International Journal of Mental Health & PsychiatryISSN: 2471-4372

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Fiona McNicholas Author

Subjects of specialization
Depression; Children; Adolescent; MRI, Genetics; Systems neuroscience

Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University College Dublin, Ireland

Biography

Professor Fiona McNicholas is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Lucena Clinic, Rathgar and Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin.She trained in Psychiatry in Guys Hospital, and in Child Psychiatry in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. She carried out a research fellowship in Stanford University, CA in 1999-2001 and returned as visiting professor in 2013/2014.


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Systems Neuroscience in Children and Adolescent Depression

Author(s):

Tomoya Hirota, Gordana Milavi?, Fiona McNicholas, Thomas Frodl, Norbert Skokauskas

Depression is one of the most common psychological disorders in children and adolescents often presenting as a severe, chronic and recurring condition with a high risk of self-harm and suicide. Normal brain development during adolescence is necessary to put into context when investigating biology of adolescent depression. There is an uneven timeline for development going from ‘bottom up’ with the subcortical limbic areas developing firs... view moreĀ»

DOI: 10.4172/2471-4372.1000126

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