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Email	anya.topiwala@psych.ox.ac.uk
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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.

I am funded by the MRC, and have received the Gosling Fellowship for Neuropsychiatry research from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Ruth and Nevill Mott Scholarship at Linacre College, and grants from Alzheimer's Research UK and the University of Oxford.

Neurobiology of Ageing

Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study
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
Griffanti L. et al, (2017), Neuroimage
A MRI study examining sub-threshold depressive symptoms within the Whitehall II cohort
Allan CL. et al, (2016), J Affect Dis, 204, 219 - 225
Resilience and MRI correlates of cognitive impairment in community dwelling elders
Topiwala A. et al, (2015), British Journal of Psychiatry
Hypomania
Allan CL. et al, (2015), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, 3, 949 - 954
Establishing the cause of memory loss in older people
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
Allan CL. et al, (2014), The British Journal of Psychiatry
Using structural and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging to differentiate the dementias
Suri S. et al, (2014), Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep, 14, 475 - 489
Prescribing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in older age.
Topiwala A. et al, (2014), Maturitas, 77, 118 - 123
Psychiatric disorders in patients presenting to hospital following self-harm: A systematic review
Hawton K. et al, (2013), Journal of Affective Disorders, 151, 821 - 830
Biological Treatment of Mood Disorders
Allan CL. et al, (2013), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mood Disorders, 143 - 172
Identifying patients at risk of perinatal mood disorders.
Topiwala A. et al, (2012), Practitioner, 256, 15 - 2
Chinese forensic psychiatry and its wider implications
Topiwala A. et al, (2012), Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 23, 1 - 6
Vascular changes and brain plasticity: a new approach to neurodegenerative diseases.
Topiwala A. and Ebmeier KP., (2012), Am J Neurodegener Dis, 1, 152 - 159
The pharmacological management of violence in schizophrenia: a structured review
Topiwala A. and Fazel S., (2011), Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 11, 53 - 63

Key publications

Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study
Topiwala A. et al, (2017), British Medical Journal, 357

Moderate alcohol consumption as a risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study
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
Griffanti L. et al, (2017), Neuroimage
A MRI study examining sub-threshold depressive symptoms within the Whitehall II cohort
Allan CL. et al, (2016), J Affect Dis, 204, 219 - 225
Resilience and MRI correlates of cognitive impairment in community dwelling elders
Topiwala A. et al, (2015), British Journal of Psychiatry
Hypomania
Allan CL. et al, (2015), Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, 3, 949 - 954

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