SMHRN Profiles
Name:Dr Jonathan Cavanagh 
Qualifications:MB., ChB (Glas)., MPhil (Edin)., MRCPsych, M.D. (Edin) 
Work Address:Section of Psychological Medicine
Administration Building Trust HQ, 1st floor
Glasgow
G12 0XH 
Post:Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry 
Work Telephone:0141 201 2496 
Fax Number: 
Email:jc199d@clinmed.gla.ac.uk 
 
Information:
Jonathan qualified in Medicine from the University of Glasgow and commenced his psychiatric training in Edinburgh. He worked in the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit, specifically in functional neuroimaging (SPECT). Thereafter, he worked as a research fellow in Department of Psychiatry in the University of Edinburgh. Here he worked in two specific areas:- suicide research and latterly on the genetic aspects of serious mental illness - specifically on the endophenotypic aspects of neurocognitive impairment.

 

 
Research Interests:
  • Developing neuroimaging measurement in affective disorder in the medically ill.
  • Relationship between inflammatory response and brain change in depression among those with medical illnesses.
  • Prader Willi Syndrome
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