Professor Stephen Lawrie
Chair of Psychiatry and Neuro-Imaging
- 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
- Out of sight, Out of Mind
- NIHR Oxford BRC for Mental Health Review
- Imaging of people at high of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
- Early developmental and multivariate analyses of brain structure predict schizophrenia in the Edinburgh High Risk Study
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
- Univ Costa Rica, Universidad Costa Rica, Escuela Biol to
- Discussion and debate about mental health issues affecting students
- Stand Up for Psychiatry
- Psychiatry is the Best Medicine!
- Society of Biological Psychiatry
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Structural neuroimaging measures and lifetime depression across levels of phenotyping in UK biobank
In:
Translational Psychiatry, vol. 12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01926-w
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Virtual ontogeny of cortical growth preceding mental illness
In:
Biological Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.959
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Experience of clinical services shapes attitudes to mental health data sharing: findings from a UK-wide survey
In:
BMC Public Health, vol. 22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12694-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cognitive function in early-phase schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: IQ subtypes, brain volume and immune markers
In:
Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004815
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
What is the evidence for antipsychotic medication and alternative psychosocial interventions for people with acute, non-affective psychosis?
In:
The Lancet Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00293-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)