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  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Stephen M. Lawrie is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry.

The key areas of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these broader domains, Lawrie's work particularly focuses on the following subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Biological Psychiatry

The main research topics covered in Lawrie's publications involve investigations into brain function and mental disorders, such as:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Recent significant papers authored by Stephen M. Lawrie include:

  • The neuropathology of autism: A systematic review of post-mortem studies of autism and related disorders (2021), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis (2021), JAMA Psychiatry
  • Dopamine and Glutamate in Antipsychotic-Responsive Compared With Antipsychotic-Nonresponsive Psychosis: A Multicenter Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study (STRATA) (2020), Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Structural brain correlates of serum and epigenetic markers of inflammation in major depressive disorder (2020), Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Blunted medial prefrontal cortico-limbic reward-related effective connectivity and depression (2020), Brain

Frequent publication venues for Lawrie include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research

Collaborations have been an important part of Lawrie's academic output. The most frequent co-authors are:

  • Heather C. Whalley
  • Andrew M. McIntosh
  • Xueyi Shen
  • Peter J. Uhlhaas
  • Matthias Schwannauer

In addition to journal articles, Lawrie has contributed to book publications. One notable book published with Cambridge University Press is Mind, State and Society (2021).

Stephen M. Lawrie received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Psychological autopsy studies of suicide: a systematic review.

    J. T. O. Cavanagh;Alan J. Carson;Michael Sharpe;Stephen M. Lawrie

  • Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium

    T. G M van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Brain abnormality in schizophrenia. A systematic and quantitative review of volumetric magnetic resonance imaging studies.

    Stephen M. Lawrie;Suheib S. Abukmeil

  • Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Treatment Response and Resistance in Psychosis (TRRIP) Working Group Consensus Guidelines on Diagnosis and Terminology.

    Oliver D. Howes;Rob McCutcheon;Ofer Agid;Andrea De Bartolomeis

  • Depression after stroke and lesion location: a systematic review

    Alan J Carson;Siobhan MacHale;Kathryn Allen;Stephen M Lawrie

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants

    Stuart J Ritchie;Simon R Cox;Xueyi Shen;Michael V Lombardo;Michael V Lombardo

  • The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

    Philipp Sterzer;Rick A. Adams;Paul Fletcher;Chris Frith

  • Functional Specialization within Rostral Prefrontal Cortex (Area 10): A Meta-analysis

    Sam J. Gilbert;Stephanie Spengler;Jon S. Simons;J. Douglas Steele

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19 (NIPS 2006)

    Enrico Simonotto;Heather Whalley;Stephen Lawrie;Lawrence Murray

  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • Reduced frontotemporal functional connectivity in schizophrenia associated with auditory hallucinations

    Stephen M Lawrie;Christian Buechel;Heather C Whalley;Christopher D Frith

  • Working memory in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis.

    N. F. Forbes;L. A. Carrick;A. M. McIntosh;S. M. Lawrie

  • Towards a neuroanatomy of autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging studies.

    Andrew C. Stanfield;Andrew M. McIntosh;Michael D. Spencer;Ruth Philip

  • Cannabis as a risk factor for psychosis: systematic review.

    David M. Semple;Andrew M. McIntosh;Stephen M. Lawrie

  • Erratum: Subcortical brain volume abnormalities in 2028 individuals with schizophrenia and 2540 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) DOI:10.1038/mp.2015.63)

    T. G.M. Van Erp;D. P. Hibar;J. M. Rasmussen;D. C. Glahn

  • Psychological autopsy studies of suicide: a systematic review. (vol 33, pg 395, 2003)

    A J Carson;M Sharpe;S M Lawrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew M. McIntosh
Andrew M. McIntosh University of Edinburgh
Eve C. Johnstone
Eve C. Johnstone University of Edinburgh
Heather C. Whalley
Heather C. Whalley University of Edinburgh
Jeremy Hall
Jeremy Hall Cardiff University
Mark E. Bastin
Mark E. Bastin University of Edinburgh
Emma Sprooten
Emma Sprooten Radboud University
Ingrid Agartz
Ingrid Agartz University of Oslo
David J. Porteous
David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Erik G. Jönsson
Erik G. Jönsson University of Oslo

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