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Professor Stephen Lawrie
Stephen Lawrie is Head of the Division of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry & Neuro-Imaging and Director of PsySTAR.
- Professor Stephen Lawrie
- Head of the Division of Psychiatry, Director of PsySTAR
- Division of Psychiatry
- Work: 0131 537 6671
- Email:
- s.lawrie@ed.ac.uk
As an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with NHS Lothian, he works as a general psychiatrist in central Edinburgh and in the South-East Scotland regional adult ASD clinical service.
Background
Professor Lawrie graduated in Medicine from Aberdeen University in 1986 and completed basic Psychiatry training at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Following six months as a Wellcome Research Fellow, he was Lecturer and then Sackler Clinical Research Fellow/Reader in the Department of Psychiatry in Edinburgh.
Research interests
Professor Lawrie’s overarching goal is to develop research tools to provide objective diagnoses and improve the management of major psychiatric disorder.
He is particularly interested in clinical applications of brain imaging in psychosis and in the development of novel treatments that might enhance outcomes in established schizophrenia and possibly even prevent psychosis in high risk populations.
His own research has primarily involved using structural and functional brain imaging to distinguish patients with schizophrenia from their relatives, and from other patients with major psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and autism.
Markers of esteem
Clinical research impact includes:
- Director of PsySTAR
- Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) member from 2010
- Director of the Scottish Mental Health Research Network (SMHRN) from 2009
- Co-chair of the Lothian Joint Formulary from 2009
- Co-editor of Companion to Psychiatric Studies 2011 (‘Highly commended’ by the BMA)
- Field editor (Neuro-Imaging) for the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
Selected publications
- Prefrontal function and activation in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
- Am J Psychiatry. 2008 Mar;165(3):378-84
- McIntosh AM, Whalley HC, McKirdy J, Hall J, Sussmann JE, Shankar P, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
- Overactivation of fear systems to neutral faces in schizophrenia
- Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 1;64(1):70-3
- Hall J, Whalley HC, McKirdy JW, Romaniuk L, McGonigle D, McIntosh AM, Baig BJ, Gountouna VE, Job DE, Donaldson DI, Sprengelmeyer R, Young AW, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
- White matter tractography in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
- Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Dec 15;64(12):1088-92
- McIntosh AM, Muñoz Maniega S, Lymer GK, McKirdy J, Hall J, Sussmann JE, Bastin ME, Clayden JD, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
- Associative learning and the genetics of schizophrenia
- Trends Neurosci. 2009 Jun;32(6):359-65
- Hall J, Romaniuk L, McIntosh AM, Steele JD, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
- Hippocampal function in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
- Psychol Med. 2010 May;40(5):761-70
- Hall J, Whalley HC, Marwick K, McKirdy J, Sussmann J, Romaniuk L, Johnstone EC, Wan HI, McIntosh AM, Lawrie SM
- A common neural system mediating two different forms of social judgement
- Psychol Med. 2010 Jul;40(7):1183-92
- Hall J, Whalley HC, McKirdy JW, Sprengelmeyer R, Santos IM, Donaldson DI, McGonigle DJ, Young AW, McIntosh AM, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM
This article was published on Oct 5, 2011