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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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) -
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) -
Sexual dimorphism in the relationship between brain complexity, volume and general intelligence (g): a cross-cohort study
In:
Scientific Reports, vol. 12, pp. 11025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15208-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Accelerated Global and Local Brain Aging Differentiate Cognitively Impaired From Cognitively Spared Patients With Schizophrenia
In:
Frontiers in psychiatry, vol. 13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.913470
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The nosological status of unipolar mania and hypomania within UK Biobank according to objective and subjective measures of diurnal rest and activity
In:
Bipolar Disorders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bdi.13237
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Neuroinflammation in HIV-associated depression: Evidence and future perspectives
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Complex trait methylation scores in the prediction of major depressive disorder
In:
EBioMedicine, vol. 79, pp. 104000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104000
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Structural neuroimaging measures and lifetime depression across levels of phenotyping in UK biobank
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01926-w
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Brain charts for the human lifespan
In:
Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04554-y
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)