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
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Associations Between Major Psychiatric Disorder Polygenic Risk Scores and Blood-Based Markers in UK Biobank
In:
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.06.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Glutamate and functional connectivity - support for the excitatory-inhibitory imbalance hypothesis in autism spectrum disorders
In:
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, vol. 313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111302
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Brain correlates of suicide attempt in 18,925 participants across 18 international cohorts
In:
Biological Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.03.015
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Comparison of Rule-based and Neural Network Models for Negation Detection in Radiology Reports
(22 pages)
In:
Natural Language Engineering, vol. 27, pp. 203-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324920000509
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years
In:
Human Brain Mapping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25364
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years
In:
Human Brain Mapping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25320
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Grey and white matter associations of psychotic-like experiences in a general population sample (UK Biobank)
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01131-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Three major dimensions of human brain cortical ageing in relation to cognitive decline across the eighth decade of life
(12 pages)
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00975-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Brain structural correlates of insomnia severity in 1053 individuals with major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA MDD Working Group
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01109-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)