Dr Laura McWhirter
Baillie Gifford Clinical Research Fellow
- Centre for Dementia Prevention
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Contact details
- Email: laura.mcwhirter@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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University of Edinburgh,
Royal Edinburgh Hospital,
Morningside Terrace - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH10 5HF
Background
Laura McWhirter graduated MBChB from the University of Edinburgh in 2008, having taken an unusual route to medicine after a degree in music from the University of York in 2001. Dr McWhirter completed specialist training in General Adult and Liaison Psychiatry in South East Scotland in June 2018. Her research is primarily in the areas of Functional Neurological Disorders, cognitive disorders, and brain injury.
Qualifications
MBChB - University of Edinburgh, 2008
BA (Hons) in Music - University of York, 2001
Responsibilities & affiliations
Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists - 2012
Member of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) - 2011
Member of the British Neuropsychiatry Association
Research summary
Laura McWhirter's research interests are in cognitive disorders, functional neurological disorders, and brain injury.
Current research interests
Dr McWhirter's current primary research project aims to improve understanding of Functional Cognitive Disorder phenotypes in the differential diagnosis of dementia prodromes.Past research interests
Somatosensory attention in functional neurological disorders, Foreign Accent Syndrome, transcranial magnetic stimulation, the history of physical treatments for functional neurological disorder-
Reply: Functional cognitive disorder: dementia’s blind spot
In:
Brain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab305
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (E-pub ahead of print) -
Suspecting dementia: canaries, chameleons and zebras
In:
Practical Neurology, pp. practneurol-2021-003019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2021-003019
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Management of functional communication, swallowing, cough and related disorders: consensus recommendations for speech and language therapy
In:
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, pp. jnnp-2021-326767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2021-326767
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Improving Diagnosis in Cognitive Disorders
In:
protocols.io
DOI: https://doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.z97f99n
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Functional coma.
In:
Handbook of Clinical Neurology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-801772-2.00028-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A case report of inpatient detoxification after kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) dependence
(3 pages)
In:
European addiction research, vol. 16, pp. 229-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000320288
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)