Official position
Director, Centre for Affective Disorders, Vice Dean Academic Psychiatry
Institution
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
Business address
16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK
Academic education and degrees
1979 - 1984 | MB ChB in Medicine with Distinction in Psychiatry ,University of Edinburgh Medical School |
1990 | MPhil in Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh |
1996 | PhD in Psychiatry , University of Edinburgh |
1984 | General Medical Council Provisional Registration no. 2940162 |
1985 | General Medical Council Full Registration no 2940162 |
1988 | Certification in Basic Psychiatry Training, MRC Psych |
1994 | Completion of Higher Psychiatry Training |
Professional career
1984 - 1985 | House Physician / Surgeon Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and City Hospital Edinburgh |
1985 - 1989 | Postgraduate Student & Trainee Psychiatrist, University of Edinburgh |
1989 - 1992 | Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh |
1992 - 1994 | Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford |
1994 - 1999 | Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
1999 - 2007 | Professor, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| 2005 - 2010 | Professor of Psychiatry, Leading Edge Endowment Fund Chair in Depression Research, Director of the Institute of Mental Health University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 2010 - 2013 | Chair of Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Mental Health, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London |
| 2013 to date | Chair of Mood Disorders and Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London |
Honors, awards and positions
2004 | Election to Fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists |
2005 | Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia |
2006 | Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, FRCPC |
2016 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology |
Current journal editorial positions
| 2000 - present | Journal of Psychopharmacology, Assistant Editor, Member of Editorial Advisory Board and Intl. Editorial Board |
| 2000 - present | Human Psychopharmacology, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2000 - present | Frontiers in Affective Disorders, Member of Associate Editorial Board |
| 2000 - present | Current Psychiatry Reviews, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2000 - present | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Member of International Advisory Board |
| 2000 - present | Clinical Approaches in Bipolar Disorders, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2000 - present | Brain Pharmacology, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2006 - present | Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2006 - present | Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Editor (Americas), Member of Editorial Board |
| 2007 - present | The Open Psychiatry Journal (Bentham Science Publishers), Member of Editorial Advisory Board |
| 2010 - present | Society of Biological Psychiatry Newsletter, Member of Editorial Board Quarterly Journal of Mental Health, Member of Editorial Board |
| 2013 - present | Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii (Pharmacotherapy in Psychiatry and Neurology), Member of Editorial Board |
| 2020 - present | Minerva Psichiatrica, Editorial Committee member |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of:
of ~500, h-index: 80)
Lee SH, Ripke S, Neale BM, Faraone SV, Purcell SM, … Young AH et al. Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs. Nature genetics. 2013;45(9): 984.
Sklar P, Ripke S, Scott LJ, Andreassen OA, Cichon S, … Young AH et al. Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4. Nature genetics. 2011;43(10): 977.
Network T, O'Dushlaine C, Rossin L, Lee PH, Duncan L, ... Young AH et al. Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways. Nature neuroscience.2015;18(2), 199-209.
Pacchiarotti I, Bond DJ, Baldessarini RJ, Nolen WA, Grunze H, ... Young AH et al. The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2013;170(11):1249-1262.
Angst J, Azorin JM, Bowden CL, Perugi G … Young AH. Prevalence and characteristics of undiagnosed bipolar disorders in patients with a major depressive episode: the BRIDGE study. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(8):791-799.
Goodwin GM, Haddad PM, Ferrier IN, Aronson JK, Barnes, … Young AH et al. Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: revised third edition recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2016;30(6):495-553.
Cleare A, Pariante CM, Young AH, Anderson IM, Christmas D et al. Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: a revision of the 2008 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2015;29(5):459-525.
Hibar DP, Westlye LT, van Erp TG, Rasmussen J, Leonardo CD, … Young AH et al. Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder. Molecular psychiatry. 2016;21(12):1710-1716.
Wise T, Radua J, Via E , Cardoner N, Abe O, … Young AH et al. Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis. Molecular psychiatry. 2017;22(10):1455-1463.
Hibar DP, Westlye LT, Doan NT, Jahanshad N, Cheung JW, … Young AH, et al. Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: an MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group. Molecular psychiatry. 2018;23(4):932-942.
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