Dr Paris Alexandros Lalousis

Dr Paris Alexandros Lalousis is a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health at King's College London. He graduated with a first-class BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Wales in 2014 before working as a research assistant at the Department of Mental Health & Neurosurgery of the Evangelismos Hospital in Athens.

 

He then undertook a MSc in Brain Imaging & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham, graduating with distinction in 2017. Following that, he worked as an Assistant Psychologist for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

 

He then undertook a joint funded Priestley University of Birmingham - University of Melbourne PhD at the Institute for Mental Health and the Centre for Human Brain Health.

 

He then worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham leading his site within the NIH-funded PRESCIENT consortium and coordinating with international collaborators from 10 countries and 12 sites to successfully develop novel machine learning solutions for psychosis.

 

In his research he uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to improve understanding of disease processes in early-stage mental illness, by disentangling their phenotypic and neurobiological heterogeneity in a transdiagnostic manner.

 

Research Interests: 

• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in Translational Research
• Youth Mental Health
• Neuroimaging
• Inflammation
• Biomarkers

 

Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-9642-3080

 

Expertise and Public Engagement:

• Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Bloomwise: https://www.bloomwiseltd.com/
• Organised and presented an event at the ThinkTank Museum for Brain Awareness Week engaging with children and teenagers about his research.
• Won Virtual Consultancy Challenge in partnership with Centre for Mental Health to improve mental health of people who work for small businesses.
• Published several blogs e.g (https://thepsychphdpathway.com/2020/10/13/machine-learning-in-mental-health-research/)
• Made youtube video showcasing mental health at the Institute for Mental health and I do for World Mental Health day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGArR-iMU_s )

key publications: 

Lalousis, P. A., … Mallikarjun, P. (2022). Trait Related Aberrant Connectivity in Clinically Stable Patients with Schizophrenia: A Seed Based Resting-State fMRI Study. Brain Imaging and Behavior

Lalousis, P. A., … Upthegrove, R. (2022). Neurobiologically Based Stratification of Recent Onset Depression and Psychosis: Identification of Two Distinct Transdiagnostic Phenotypes. Biological Psychiatry.

Lalousis, P. A., ... Upthegrove, R. (2022). Transdiagnostic Structural Neuroimaging features in Depression and Psychosis: A Systematic Review. NeuroImage: Clinical.

Williams, J. A., Burgess, S., Suckling, J., Lalousis, P. A., .... PIMS Collaboration. (2022). Inflammation and Brain Structure in Schizophrenia and Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Mendelian Randomization Study. JAMA Psychiatry.

Lalousis, P. A., … PRONIA Consortium. (2021). Heterogeneity and Classification of Recent Onset Psychosis and Depression: A Multimodal Machine Learning Approach. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Upthegrove, R., Lalousis, P., … PRONIA Consortium. (2020). The Psychopathology and Neuroanatomical Markers of Depression in Early Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Mallikarjun, P. K., Lalousis, P. A., ... Upthegrove, R. (2018). Aberrant salience network functional connectivity in auditory verbal hallucinations: A first episode psychosis sample. Translational Psychiatry.