Dr Sinead Rhodes
Senior Research Fellow, Child Life and Health & Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Child Life and Health, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 312 1656
- Email: sinead.rhodes@ed.ac.uk
Qualifications
2008: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Dundee, Neuropsychopharmacology of ADHD
1996: Master of Letters, University College Dublin
1993: Bachelor of Arts, University College Dublin
Research summary
Sinéad is a developmental psychologist who is interested in the cognitive factors underlying behaviour and learning. Her research has principally focused on cognition, especially memory and associated executive functions, in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, ASD and Williams syndrome.
She also examines cognitive factors underlying mental health especially depression and anxiety, and is particularly interested in cognition and depression within the context of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Sinéad is extensively involved in public engagement activities: she is the founder of the Research the Headlines project and was awarded the 2017 Royal Society of Edinburgh Innovators Public Engagement Prize.
Sinead is an Emeritus member of the Young Academy of Scotland.
Research aims & areas of interest
- Executive functions in ADHD and Williams syndrome
- Cognitive predictors of mathematics and literacy in ADHD
- Effects of stimulant medication on cognition and behaviour in ADHD
- Tailored interventions to improve learning in ADHD
- Autobiographical memory, executive control and depression
- Cognitive factors underlying depression in ASD
- Social cognition in neurodevelopmental disorders
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Lived experiences of depression in autistic children and adolescents: A qualitative study on child and parent perspectives
In:
Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104516
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Cognition and maths in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder with and without co-occurring movement difficulties
In:
Research in Developmental Disabilities, vol. 136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104471
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Friendships in Children with Williams Syndrome: Parent and Child Perspectives
In:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05807-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Neurobehavioral follow-up of children exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in utero
In:
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, vol. 34, pp. 197-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12788/acp.0074
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Stimulant and non-stimulant drug therapy for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and epilepsy
In:
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013136.pub2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)