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.
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The neuropathology of autism: A systematic review of post-mortem studies of autism and related disorders
In:
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 129, pp. 35-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.07.014
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Every Intervention Emerges from an Encounter: Translation and Contextualization as Treatments for Recurrent Depression
In:
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12780
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Animal-assisted interventions, including animal-assisted therapy, animal-assisted activities, and resident animals, for improving quality of life in people with stroke
In:
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Associations Between Major Psychiatric Disorder Polygenic Risk Scores and Blood-Based Markers in UK Biobank
In:
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.06.002
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Glutamate and functional connectivity - support for the excitatory-inhibitory imbalance hypothesis in autism spectrum disorders
In:
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, vol. 313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111302
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)