Dr Heather Whalley
Senior Research Fellow
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
Contact details
- Email: heather.whalley@ed.ac.uk
Background
Dr Whalley graduated in neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently completed an MSc by Research (with distinction) along with her PhD in the field of neuroimaging at the Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences.
She previously held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship and a Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh JMAS SIM fellowship and is currently an ESAT Fellow at the University.
Research summary
Dr Whalley's main area of research interest is to link neuroimaging techniques with underlying biology in a bottom-up approach in order to better understand debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly in adolescence. Her research therefore focuses on how causal risk factors contribute to disease in terms of their impact on brain structure and function.
Related links
Psychiatric disorders research at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
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Early life predictors of late life cerebral small vessel disease in four prospective cohort studies
In:
Brain, vol. 144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab331
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Methylome-wide association study of antidepressant use in Generation Scotland and the Netherlands Twin Register implicates the innate immune system
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01412-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A functional MRI facial emotion-processing study of autism in individuals with special educational needs.
In:
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, vol. 320
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111426
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Epigenome-wide association study of alcohol consumption in N = 8161 individuals and relevance to alcohol use disorder pathophysiology: identification of the cystine/glutamate transporter SLC7A11 as a top target
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01378-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Epigenome-wide association study of global cortical volumes in generation Scotland: Scottish family health study
(17 pages)
In:
Epigenetics, pp. 1-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2021.1997404
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Brain structural associations with depression in a large early adolescent sample (the ABCD study®)
In:
EClinicalMedicine, vol. 42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101204
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
DNA Methylation and Protein Markers of Chronic Inflammation and Their Associations With Brain and Cognitive Aging
In:
Neurology, pp. 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012997
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000012997
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
White matter, cognition and psychotic-like experiences in UK Biobank
(10 pages)
In:
Psychological Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004244
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Epigenome-wide association study of global cortical volumes in Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study
In:
Epigenetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2021.1997404
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Hair glucocorticoids are associated with childhood adversity, depressive symptoms and reduced global and lobar grey matter in Generation Scotland
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01644-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)