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Craig Morgan is Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also co-founder and co-director of the cross-faculty ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. His research is focused on social and cultural influences on the onset, course and outcome of mental disorders, particularly during adolescence. He leads several multi-country programmes on these topics, funded by, among others, the MRC, Wellcome Trust, ESRC, and European Union. He has published over 250 academic papers on these topics, and edited three books, including Society and Psychosis, published by Cambridge University Press, and Principles of Social Psychiatry, published by Wiley-Blackwell. He leads the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Psychoses in Global Context and is editor-in-chief of the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology and Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

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King's College London

Dec-2002 to Present

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Ten-year outcomes in first episode psychotic major depression patients compared with schizophrenia and bipolar patients

We aimed to investigate long-term outcomes in psychotic major depression patients compared to schizophrenia and bipolar/manic psychosis patients, in an incidence sample, while accounting for...

  • dott image May, 2020

Premorbid Adjustment and IQ in Patients With First-Episode Psychosis: A Multisite Case-Control Study of Their Relationship With Cannabis Use

Psychotic patients with a lifetime history of cannabis use generally show better cognitive functioning than other psychotic patients. Some authors suggest that cannabis-using patients may ha...

  • dott image January, 2020

The EUropean Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene–Environment Interactions (EU-GEI): Incidence and First-Episode Case–Control ...

Journal : Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Purpose The EUropean Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene–Environment Interactions (EU-GEI) study contains an unparalleled wealth of comprehensive data that allows for...

  • dott image November, 2019

The independent and combined influence of schizophrenia polygenic risk score and heavy cannabis use on risk for psychotic disorder: A case-control ana...

Background: Some recent studies have challenged the direction of causality for the association between cannabis use and psychotic disorder, suggesting that cannabis use initiation is explain...

  • dott image September, 2019

Neuropsychological function at first episode in treatment-resistant psychosis: findings from the ÆSOP-10 study

Background Neuropsychological investigations can help untangle the aetiological and phenomenological heterogeneity of schizophrenia but have scarcely been employed in the context of treatme...

  • dott image July, 2019

Cognitive Change in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses in the Decade Following the First Episode

Objective: Schizophrenia is associated with a marked cognitive impairment that is widely believed to remain stable after illness onset. Yet, to date, 10-year prospective studies of cognitiv...

  • dott image May, 2019

The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI): a multicentre case-control study

Background Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of later psychotic disorder but whether it affects incidence of the disorder remains unclear. We aimed to identify patterns of cann...

  • dott image March, 2019

Cannabis-associated symptom profiles in patients with first episode psychosis and population controls

Objective The evidence is mixed on whether cannabis use is associated with a particular symptomatology in first episode psychosis (FEP) patients. The authors set out to investigate a) pat...

  • dott image February, 2019

Insight and risk of suicidal behaviour in two first-episode psychosis cohorts: Effects of previous suicide attempts and depression

Background The role of insight dimensions – illness recognition (IR), symptoms relabelling (SR), treatment compliance (TC) - in suicide risk in first-episode psychosis (FEP) remains uncle...

  • dott image September, 2018

Early sustained recovery following first episode psychosis: Evidence from the AESOP10 follow-up study

Objective To describe the characteristics of individuals with early sustained recovery following first episode psychosis. Methods Individuals with a first episode psychosis were followed-...