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 inflammatory markers and subsequent psychotic and depressive episodes between 10 to 28 years of age
In:
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100528
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Regional gene expression signatures are associated with sex-specific functional connectivity changes in depression
In:
Nature Communications, vol. 13, pp. 5692
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32617-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Publisher Correction: Brain charts for the human lifespan
In:
Nature, vol. 610, pp. E6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05300-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Associations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample
In:
Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002720
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Associations of negative affective biases and depressive symptoms in a community-based sample
(10 pages)
In:
Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002720
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Neuroimaging reveals a potential brain-based pre-existing mechanism that confers a vulnerability towards development of chronic painful chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)
In:
British Journal of Anaesthesia
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Comparing personalised brain-based and genetic risk scores for Major Depressive Disorder in large population samples of adults and adolescents
In:
European Psychiatry, pp. 1-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2301
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Systematic evaluation of machine learning algorithms for neuroanatomically‐based age prediction in youth
In:
Human Brain Mapping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26010
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Correction: Structural neuroimaging measures and lifetime depression across levels of phenotyping in UK biobank
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 12, pp. 282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02062-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Sex differences in predictors and regional patterns of brain age gap estimates
In:
Human Brain Mapping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25983
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)