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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Neuroinflammation in HIV-associated depression: Evidence and future perspectives
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review 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) -
DNA methylome-wide association study of genetic risk for depression implicates antigen processing and immune responses
In:
Genome Medicine, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-022-01039-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales
(42 pages)
In:
Journal of Animal Ecology
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Virtual ontogeny of cortical growth preceding mental illness
In:
Biological Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.959
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
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) -
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) -
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)