Journal articles | 2022
    Koncz R; Wen W; Makkar SR; Lam BCP; Crawford JD; Rowe CC; Sachdev P, 2022, 'The Interaction Between Vascular Risk Factors, Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, and Amyloid Burden in Older Adults', Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 86, pp. 1617 - 1628, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-210358
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lennon MJ; Koncz R; Sachdev PS, 2021, 'Hypertension and Alzheimer's disease: is the picture any clearer?', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 34, pp. 142 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000684
    Journal articles | 2020
    Cromwell HC; Abe N; Barrett KC; Caldwell-Harris C; Gendolla GHE; Koncz R; Sachdev PS, 2020, 'Mapping the interconnected neural systems underlying motivation and emotion: A key step toward understanding the human affectome', Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.032
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jiang J; Liu T; Zhu W; Koncz R; Liu H; Lee T; Sachdev PS; Wen W, 2018, 'UBO Detector – A cluster-based, fully automated pipeline for extracting white matter hyperintensities', NeuroImage, 174, pp. 539 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.050
    Journal articles | 2018
    Koncz R; Sachdev PS, 2018, 'Are the brain's vascular and Alzheimer pathologies additive or interactive?', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 31, pp. 147 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/yco.0000000000000395
    Journal articles | 2017
    Koncz R; Mohan A; Dawes L; Thalamuthu A; Wright M; Ames D; Lee T; Wen W; Sachdev PS; Trollor J, 2017, 'Incidental findings on cerebral MRI in twins: the Older Australian Twins Study', Brain Imaging and Behavior: an international journal, 12, pp. 860 - 869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11682-017-9747-2
    Journal articles | 2017
    Takacs A; Koncz R; Mohan A; Sachdev PS, 2017, 'Forgetfulness, stress or mild dementia? Cognitive assessment of older patients', Medicine Today, 18, pp. 14 - 22, http://medicinetoday.com.au/2017/may/feature-article/forgetfulness-stress-or-mild-dementia-cognitive-assessment-older-patients
    Journal articles | 2016
    Koncz R; Wolfenden F; Hassed C; Chambers R; Cohen J; Glozier N, 2016, 'Mindfulness-based stress release program for university employees a pilot, waitlist-controlled trial and implementation replication', Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 58, pp. 1021 - 1027, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000000856
  • Conference Abstracts | 2022
    Koncz R; Pistilli C; Bessell E; Kim J-S; Thompson D; McDonald A, 2022, 'THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECT ECHO IN BUILDING CAPACITY IN CLINICIANS WORKING WITH ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND COMORBID MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 56, pp. 141 - 141, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000792769900333&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Preprints | 2022
    Sachdev P; Mohan A; Cheah SL; Takacs A; Lo J; Koncz R; Crawford J, 2022, Development and clinimetric testing of the Unified Drug-Induced Movement Disorders Scale (UDIMS), http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.21.22272729
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Koncz R; Thalamuthu A; Wen W; Catts VS; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2019, 'O5‐07‐06: THE HERITABILITY OF AMYLOID DEPOSITION AND ITS SHARED GENETIC BASIS WITH SMALL VESSEL DISEASE IN THE BRAINS OF OLDER PEOPLE', http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.4875
    Conference Abstracts | 2018
    Koncz R; Wen W; Crawford JD; Rowe CC; Sachdev PS, 2018, 'Amyloid burden is independent of cerebrovascular burden, but hypertension promotes amyloid accumulation over time [Abstract P1-465]', in Alzheimer's & Dementia, Elsevier BV, Chicago, USA, Vol. 14, pp. P499 - P499, presented at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018, Chicago, USA, 22 July 2018 - 26 July 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.475
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    Koncz RE; Brennan A; Harris A, 2013, 'The effect of symptomatic improvement on gamma synchrony in psychosis: a pilot study.', presented at 12th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 13 May 2013 - 14 May 2013