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Professor Jeremy Hall

Jeremy Hall is Professor of Psychiatry and Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow.

Jeremy Hall
  • Professor Jeremy Hall
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow.
  • Division of Psychiatry
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Kennedy Tower
  • Royal Edinburgh Hospital
  • Edinburgh
  • EH10 5HF
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He is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult and Liaison Psychiatry, and works at both the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and the New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Background

Professor Hall studied Biology as an undergraduate at Oxford University before completing pre-clinical medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He then joined the MB/PhD programme at Cambridge University, graduating MB/BChir with a PhD in Experimental Psychology in 2000.

Following his house jobs, he completed clinical training in Psychiatry in South East Scotland. After a six month Stanley Foundation Research Fellowship he joined the Division of Psychiatry as a Clinical Lecturer in 2005.

He then gained an MRC Postgraduate Research Fellowship in 2007 and was awarded a Scottish Senior Clinical Fellowship in 2010.

Research Interests

Professor Hall’s overarching interest is in the interaction of genetic and environmental risk factors in the development of neurodevelopmental disorders including schizophrenia, mood and personality disorders.

In his research work, he employs a translational approach to study how genetic and environmental factors enhance risk for mental illness. He is particularly interested in how the brain adapts and responds to the environment through mechanisms such as changes in gene expression, and how these effects are programmed by early life experience.

He believes that understanding the dynamic response of the genome to environmental stimuli is crucial to the development of new treatments for psychiatric illness.

Selected Publications

Midbrain activation during Pavlovian conditioning and delusional symptoms in schizophrenia
Archives of General Psychiatry 67, 1246-1254 (2010)
Romaniuk L, Honey G, King JL, Whalley H, McIntosh AM, Levita L, Hughes M, Johnstone EC, Day M, Lawrie SM, Hall J
Associative learning and the genetics of schizophrenia
Trends in Neurosciences, 32, 359-365 (2009)
Hall J, Romaniuk L, McIntosh AM, Steele JD, Johnstone EC and Lawrie SM
Overactivation of fear systems to neutral faces in schizophrenia
Biological Psychiatry, 64, 70-73 (2008)
Hall J, Whalley H, McKirdy JW, McGonigle D, McIntosh AM, Baig B, Gountouna V-E, Job DE, Donaldson DI, Sprengelmeyer R, Young AW, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
The effects of a neuregulin 1 variant on white matter density and integrity
Molecular Psychiatry 13, 1054-1059 (2008)
McIntosh AM, Moorhead TW, Job D, Lymer K, Muñoz-Maniega S, McKirdy J, Sussmann JE, Baig BJ, Bastin ME, Porteous D, Evans K, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM and Hall J
A Neuregulin-1 variant associated with abnormal cortical function and psychotic symptoms
Nature Neuroscience 9, 1477-1478 (2006)
Hall J, Whalley HC, Job DE, Baig BJ, McIntosh AM, Evans KL, Thomson PA, Porteous DJ, Cunningham-Owens DG, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
Rapid and selective induction of BDNF expression in the hippocampus during contextual learning
Nature Neuroscience 3, 533-5 (2000)
Hall J, Thomas KL, Everitt BJ

This article was published on Oct 5, 2011


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