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Angharad de Cates
BMBCh (Hons), DPhil, PGCert Higher Ed, MRCPsych, FHEA
Honorary Member
- NIHR Clinical Lecturer & Registrar in Adult Psychiatry, Institute for Mental Health, University of Birimingham
- Specialty Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry
- Honorary Postdoctoral Clinical Researcher, University of Oxford
Until February 2024, I was clinical postdoctoral fellow funded by the Guarantors of Brain in the department, supported by Professor Catherine Harmer and Dr Susannah Murphy (DoP, Oxford), Professor Thomas Nichols and Dr Anya Topiwala (BDI, Oxford) and Professor Rachel Upthegrove (Birmingham). I also completed a DPhil (part-time) in the department between 2018 and 2022, supervised by Catherine Harmer, Phil Cowen and Susannah Murphy.
I'm now an NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, mentored by Professor Rachel Upthegrove. I'm continuing to collaborate with members of the department via the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.
My research interests include neurocognition, self-harm and psychopharmacology across different mental illnesses - especially involving mood and psychotic disorders. I also am interested in investigating whether one group of new agents, which act as agonists at the 5HT4 receptor, may work as antidepressants and / or improve cognition in humans using behavioural tasks and brain imaging.
I am a Specialty Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry and am a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
I am also a trainee editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Key publications
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5-HT4 Receptor Agonist Effects on Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain: Implications for Procognitive Action.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2023), Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging, 8, 1124 - 1134
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The Effect of the 5-HT4 Agonist, Prucalopride, on a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Faces Task in the Healthy Human Brain.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2022), Front Psychiatry, 13
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Déjà-vu? Neural and behavioural effects of the 5-HT4 receptor agonist, prucalopride, in a hippocampal-dependent memory task.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2021), Transl Psychiatry, 11
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Self-harm, suicidal ideation, and the positive symptoms of psychosis: Cross-sectional and prospective data from a national household survey.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2021), Schizophr Res, 233, 80 - 88
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Gender equality in academic publishing: action from the BJPsych.
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Upthegrove R. et al, (2021), Br J Psychiatry, 218, 128 - 130
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Translating the promise of 5HT4 receptor agonists for the treatment of depression.
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Murphy SE. et al, (2021), Psychol Med, 51, 1111 - 1120
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Attempting to disentangle the relationship between impulsivity and longitudinal self-harm: Epidemiological analysis of UK household survey data.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2019), Int J Soc Psychiatry, 65, 114 - 122
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Can curriculum design influence medical students' attitudes to psychiatry? A comparison of two different approaches.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2019), Med Teach, 41, 939 - 948
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Are neurocognitive factors associated with repetition of self-harm? A systematic review.
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de Cates AN. et al, (2017), Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 72, 261 - 277
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Mental well-being: an important outcome for mental health services?
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de Cates A. et al, (2015), Br J Psychiatry, 207, 195 - 197
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Separate neural pathways process different decision costs.
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Rudebeck PH. et al, (2006), Nat Neurosci, 9, 1161 - 1168
Recent publications
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The value of mental science: we publish what matters.
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Malhi GS. et al, (2025), Br J Psychiatry, 1 - 5