Anya Topiwala

BA (Hons) BMBCh (Oxon) MRCPsych DPhil (Oxon)

Senior Clinical Researcher

Consultant Psychiatrist (OUHFT)

I am a Senior Clinical Researcher and Consultant Psychiatrist. My particular research interest is risk and resilience factors for cognitive impairment, and the neural mechanisms underpinning these, using Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an investigative tool. A particular interest is the association of alcohol consumption with adverse brain outcomes. I am currently working on the MRC-funded study "Predicting MRI abnormalities with longitudinal data of the Whitehall II Substudy", which will image 800 participants in the Whitehall II cohort.

My funding has been through the MRC, the Ruth and Nevill Mott Scholarship at Linacre College, and grants from Alzheimer's Research UK and the University of Oxford. Recent prizes include the Gosling Fellowship from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Junior Investigator Award from the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, and a European Psychiatry Society Research prize.

Neurobiology of Ageing

Key publications

Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study
Journal article

Topiwala A. et al, (2017), British Medical Journal, 357

Recent publications

Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study
Journal article

Topiwala A. et al, (2017), British Medical Journal, 357
Classification and characterization of periventricular and deep white matter hyperintensities on MRI: a study in older adults
Journal article

Griffanti L. et al, (2017), Neuroimage
A MRI study examining sub-threshold depressive symptoms within the Whitehall II cohort
Journal article

Allan CL. et al, (2016), J Affect Dis, 204, 219 - 225
Resilience and MRI correlates of cognitive impairment in community dwelling elders
Journal article

Topiwala A. et al, (2015), British Journal of Psychiatry
Hypomania
Chapter

Allan CL. et al, (2015), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, 3, 949 - 954
Establishing the cause of memory loss in older people
Journal article

Chouliaras L. et al, (2015), The Practitioner, 1778, 15 - 19
Lifetime hypertension as a predictor of brain structure in older adults: cohort study with a 28-year follow up
Journal article

Allan CL. et al, (2014), The British Journal of Psychiatry
Using structural and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging to differentiate the dementias
Journal article

Suri S. et al, (2014), Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep, 14, 475 - 489
Prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in older age.
Journal article

Topiwala A. et al, (2014), Maturitas, 77, 118 - 123
Psychiatric disorders in patients presenting to hospital following self-harm: A systematic review
Journal article

Hawton K. et al, (2013), Journal of Affective Disorders, 151, 821 - 830

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