Eve Cordelia Johnstone (born 1 September 1944) is a Scottish

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er,

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and

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. Her main research area is in the field of

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and psychotic illness. She is emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Assistant Principal for Mental Health Research Development and Public Understanding of Medicine at the

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. She is best known for her 1976 groundbreaking study that showed brain abnormalities in schizophrenic patients compared to a control group.

Early life and education

Eve Cordelia Johnstone was born on 1 September 1944 in Glasgow. Her parents were Dorothy Mary and William Gillespie Johnstone, a

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. She attended Park School in Glasgow before going on to study medicine at the

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, graduating with her

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in 1967. From 1968 to 1972, she continued her training in hospitals in Glasgow specialising in

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Career and research

Having completed her training she lectured in psychological medicine at the University of Glasgow. In 1974 she took a position at the Medical Research Council research clinic in Harrow,

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. While at the MRC Johnstone lead a group of researchers in the study of the brains of schizophrenic patients. She used a

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ner to generate brain images, and demonstrated that there were

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differences between the brains of people with schizophrenia and a normal control group. She was also a pioneer in researching individuals at high risk of developing schizophrenia and potential preventative treatment. In addition to her research interests, Johnstone is a full-time consultant psychiatrist at the

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. She is also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh and an Assistant Principal at the

. From 1991 to 1994, she was a member of the

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. Johnstone's personal interests include card-playing, gardening, listening to opera, and travel.

Awards and honours

In recognition for her research and work she has received several honours and awards: * Fellow of the

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, 1984 * Fellow of the

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, 1992 * Fellow of the

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, 1998 *

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(CBE), 2002 * Fellow of the

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, 2005 * Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research from

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, 2007NARSAD to Present 2007 Prizes for Outstanding Psychiatric Research at New York Gala, October 19th
– press-release at the NARSAD website, 15 October 2007. * Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 2014 * Fellow of the

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* Fellow of the

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Selected works

* ''Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction'' (

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series) by Christopher Frith and Eve Johnstone * ''Searching for the Causes of Schizophrenia'' (Oxford Medical Publications) by Eve C. Johnstone, 1994 * ''Biological Psychiatry'' by Eve C. Johnstone, 1996 * ''Schizophrenia: Concepts and Clinical Management'' by Eve C. Johnstone, Martin S. Humphreys, Fiona H. Lang, and Stephen M. Lawrie, 1999 * ''Companion to Psychiatric Studies'' by Eve Johnstone, C. Freeman, and A. Zealley, 1999 * ''Schizophrenia: From Neuroimaging to Neuroscience'' by Daniel R. Weinberger, Eve C. Johnstone, 2005

References

External links

Eve Johnstone – psychiatrist
– at Medical Research Council website {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnstone, Eve 1944 births Living people Scottish neuroscientists British women neuroscientists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish psychiatrists Schizophrenia researchers Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics from Glasgow 21st-century Scottish women medical doctors 21st-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish women academics British women psychiatrists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Medical doctors from Glasgow