Author: Stephen Lawrie

Professor Stephen Lawrie is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Since 2014, he has also been a Beltane Fellow for Public Engagement in Science. Until recently,  Stephen was Head of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, Director of the Scottish Mental Health Research Network and Director of the Medical Research Foundation- and Medical Research Council-funded UK Clinical Research Training Fellowship programme for Mental Health (Psy STAR). As a practising clinician and clinically oriented researcher, Stephen is interested in clinical applications of brain imaging in psychosis, with a view towards objective diagnostic aids in psychosis and psychiatry, and in developing novel treatments that might enhance outcomes in patients with established psychoses and possibly even prevent the onset of psychosis in high risk populations.