Chair of Biological Psychiatry
Willingness to take PhD students: Yes
Master of Science, Edinburgh Napier University Applied Statistics | |
Doctor of Medicine, University of Edinburgh Commonalities and differences between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder | |
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), University of Edinburgh Anatomy of the functional psychoses | |
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Aberdeen | |
Bachelor of Science, University of Aberdeen Close coupling of mRNA synthesis to amino acid metabolism |
1999 | Member of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, MRCPsych |
2012 | Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, FRCPsych |
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.
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