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I am particularly interested in using the combination of imaging and genetic methodology to identify the biological basis of psychosis and mood disorders in human subjects
Research Themes:
Brain imaging in psychosis and mood disorders Genetics of psychosis and mood disorders Biology of psychosis and of its associated brain abnormalities
Key Publications:
McIntosh AM, Owens DGC, Moorhead TWJ, Whalley HC, Stanfield AC, Hall J, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM (2010) Longitudinal Volume Reductions in People at High Genetic Risk of Schizophrenia as They Develop Psychosis. Biol Psychiatry DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.11.003.
Stanfield AC, Moorhead TW, Job DE, McKirdy J, Sussmann JE, Hall J, Giles S, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM, McIntosh AM. Structural abnormalities of ventrolateral and orbitofrontal cortex in patients with familial bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2009;11(2):135-44
Sprooten E, Lymer GK, Muñoz Maniega S, McKirdy J, Clayden JD, Bastin ME, Porteous D, Johnstone EC, Lawrie SM, Hall J, McIntosh AM. The relationship of anterior thalamic radiation integrity to psychosis risk associated neuregulin-1 variants. Mol Psychiatry. 2009;14(3):237-8, 233. PM
Collaborators:
Hilary Blumberg, Yale International
David Porteous, Edinburgh Scotland
David Glahn, Yale International
Danilo Arnone, Manchester United Kingdom
Klaus Ebmeier, Oxford United Kingdom
Keith Matthews, Dundee Scotland