Summary
Paul Ramchandani is visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Imperial College. He undertook his medical studies in Southampton before obtaining a degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He then completed training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and obtained a DPhil from Oxford University in 2005.
Research
Paul's research at Imperial College is focussed on early child development and particularly on the prevention of emotional and behavioural problems in the early years of life. This research has been supported by Fellowships awarded by the MRC and Wellcome Trust and more recently by substantive grant funding from the National Institute of Health Research. His team use a variety of research methodologies to investigate this area including the development and testing of clinical interventions, population epidemiology, and detailed observational studies of parent-child interaction and the biology of the stress response system.
For details of Paul's substantive post please see the website of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge website where Paul is the LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning.
Publications
Journals
Lambregtse-van den Berg MP, Tiemeier H, Verhulst FC, et al., 2018, Early childhood aggressive behaviour: Negative interactions with paternal antisocial behaviour and maternal postpartum depressive symptoms across two international cohorts., Eur Psychiatry, Vol:54, Pages:77-84
Fernandes M, Srinivasan K, Menezes G, et al., 2018, Prenatal depression, fetal neurobehavior, and infant temperament: Novel insights on early neurodevelopment from a socioeconomically disadvantaged Indian cohort, Development and Psychopathology, Vol:30, ISSN:0954-5794, Pages:725-742
Asarnow J, Bloch MH, Brandeis D, et al., 2018, Special Editorial: Open science and the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry - next steps?, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol:59, ISSN:0021-9630, Pages:826-827
Fear NT, Reed RV, Rowe S, et al., 2018, Impact of paternal deployment to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and paternal post-traumatic stress disorder on the children of military fathers, British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol:212, ISSN:0007-1250, Pages:347-355
Sethna V, Murray L, Edmondson O, et al., 2018, Depression and playfulness in fathers and young infants: A matched design comparison study, Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol:229, ISSN:0165-0327, Pages:364-370