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Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
Staff interests associated with the research programme and its research groups
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Psychiatry, classification and measurement. Genetic and environmental risk factors for unipolar depression and bipolar disorder.
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020 7848 0888
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Developmental psychopathology; personality assessment; health psychology.
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020 7848 0937
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Conduct disorder; psychosocial risks for childhood disorders; childhood-adulthood continuities.
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020 7848 0470
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My research focus is the development and application of statistical methods in human genetics, to identify and characterise genes contributing to common, complex disorders. Current research includes genome-wide association studies and disease risk prediction using genetic and environmental factors.
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Animal behaviour; molecular genetic techniques (mutation detection, genotyping and gene expression profiling).
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020 7848 0745
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Addiction; alcohol; animal models; behaviour genetics; cocaine; neurochemistry; psychopharmacology; schizophrenia.
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020 7848 0873
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Psychiatry; addiction and molecular genetics.
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020 7848 0397
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Molecular genetics of eating disorders; schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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020 7848 0631
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Study of psychopathic tendencies combining cognitive neuroscience and behaviour genetic approaches.
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020 7848 0038
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Cognitive neuroscience, specifically studies of autism spectrum disorders and investigation of related typical and atypical developmental processes (e.g. social cognition, local-global processing, savant skills).
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020 7848 0928
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Statistical genetics; behavioural genetics: developing methods for analysing (selected) data.
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020 7848 0890
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Mood, psychosis and addiction biology and genetics; the genetics of complex psychiatric disorders and co-morbid disorders; genetic technologies and bioinformatics.
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020 7848 0409
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Addiction biology using genetics, molecular biological and neuroimaging techniques; pharmacogenetics.
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020 7848 5314
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Molecular genetics; high throughput association studies; epigenetics and sex differences in behaviour.
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020 7848 0018
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Statistical methods for analysing complex traits.
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020 7848 0662
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Epigenetics; the molecular basis for gene-environment interactions.
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020 7848 5433
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Genetic influences on cognition and behaviour; developmental disorders; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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020 7848 0930
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Children's social emotional and sociocognitive development; parent - child, sibling and peer relationships; development of language and communication abilities; adjustment and development of children in step families.
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020 7848 0893
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Psychiatric pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics.
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Functional genomics, systems genetics, mouse behaviour.
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020 7848 0279
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Victimisation; mental disorders; antisocial behaviours and their development.
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020 7848 0647
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Behavioural phenotypes of genetics disorders.
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020 7848 5325
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Genetics of normal and abnormal behaviour including psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia and conduct disorders; research encompasses quantitative and molecular genetic approaches as well as the co-action and interaction of genes and environment.
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020 7848 0871
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Genetics of ADHD and related neurodevelopmental disorders; clinical and genetic studies of ADHD in adults; mapping genes in common complex neuropsychiatric disorders; functional studies aimed at delinating the brain processes that mediate genetic risk on ADHD.
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020 7848 0078
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Psychology; learning abilities and disabilities; quantitative and molecular genetics.
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020 7848 0893
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Developmental psychopathology; gene-environment interplay; antisocial behaviours and their development.
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020 7848 0837
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Child and adolescent psychiatry, quantitative and molecular genetics, epidemiology, lifespan development, psychological influences, resilience, neuropsychiatry, and school effectiveness.
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020 7848 0882
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Functional genetics. Research at the molecular and cellular levels, including analysis of signal transduction pathways, gene expressions, and genetic contributions, to study fundamental processes controlling neuronal function, and their abnormalities in neuropsychiatric disorders. A major focus of the research is drug addiction.
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020 7848 0528
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Natural history of antisocial behaviour from childhood to adulthood; intelligence; domestic violence; longitudinal research methodology; measurement of abnormal behaviour; neuropsychological assessment; behavioural genetics.
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020 7848 0936
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Behavioural genetic approaches to developmental psychopathology, particularly anxiety and depression. Links between normal and abnormal development, comorbidity and heterogeneity. Exploring mechanisms of risk and gene-environment interaction using molecular genetic and cognitive psychological approaches.
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020 7848 0863
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Statistical methods of gene identification for complex traits; microarray and proteomics experiments.
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+44 (0)20 7848 0827
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Control of gene expression in the brain; functional analysis of genetic polymorphisms that are associated with behavioural disorders using in vitro methods.
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020 7848 0741
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Ursula.D'Souza@iop.kcl.ac.uk
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