Research Fellow at the Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, has been awarded the prestigious UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship.
CACNA1C, a gene that encodes an alpha-1 subunit of L-type voltage-gated calcium channels, has been strongly associated with psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The past decade has seen the development of services for adults presenting with symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the UK. Compared with children, little is known about the phenotypic and genetic characteristics of these patients.
