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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Grey and white matter associations of psychotic-like experiences in a general population sample (UK Biobank)
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01131-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Visual statistical learning and integration of perceptual priors are intact in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 15, pp. e0243100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243100
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Structural brain correlates of serum and epigenetic markers of inflammation in major depressive disorder
In:
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.11.024
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Deconstructing depression and negative symptoms of schizophrenia; differential and longitudinal immune correlates, and response to minocycline treatment
In:
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, vol. 91, pp. 498-504
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.10.026
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Intelligence, educational attainment, and brain structure in those at familial high‐risk for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
In:
Human Brain Mapping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25206
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)