Heather Whalley
Scottish neuroscientist
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Education
Heather completed her MSc (Distinction) & PhD at the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, investigating neuroimaging data in adolescent individuals at familial risk for psychiatric conditions. She has since been awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, a John, Margaret, Alfred and Stewart Sim (JMAS) Research Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and an Edinburgh Scientist Academic Track (ESAT) Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh.
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Career
She leads the imaging research group in psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh which has extensive links with several international consortia including the Psychiatric Genomics Consortia, IMAGEMEND and ENIGMA. The group focuses on how causal factors (genetic and environmental) contribute to conditions through their impact on brain structure and function using large population-based data resources where available, and identifying how brain structure and function mediate effects on behaviour.