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2011 Winter Meeting Original Communication Winner
Congratulations to Orla Power (WP1), University of Limerick who presented the best Poster Communication entitled A comparison of the insulinotropic and enterogastric response to ingestion of an equiva
Professor Ted Dinan
Contact Details
Department of Psychiatry,
University College Cork
Tel: +353-21-4816861
Email: t.dinan@ucc.ie
Academic Background
Ted Dinan is Professor of Psychiatry at University College Cork. He was previously Chair of Clinical Neurosciences and Professor of Psychological Medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. He has worked in research laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic and has a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Research Interests
Prof. Dinan's main research interests are in the biology of depression and functional bowel disorders and in this context he has made significant contributions to the literature on the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in situations of stress with particular emphasis on the role of vasopressin. In 1995 was awarded the Melvin Ramsey Prize for this research into the biology of stress. Prof. Dinan is co-ordinating FHI work programme 6a, the focus of which is to identify milk components that have a positive impact on body weight by modifying gut signals, stimulating serotonin activity and eliciting an adipokine response.
Publications
He has published over 180 papers and numerous books on the pharmacology and neurobiology of affective disorders. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals including the Journal of Affective Disorders, Human Psychopharmacology, Psychoneuroendocrinology and Stress and Health. Some of Prof. Dinan's recent publications include:
Dinan TG, Quigley E, O'Mahony S, O'Mahony L, Scully P, Shanahan F, Keeling PWN (2006) Hypothalamic-pituitary-gut axis dysregulation in irritable bowel syndrome: Plasma cytokines as a potential biomarker? Gastroenterology 130, 304-311.
Clarke G, O'Mahony S, Malone G, Dinan TG (2007)An isocratic high performance liquid chromatography method for the determination of GABA and glutamate in discrete regions of the rodent brain. J Neurosci Methods 2007 Mar 15;160(2):223-30.
O'Brien, Scully P, Fitzgerald P, Scott LV, Dinan TG (2007) Plasma cytokine profiles in depressed patients who fail to respond to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor therapy. J Psychiatr Res. 41(3-4):326-31.
O'Brien S, Scott LV, Dinan TG (2006) Antidepressant therapy and C-reactive protein levels. British Journal of Psychiatry 188, 449-452.
Fitzgerald D, O'Brien S, Scott LV, Dinan TG (2006) Cutaneous glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity and pro-inflammatory cytokine levels in antidepressant resistant depression. Psychological Medicine 36, 37-44.
Dinan TG, Scott LV (2005) Anatomy of melancholia: focus on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis overactivation and the role of vasopressin. Journal of Anatomy 207, 259-64.