Dr Donald MacIntyre
Director, NRS Mental Health Network; Honorary Reader
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry
- NHS Lothian
Contact details
- Email: d.macintyre@ed.ac.uk
Background
Donald is an NHS consultant general psychiatrist, currently seconded to NHS 24 as Associate Medical Director, a post which he combines with clinical research. He graduated in Edinburgh in 1996, and started psychiatric training in 1999. He has combined research and clinical practice throughout his career. He was awarded MD in 2013, promoted to Honorary Reader in 2017, and appointed Director of the NRS Mental Health Network in 2022.
Research summary
Donald is interested in exploring the validity of psychiatric diagnoses using novel methods of phenotyping and using technological innovations, routine measurement and record linkage to improve mental health care and treatment.
Funding Sources
- Chief Scientist Office
- Digital Health Institute
- Scottish Mental Health Research Network
- Scottish Government
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Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors
(15 pages)
In:
Biological Psychiatry, vol. 91, pp. 313-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.029
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Language function following preterm birth: prediction using machine learning
In:
Pediatric Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-021-01779-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry: A Genome-Wide Association Study
In:
JAMA Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2099
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology
(19 pages)
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 53, pp. 817-829
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00857-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A loss of mature microglial markers without immune activation in schizophrenia
In:
Glia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.23962
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)