Prof. Dr. Allan Young

Research Focus

Professor Young’s research interests focus on the cause and treatments for severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly mood disorders.

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Curriculum Vitae

	Professor Allan Young
Official position	Director, Centre for Affective Disorders, Vice Dean Academic Psychiatry
Institution	Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London
Business address	16 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK

Academic education and degrees

1979-1984	MB ChB in Medicine with Distinction in Psychiatry ,University of Edinburgh Medical School
1990	MPhil in Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
1996	PhD in Psychiatry , University of Edinburgh
1984	General Medical Council Provisional Registration no. 2940162
1985	General Medical Council Full Registration no 2940162
1988	Certification in Basic Psychiatry Training, MRC Psych
1994	Completion of Higher Psychiatry Training

Professional career

1984-1985	House Physician / Surgeon Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and City Hospital Edinburgh
1985-1989	Postgraduate Student & Trainee Psychiatrist, University of Edinburgh
1989-1992	Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
1992-1994	Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford
1994-1999	Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
1999-2007	Professor, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
2005-2010	Professor of Psychiatry, Leading Edge Endowment Fund Chair in Depression Research, Director of the Institute of Mental Health University of British Columbia, Canada
2010-2013	Chair of Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Mental Health, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London
2013 to date	Chair of Mood Disorders and Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London

Honors, awards and positions

2004	Election to Fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists
2005	Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
2006	Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, FRCPC
2016	Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology

Current journal editorial positions

2000-present	Journal of Psychopharmacology, Assistant Editor, Member of Editorial Advisory Board and Intl. Editorial Board
2000-present	Human Psychopharmacology, Member of Editorial Board
2000-present	Frontiers in Affective Disorders, Member of Associate Editorial Board
2000-present	Current Psychiatry Reviews, Member of Editorial Board
2000-present	Comprehensive Psychiatry, Member of International Advisory Board
2000-present	Clinical Approaches in Bipolar Disorders, Member of Editorial Board
2000-present	Brain Pharmacology, Member of Editorial Board
2006-present	Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Member of Editorial Board
2006-present	Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Editor (Americas), Member of Editorial Board
2007-present	The Open Psychiatry Journal (Bentham Science Publishers), Member of Editorial Advisory Board
2010-present	Society of Biological Psychiatry Newsletter, Member of Editorial Board
	Quarterly Journal of Mental Health, Member of Editorial Board
2013-present	Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii (Pharmacotherapy in Psychiatry and Neurology), Member of Editorial Board
2020-present	Minerva Psichiatrica, Editorial Committee member

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of: of +500, h-index: 80)

Lee SH, Ripke S, Neale BM, Faraone SV, Purcell SM … Young AH et al. Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs. Nature genetics. 2013;45(9): 984.

Sklar P, Ripke S, Scott LJ, Andreassen OA, Cichon S … Young AH et al. Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4. Nature genetics. 2011;43(10): 977.

Network T, O'Dushlaine C, Rossin L, Lee PH, Duncan L ... Young AH et al. Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways. Nature neuroscience.2015;18(2), 199-209.

Pacchiarotti I, Bond DJ, Baldessarini RJ, Nolen WA, Grunze H ... Young AH et al. The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2013;170(11):1249-1262.

Angst J, Azorin JM, Bowden CL, Perugi G … Young AH. Prevalence and characteristics of undiagnosed bipolar disorders in patients with a major depressive episode: the BRIDGE study. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011;68(8):791-799.

Goodwin GM, Haddad PM, Ferrier IN, Aronson JK, Barnes … Young AH et al. Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: revised third edition recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2016;30(6):495-553.

Cleare A, Pariante CM, Young AH, Anderson IM, Christmas D et al. Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: a revision of the 2008 British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2015;29(5):459-525.

Hibar DP, Westlye LT, van Erp TG, Rasmussen J, Leonardo CD … Young AH et al. Subcortical volumetric abnormalities in bipolar disorder. Molecular psychiatry. 2016;21(12):1710-1716.

Wise T, Radua J, Via E , Cardoner N, Abe O … Young AH et al. Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis. Molecular psychiatry. 2017;22(10):1455-1463.

Hibar DP, Westlye LT, Doan NT, Jahanshad N, Cheung JW … Young AH, et al. Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: an MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group. Molecular psychiatry. 2018;23(4):932-942.