The State Key Laboratory
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Grainne McAlonan, MBBS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, HKU
Office: Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam.
Email: mcalonan at hkucc dot hku dot hk
 
 
Grainne McAlonan received her medical training at University of Cambridge and University of London, U.K. She gained a PhD in behavioural neuroscience from University of Cambridge. Her research focus is on disorders of neurodevelopment, using MRI, along with neuropsychological and neurophysiological testing, to link brain and behaviour in people with autism, ADHD and schizophrenia. Future directions include modeling autism and schizophrenia in mice to probe brain structure, genetics and treatment approaches.
 

Selected Publications

McAlonan G.M., Cheung V., Cheung C., Chua S.E., Murphy D.G.M., Suckling J., Tai K.S., Yip L., Leung P.W.L. and Ho T.P. (2007). Mapping brain structure in attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder: A voxel-based MRI study of regional grey and white matter volume, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 154: 171-180.

Chua S.E., Cheung C., Cheung V., Tsang J.T.K., Chen E.Y.H., Wong J.C.H., Cheung J.P.Y., Yip L., Tai K.S., Suckling J. and McAlonan G.M. (In press 2007). Cerebral grey, white matter & CSF in never-medicated, first-episode Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia Research. Available on-line 10/2006, 89: 12- 21.

McAlonan G.M., Cheung V., Cheung C., Suckling J., Lam G.Y., Tai K.S., Yip L., Murphy D.G.M., and Chua S.E. (2005). Mapping the brain in autism. A voxel-based MRI study of volumetric differences and intercorrelations in autism. Brain 128, 268-276.

McAlonan G.M., Daly E., Kumari V., Critchley H.D., van Amelsvoort T., Suckling J., Simmons A., Sigmundsson T., Greenwood K., Russell A., Schmitz N., Happe F., Howlin P., and Murphy D.G.M. (2002). Brain anatomy and sensorimotor gating in Asperger's syndrome. Brain 125, 1594-1606.

Robbins TW, McAlonan GM, Muir JL and Everitt BJ. (1997). Cognitive enhancers in theory and practice: Studies of the cholinergic hypothesis of memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease. Behav. Br. Research:83:15-23.

McAlonan GM, Wilkinson LS, Robbins TW and Everitt BJ. (1995). The effects of AMPA induced lesions of the septohippocampal cholinergic projection on aversive conditioning to explicit and contextual cues and spatial learning in the water maze. European J Neuroscience:7:281-292.
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