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Amy Bilderbeck
DPhil Experimental Psychology
Honorary Member
My research is eclectic, covering cognitive and behavioural testing, MRI, remote monitoring and big data, and qualitative research. Rather than specializing in a given area, what excites me is to drive collaborations, and thereby be part of the teams that represent interdisciplinary (and often widely international) innovations in research science. As an extension of this I've become increasingly interested in the synergies that are possible between the private and public sectors, and also in pre-competitive industry consortia; these projects can result in uniquely exciting possibilities for the development of treatments and interventions for mental health issues.
I completed my DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the Department of Psychiatry and worked as a post doc there for 5 years (2011-2016), on a number of projects which broadly focused on mood instability. In 2016 I moved to work at P1vital Ltd, an enterprise with close connections to the Department of Psychiatry, and where I manage a small scientific team. My current work involves the leveraging of 'experimental medicine' approaches in the development of new pharmaceutical compounds for a range of psychiatric disorders, and biomarker development, for example in the PRISM project. I am also part of the team testing a novel smartphone application to improve treatments for depression, in the PReDicT project. The clinical areas I have conducted research in include depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and more recently schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
My connections to the Department of Psychiatry continue to be an important source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment. Many of my most exciting projects have been fostered by the Department and its members.
Key publications
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Oxford Lithium Trial (OxLith): a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled study of the early affective, cognitive, neural and biochemical effects of lithium carbonate in bipolar disorde
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Geddes JR. et al, Trials
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The effects of medication and current mood upon facial emotion recognition: findings from a large bipolar disorder cohort study.
Journal article
Bilderbeck AC. et al, (2017), Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 31, 320 - 326
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Linking changes in heart rate variability to mood changes in daily life
Conference paper
Carr O. et al, (2017), Computing in Cardiology, 44, 1 - 4
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Distinguishing bipolar disorder from borderline personality disorder: A study of current clinical practice.
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Saunders KEA. et al, (2015), Eur Psychiatry, 30, 965 - 974
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Participation in a 10-week course of yoga improves behavioural control and decreases psychological distress in a prison population.
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Bilderbeck AC. et al, (2013), J Psychiatr Res, 47, 1438 - 1445
Recent publications
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Digital Data Capture in the Characterisation of Diurnal Correlates of Mood Instability
Conference paper
Saunders K. et al, (2018), BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 83, S3 - S3
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Plasma glutathione suggests oxidative stress is equally present in early- and late-onset bipolar disorder.
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Singh N. et al, (2018), Bipolar Disord
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Working definitions, subjective and objective assessments and experimental paradigms in a study exploring social withdrawal in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease
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van der Wee NJA. et al, (2018), Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
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Erratum to: Online information seeking by patients with bipolar disorder: results from an international multisite survey.
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Conell J. et al, (2017), Int J Bipolar Disord, 5
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Longitudinal mood monitoring in bipolar disorder: Course of illness as revealed through a short messaging service.
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McKnight RF. et al, (2017), Journal of affective disorders, 223, 139 - 145