Dr Lucy Stirland (MBChB PhD MRCPsych)
Honorary Clinical Fellow in Old Age Psychiatry

- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre
Contact details
Background
Dr Stirland is a psychiatrist and epidemiological researcher. In August 2022, she completed her specialty training in Old Age Psychiatry and finished her Clinical Lectureship funded by NHS Education for Scotland and the Chief Scientist Office. In 2020, she completed a PhD in the epidemiology of multimorbidity and polypharmacy with mental and brain health. Her clinical experience includes a year's training (endorsement) in liaison psychiatry.
She is now an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) and is based at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for this one-year programme.
Research summary
Dr Stirland's research uses data to understand links between having multiple physical conditions or taking multiple medicines (multimorbidity and polypharmacy) with mental illnesses and dementia.
Past project grants
NES/CSO Postdoctoral Clinical Lectureship (2020-2022)
Project title: "Temporal dynamics of multimorbidity and medication use with mental illness and dementia: an investigation in NHS Scotland routinely collected data and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936"
MRF/MRC PsySTAR (Psychiatry: Scottish Training in Academic Research) Clinical Research Fellowship (2015-2019)
Thesis title: "Epidemiology of multimorbidity and polypharmacy in ageing: a complementary analysis of mental and brain health in three datasets" (PhD awarded June 2020)
Supervisors: Dr Graciela Muniz Terrera, Dr Tom Russ, Prof Craig Ritchie
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Prevalence and predictors of Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome in a community‐dwelling older Scottish population: A longitudinal observational study
(10 pages)
In:
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5824
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Prevalence and predictors of Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome in a community-dwelling older Scottish population: a longitudinal observational study
(23 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.21.22277916
Research output: › Preprint (Published) -
Comparisons of disease cluster patterns, prevalence and health factors in the USA, Canada, England and Ireland
In:
BMC Public Health, vol. 21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11706-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cognitive Dispersion Predicts Grip Strength Trajectories in Men but not Women in a Sample of the Oldest Old Without Dementia
In:
Innovation in Aging, vol. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab025
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Understanding the risk of incidental findings: A qualitative study of people with cognitive symptoms
In:
Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 419, pp. 117203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117203
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Epidemiology of multimorbidity and polypharmacy in ageing: a complementary analysis of mental and brain health in three datasets
Research output: › Doctoral Thesis (Published) -
Associations between midlife chronic conditions and medication use with anxiety and depression: A cross-sectional analysis of the PREVENT Dementia study
In:
Journal of comorbidity, vol. 10, pp. 2235042X2092044
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2235042X20920443
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Measuring multimorbidity beyond counting diseases: systematic review of community and population studies and guide to index choice
In:
British Medical Journal (BMJ), pp. m160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m160
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)