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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A functional MRI facial emotion-processing study of autism in individuals with special educational needs.
In:
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, vol. 320
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2021.111426
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cross-sectional study comparing cognitive function in treatment responsive versus treatment non-responsive schizophrenia: evidence from the STRATA study
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 11, pp. e054160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054160
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Brain structural associations with depression in a large early adolescent sample (the ABCD study®)
In:
EClinicalMedicine, vol. 42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101204
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
White matter, cognition and psychotic-like experiences in UK Biobank
(10 pages)
In:
Psychological Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004244
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Hair glucocorticoids are associated with childhood adversity, depressive symptoms and reduced global and lobar grey matter in Generation Scotland
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01644-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)