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
Research activities
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White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0477-2
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Widespread white matter microstructural abnormalities in bipolar disorder: evidence from mega- and meta-analyses across 3033 individuals
In:
Neuropsychopharmacology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0485-6
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
No Alterations of Brain Structural Asymmetry in Major Depressive Disorder: An ENIGMA Consortium Analysis
In:
American Journal of Psychiatry, pp. appi.ajp.2019.1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18101144
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Stratifying major depressive disorder by polygenic risk for schizophrenia in relation to structural brain measures
In:
Psychological Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329171900165X
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Identification of novel differentially methylated sites with potential as clinical predictors of impaired respiratory function and COPD
In:
EBioMedicine, vol. 43, pp. 576-586
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.03.072
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The use of brain functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine the mechanism of action of gabapentin in managing chronic pelvic pain in women: a pilot study
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. e026152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026152
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
White matter microstructure and its relation to longitudinal measures of depressive symptoms in mid-late life
In:
Biological Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.06.011
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The role of neuroticism in self-harm and suicidal ideation : Results from two UK population-based cohorts
(14 pages)
In:
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01725-7
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Associations of Polygenic Risk for Major Psychiatric Disorder With Brain Structure in Depression and Application to Stratification
(2 pages)
In:
Biological Psychiatry, vol. 85, no. 10, pp. S19-S20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.03.061
Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
Reply to: New Meta- and Mega-analyses of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Schizophrenia: Do They Really Increase Our Knowledge About the Nature of the Disease Process?
In:
Biological Psychiatry, vol. 85, no. 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.10.003
Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Published)