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-
Management of mild traumatic brain injury
In:
Practical neurology, pp. practneurol-2018-002087
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-002087
Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Pseudohallucinations as functional cognitive disorders – Authors' reply
In:
Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 7, pp. 230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30043-2
Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
I think, therefore I forget - using experimental simulation of dementia to understand functional cognitive disorders
(8 pages)
In:
CNS Spectrums, pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852919001329
Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Understanding foreign accent syndrome
In:
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, pp. jnnp-2018-319842
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2018-319842
Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Attention and sensation in functional motor disorder
In:
Neuropsychologia, vol. 106, pp. 207-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.09.031
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Chapter 28 – Functional coma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801772-2.00028-X
Chapter (Published) -
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a treatment for Functional (Psychogenic) Upper Limb Weakness.
In:
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 89, pp. 102-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2016.08.010
Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)