Professor Stephen Lawrie
Chair of Psychiatry and Neuro-Imaging & Head of the Division of Psychiatry
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 537 6671
- Email: s.lawrie@ed.ac.uk
Background
Professor Lawrie graduated in Medicine from Aberdeen University and completed basic Psychiatry training at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Following six months as a Wellcome Research Fellow, he was Lecturer and then Sackler Clinical Research Fellow/Reader in the Department of Psychiatry in Edinburgh. As an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with NHS Lothian, he works as a general psychiatrist in Edinburgh and in the South-East Scotland regional adult ASD clinical service.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Beltane Public Engagement Fellow (2014)
Director of the Scottish Mental Health Research Network (SMHRN) from 2009
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
Fellow of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Editorial Board of five other Journals including The Lancet Psychiatry
Field editor (Neuro-Imaging) for the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
Research summary
Professor Lawrie’s overarching goal is to develop research tools to provide objective diagnoses and improve the management of major psychiatric disorder.
He is particularly interested in clinical applications of brain imaging in psychosis and in the development of novel treatments that might enhance outcomes in established schizophrenia and possibly even prevent psychosis in high risk populations.
His own research has primarily involved using structural and functional brain imaging to distinguish patients with schizophrenia from their relatives, and from other patients with major psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and autism.
He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, had more than 14,000 citations, and his h-index = 60.
Research activities
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Familial t(1;11) translocation is associated with disruption of white matter structural integrity and oligodendrocyte–myelin dysfunction
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0505-2
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Widespread white matter microstructural abnormalities in bipolar disorder: evidence from mega- and meta-analyses across 3033 individuals
In:
Neuropsychopharmacology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0485-6
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Towards Precision Medicine in Psychosis: Benefits and Challenges of Multimodal Multicenter Studies : PSYSCAN: Translating Neuroimaging Findings From Research into Clinical Practice
In:
Schizophrenia Bulletin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz067
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Minocycline for negative symptoms of schizophrenia and possible mechanistic actions: the BeneMin RCT
In:
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/eme06070
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Acquisition of visual priors and induced hallucinations in chronic schizophrenia
(35 pages)
In:
Brain, vol. 142, no. 8, pp. 2523-2537
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz171
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)