Dr. Liana Romaniuk

Biography

I am a child adolescent psychiatrist and clinical senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow. Clinically, I work in the NHS Ayrshire Arran CAMHS Urgent Assessment Intensive Treatment Team (CUAIT). Prior to this, I was a senior clinical lecturer in the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh and a consultant psychiatrist at the CAMHS Melville Inpatient Unit, NHS Lothian. My journey in psychiatry has been unconventional; I hold a degree in Cybernetics and a PhD in Neuroinformatics, where my thesis focused on the functional neuroanatomy of action selection in schizophrenia. I am passionate about neuroscience and enjoy activities such as motorbiking, crocheting, and singing. My research focuses on applying computational methods to neuroimaging datasets to develop a mechanistic understanding of mental illness, particularly during its prodromal phase. I am especially interested in understanding how flexible thinking and personal autonomy can be maintained and bolstered during illness, with the hope of guiding the development of new treatments and aiding young people in making individual choices for their recoveries. I aim to bring brain-informed objective measures into clinical practice to help individuals understand their experiences, strengths, and to promote optimal therapeutic engagements.

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