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 a UK birth cohort
Environmental Advances
First-trimester use of antiseizure medications and the risk of miscarriage: a population-based cohort study
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Mapping associations of polygenic scores with autistic and ADHD traits in a single city region
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring risk of intellectual disability
Frontiers in Psychiatry