Andrew McIntosh is Professor of Biological Psychiatry and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He trained in Medicine at the University of Aberdeen before completing further postgraduate training in Edinburgh in Psychiatry and in Applied Statistics. He leads the Generation Scotland Expert Working Group for Psychiatric Disorders and is involved in several genetic consortia, including ENIGMA and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

Professor McIntosh’s aims to better understand the causes and consequences of depression and then use that knowledge to address the unmet needs of the individuals and families affected by the disorder. He currently works with large population-based studies of depression, such as Generation Scotland and UK Biobank, that have information on depression alongside genetic information, data from the electronic medical record and other detailed measurements of physical and mental health.

• Depression and psychological resilience
• The genetic and environmental causes of depression
• The mechanisms and causal consequences of depression 
• Public enagagement around the use of mental health data in research