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Full NameProfessor Louise Gallagher

Discipline of Psychiatry

Trinity College Dublin

Webpage:medicine.tcd.ie

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Research Fields

genetics, genomics and molecular biology
neuroscience and mental health
clinical trials

Medical Subspecialties

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Neuropsychiatry

My Work

The Autism and Related Disorders Research Group (Group Head: Prof. Louise Gallagher) is an interdisciplinary group of research scientists and clinicians with expertise in molecular and statistical genetics, neuroimaging (MRI) and behavioural phenotyping. The group is engaged in research oriented towards better understanding the causes of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and other related neurodevelopmental disorders to provide improved diagnostic methods and treatments/ interventions.

Key activities of the group include investigation of rare and common genetic variation in autism, the interplay between genetics and the behavioral/ neurocognitive characteristics of autism and related disorders and understanding functional and structural brain connectivity. In-house research projects are well integrated with the activities of a range of research collaborations including the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium (PGC) Autism Genome Project (AGP), MSSNG, the UK10K sequencing program, The Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE).

The group is affiliated with the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group and the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and has access to wet and dry lab space, 3T MRI scanner and Electrophysiology suite. The group has expertise in molecular genetics analyses, functional and structural neuroimaging analyses and expert behavioural phenotyping and neurocognitive testing.