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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Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders
In:
JAMA Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.2694
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Categorical and Dimensional Approaches to Examining the Joint Effect of Autism and Schizotypal Personality Disorder on Sustained Attention
In:
Frontiers in psychiatry, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00798
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Genetic copy number variants, cognition and psychosis: a meta-analysis and a family study
In:
Molecular Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-0820-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Understanding the Clinical Manifestations of 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Series of Developmental Case Reports in Children
In:
Psychiatric Genetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/YPG.0000000000000259
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Automated classification of depression from structural brain measures across two independent community‐based cohorts
In:
Human Brain Mapping
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25095
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)