Professor Andrew McIntosh is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Division of Psychiatry, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He trained in Medicine at the University of Aberdeen before completing his postgraduate training in Edinburgh in Psychiatry and in Applied Statistics. He leads the Generation Scotland Expert Working Group for Psychiatric Disorders and co-chairs the Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) at the same university.
His research seeks to better understand the causes and consequences of depression and resilience using a number of methods including genetic analysis, NHS data linkage, clinical and cognitive measurement and brain imaging. His main areas of research interests focus on the genetic and environmental causes of depression and public engagement around the use of mental health data in research.