Dr.(Prof.) Edward T. Bullmore

I am interested in understanding human brain network organization from neuroimaging data in health and disease. My recent methodological work has focused on graph theory to measure aspects of brain network topology. I am also interested in better neuroscientific understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders. I am currently leading a consortium funded by the Wellcome Trust and pharmaceutical companies (GSK, Janssen, Lundbeck) - the Neuroimmunology of Mood Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease (NIMA) consortium - which is exploring immune mechanisms and therapeutics for depression and dementia. Professor Ed Bullmore came to Cambridge as a Professor of Psychiatry in 1999, after undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oxford and King's College, London, where he played a prominent role at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is one of the most distinguished research psychiatrists in the UK with an international reputation. His research mainly involves the application of brain imaging to psychiatry. He has introduced an entirely original approach to the analysis of human brain anatomy, involving graph theory and its application to small world networks. This has had an enormous impact on the field, especially in relation to understanding the biological basis of schizophrenia and depression. His work has been key to the understanding of the 'wiring' of the human brain. He was Head of the Department of Psychiatry from 2014 – 2021 and is currently Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre. He has been a Vice-President at GlaxoSmithKline, researching how anti-inflammatory drugs may be used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. His popular science book "The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression” was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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• Neuroscience
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