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Dr Andrew Stanfield

Andrew Stanfield is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow.

Andrew Stanfield
  • Dr Andrew Stanfield
  • Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist
  • Division of Psychiatry
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He is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Co-director of the Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X and Intellectual Disabilities

Background

Following completion of his basic specialist training in psychiatry, Dr Stanfield took up a position as a clinical lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Within this post he obtained a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship to examine the relationship between the autism and schizophrenia spectrums.

Following this, he was appointed as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Division of Psychiatry and Co-director of the Patrick Wild Centre.

He undertakes clinical work as an honorary consultant psychiatrist for NHS Lothian Learning Disability Services, including sessions for the Regional Autism Spectrum Disorders Consultancy Service.

He is also a founding board member of Tailor Ed Foundation, a lottery funded charity which provides behavioural interventions to children with autism.

Research interests

Dr Stanfield’s research interests primarily relate to the autism spectrum, intellectual disabilities and related neurodevelopmental disorders. While our understanding of these conditions has increased dramatically in recent years, in many cases this has yet to be translated into meaningful clinical benefits for individuals affected by them. His research is aimed at bridging this gap.

Markers of esteem

Selected publications

Increased right prefrontal cortical folding in adolescents at risk for schizophrenia due to cognitive reasons
Biological Psychiatry 2008; 63(1):80-5
Stanfield AC, Moorhead TWJ, Harris JM, Owens DGC, Lawrie SM, Johnstone EC
Towards a neuroanatomy of autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging studies
European Psychiatry 2008; 23(4):289-99
Stanfield AC, McIntosh AM, Spencer MD, Philip RCM, Gaur S, Lawrie SM
EC Progressive temporal lobe grey matter loss in adolescents with schizotypal traits and mild intellectual impairment
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2009, 174(2): 105-109
Moorhead TWJ, Stanfield AC, Spencer M, Hall J, McIntosh AM, Owens DGC, Lawrie SM, Johnstone
Amygdala volume in a population with special educational needs at high risk of schizophrenia
Psychological Medicine; 2010; 40(6): 945-954
Welch KA, Stanfield AC, Moorhead TWJ, Haga K, Owens DC, Lawrie SM, Johnstone EC
Deficits in facial, body movement and vocal emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders
Psychological Medicine; 2010; 40 (11): 1919 -1929
Philip RCM, Whalley HC, Stanfield AC, Sprengelmeyer R, Santos IM, Young AW, Atkinson AP, Dittrich WH, Calder AJ, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM, Hall J

This article was published on Oct 5, 2011


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