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Philip W.J. Burnet is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. They have contributed substantially with 35 publications related to medicine, 26 in neuroscience, and 24 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work covers several subfields, including molecular biology, physiology, biological psychiatry, behavioral neuroscience, and social psychology. Specific topics of focus in their research include gut microbiota and health, tryptophan and brain disorders, diet and metabolism studies, stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Recent papers by Philip W.J. Burnet include:

  • Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The Gut Microbiome and Schizophrenia: The Current State of the Field and Clinical Applications, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The role of the microbiome in the neurobiology of social behaviour, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Gut dysbiosis in severe mental illness and chronic fatigue: a novel trans-diagnostic construct? A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Nutrition and the ageing brain: Moving towards clinical applications, 2020, Ageing Research Reviews

Their research is frequently published in journals such as Frontiers in Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Brain Behavior and Immunity.

Philip W.J. Burnet collaborates regularly with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Belinda Lennox
  • Amedeo Minichino
  • Daniel C. Anthony
  • Daniel Radford-Smith
  • Fay Probert

Best Publications

  • Psychobiotics and the Manipulation of Bacteria-Gut-Brain Signals.

    Amar Sarkar;Soili M. Lehto;Siobhán Harty;Timothy G. Dinan

  • Prebiotic intake reduces the waking cortisol response and alters emotional bias in healthy volunteers

    Kristin Schmidt;Philip J. Cowen;Catherine J. Harmer;George Tzortzis

  • The relative importance of premortem acidosis and postmortem interval for human brain gene expression studies: selective mRNA vulnerability and comparison with their encoded proteins

    P.J. Harrison;P.R. Heath;S.L. Eastwood;P.W.J. Burnet

  • Prebiotic feeding elevates central brain derived neurotrophic factor, N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor subunits and d-serine

    Helene M. Savignac;Giulia Corona;Henrietta Mills;Li Chen

  • The distribution of 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptor mRNA in human brain

    P.W.J. Burnet;S.L. Eastwood;K. Lacey;P.J. Harrison

  • 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptor mRNAs and binding site densities are differentially altered in schizophrenia

    Philip W.J. Burnet;Sharon L. Eastwood;Paul J. Harrison

  • Altered synaptophysin expression as a marker of synaptic pathology in schizophrenia

    S.L. Eastwood;P.W.J. Burnet;P.J. Harrison

  • Decreased expression of mRNAs encoding non-NMDA glutamate receptors GluR1 and GluR2 in medial temporal lobe neurons in schizophrenia.

    Sharon L. Eastwood;Brendan McDonald;Philip W.J. Burnet;Jason P. Beckwith

  • Prebiotic administration normalizes lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced anxiety and cortical 5-HT2A receptor and IL1-β levels in male mice

    H M Savignac;Y Couch;M Stratford;D M Bannerman

  • The group II metabotropic glutamate receptor 3 (mGluR3, mGlu3, GRM3): expression, function and involvement in schizophrenia.

    P J Harrison;L Lyon;L J Sartorius;P W J Burnet

  • [3H]WAY-100635 for 5-HT1A receptor autoradiography in human brain: a comparison with [3H]8-OH-DPAT and demonstration of increased binding in the frontal cortex in schizophrenia.

    P.W.J Burnet;S.L Eastwood;P.J Harrison

  • d-Amino acid oxidase and serine racemase in human brain: normal distribution and altered expression in schizophrenia.

    Louise Verrall;Mary Walker;Nancy Rawlings;Isabel Benzel

  • The Microbiome in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.

    Amar Sarkar;Amar Sarkar;Siobhán Harty;Siobhán Harty;Soili M. Lehto;Soili M. Lehto;Andrew H. Moeller

  • The neurobiology of D -amino acid oxidase and its involvement in schizophrenia

    L Verrall;P W J Burnet;J F Betts;P J Harrison

  • RNA editing of the 5-HT(2C) receptor is reduced in schizophrenia

    M S Sodhi;P W J Burnet;Andrew Makoff;Robert Kerwin

  • Genetic variation of the 5-HT2A receptor and response to clozapine

    M.M. Nöthen;M. Rietschel;J. Erdmann;H. Oberländer

  • Expression of ZNF804A in Human Brain and Alterations in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder: A Novel Transcript Fetally Regulated by the Psychosis Risk Variant rs1344706

    Ran Tao;Helena Cousijn;Andrew E. Jaffe;Philip W. J. Burnet

  • GluR2 glutamate receptor subunit flip and flop isoforms are decreased in the hippocampal formation in schizophrenia : A reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) study

    Sharon L Eastwood;Philip W.J Burnet;Philip W.J Burnet;Paul J Harrison;Paul J Harrison

  • Characterization of glucagon-like peptide-1-(7–36)amide in the hypothalamus

    Bernhard Kreymann;Mohammed A. Ghatei;Philip Burnet;Gareth Williams

  • Gut dysbiosis in severe mental illness and chronic fatigue: a novel trans-diagnostic construct? A systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • The effect of chronic imipramine administration on the densities of 5-HT1A and 5-HT2 receptors and the abundances of 5-HT receptor and transporter mRNA in the cortex, hippocampus and dorsal raphe of three strains of rat.

    Philip W.J. Burnet;David Michelson;Mark A. Smith;Philip W. Gold

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Anthony
Daniel C. Anthony University of Oxford
Catherine J. Harmer
Catherine J. Harmer University of Oxford
Trevor Sharp
Trevor Sharp University of Oxford
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Ole Paulsen
Ole Paulsen University of Cambridge
Nicholas J. Brandon
Nicholas J. Brandon Neumora Therapeutics Inc
Thomas Hartung
Thomas Hartung Johns Hopkins University
Christopher G. Fairburn
Christopher G. Fairburn University of Oxford
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn

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