Professor Dheeraj Rai
MBBS, FRCPsych, PhD
Current positions
Professor of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Assessing the associations between autism, autistic traits and multiple risk behaviours in adolescence: a longitudinal population-based birth cohort study
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
A PhD mini project, Assessing the associations between autism, autistic traits and multiple risk behaviours in adolescence: a longitudinal population-based birth cohort study;Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2019 to 30/09/2020
Thesis supervisions
Assessing causality of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring intellectual disability
Supervisors
At the intersection of autism and psychosis
Supervisors
Anti-seizure medication prescription during preconception period and pregnancy with risk of orofacial clefts in offspring
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
25/01/2024Association between antidepressant use during pregnancy and miscarriage
BMJ Open
Environmental and genetic predictors of whole blood mercury and selenium concentrations in pregnant women in the UK birth cohort
Environmental Advances
Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy
General Psychiatry
Sertraline for anxiety in adults with a diagnosis of autism (STRATA)
Trials