Kathryn Abel
Kathryn M. Abel FRCP FRCPsych is co-Chair of the Office for Life Sciences and UK Govt's Mental Health Mission and NIHR National Lead for Mental Health Lead. She is an internationally recognised British psychiatrist specialising clinically in resistant schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. She is a clinical academic, professor of Psychological Medicine and Director of both the Centre for Women's Mental Health and GM.Digital (formerly CAMHS.Digital) Research Unit at the University of Manchester.She is a European Research Council Fellow and National Institutes of Health Research Senior Investigator and a former member of the Academic Faculty Executive at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appraisal Committee C between 2008 and 2018.
Her research focusses on maternal condition, maternal early environment and how it influences brain development and later cognitive skill of offspring. She highlights sex differences and gender-specific approaches in research and in service development. She uses population data in the UK, Scandinavia and Western Australia for epidemiological studies of maternal exposures and offspring outcomes. She also uses functional imaging in mothers to understand maternal brain and how it relates to maternal sensitivity to infants. Abel has developed paradigms for scanning infant brains as a way of examining the effects of maternal exposures on infant development. She has led a number of influential studies published in the ''The Lancet'' on the population mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
She is currently collaborating with the Lata Medical Research Foundation in Nagpur, India to support development of screening and prevention of common mental disorders in women and girls in rural villages.
She is co-editor of a number of textbooks, including ''The Female Mind'' (RCPSYH 2017) and ''Comprehensive Women's Mental Health'' (Cambridge 2016). Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Mary Kathryn Abel, Raagini Suresh, Jodie Raffi, Kristin Razzeca, Jenny E. MuraseGet full text
Published 2020-06-01
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4by Mary Kathryn Abel, H Charles Li, Frank A Russo, Gottfried Schlaug, Psyche LouiGet full text
Published 2016-01-01
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5by Dawn Edge, Amy Degnan, Sarah Cotterill, Katherine Berry, John Baker, Richard Drake, Kathryn AbelGet full text
Published 2018-09-01
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7by Henna Lemetyinen, Juliana Onwumere, Richard James Drake, Kathryn Abel, Carol Haigh, Georgina Moulton, Dawn EdgeGet full text
Published 2018-11-01
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9by Peter Bower, Christos Grigoroglou, Laura Anselmi, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Matthew Sutton, Mark Ashworth, Philip Evans, Stephen Lock, Stephen Smye, Kathryn AbelGet full text
Published 2020-05-01
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10by Penny Bee, Peter Bower, Sarah Byford, Rachel Churchill, Rachel Calam, Paul Stallard, Steven Pryjmachuk, Kathryn Berzins, Maria Cary, Ming Wan, Kathryn AbelGet full text
Published 2014-02-01
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11by Mary Kathryn Abel, Heather Greenwood, Tatiana Kelil, Ruby Guo, Case Brabham, Nola Hylton, Jasmine Wong, Michael Alvarado, Cheryl Ewing, Laura J. Esserman, Judy C. Boughey, Rita A. MukhtarGet full text
Published 2021-03-01
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