Professor

Sarah Medland

OAM FAA FASSA FAHMS

Sarah Medland
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Sarah Medland is a psychiatric and statistical geneticist working on neuroimaging genetics and mental health. She was instrumental in the formation of the ENIGMA brain imaging consortium, and chairs the genetic working group within this consortium. Medland’s work has significantly advanced our understanding of the ways that genetics influences the structure and function of the human brain. She discovered that there are many genetic variants of small effect size that affect the morphology of the brain and that many of these variants also influence risk for developing psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3105 GENETICS
    • 310511 Neurogenetics
    • 60412 Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics)
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES 4203 HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS
  • 420313 Mental Health
52 PSYCHOLOGY
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Mental Health
  • Applied Statistics
  • Genotype-Phenotype Relationships
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Human Genetics
  • Neuroscience
  • Medical Sciences

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