Eve Johnstone

Eve Johnstone
Eve Cordelia Johnstone CBE FRCP FRCPE FRCPGla FRCPsych FMedSci FRSE (born 1 September 1944) is a Scottish physician, clinical researcher, psychiatrist and academic. Her main research area is in the field of schizophrenia 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 University of Edinburgh. 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 dental surgeon. She attended Park School in Glasgow before going on to study medicine at the University of Glasgow, graduating with her MB ChB in 1967. From 1968 to 1972, she continued her training in hospitals in Glasgow specialising in psychiatry.
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, London. While at the MRC Johnstone lead a group of researchers in the study of the brains of schizophrenic patients. She used a CT scanner to generate brain images, and demonstrated that there were anatomical 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 Royal Edinburgh Hospital. She is also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh and an Assistant Principal at the University of Edinburgh.
From 1991 to 1994, she was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
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 Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1984
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1992
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), 2002
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2005
Lieber Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Schizophrenia Research from NARSAD, 2007
Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 2014
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Selected works
Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions 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
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
Scottish women 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