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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Predictors of psychotic symptoms among young people with special educational needs: a 6 year follow-up study
In:
The British Journal of Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.296
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
DISC1 regulates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor dynamics : abnormalities induced by a Disc1 mutation modelling a translocation linked to major mental illness
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-018-0228-1
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Resting-state gamma-band power alterations in schizophrenia reveal E/I-balance abnormalities across illness-stages
In:
eLIFE, vol. 7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37799
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Resting-state connectivity and its association with cognitive performance, educational attainment, and household income in UK Biobank (N = 3,950)
In:
Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.06.007
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Association of whole-genome and NETRIN1 signaling pathway-derived polygenic risk scores for Major Depressive Disorder and white matter microstructure in UK Biobank
In:
Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.07.006
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)