Research Professor (2013-), Professor of Systems Neuroscience (2003), PhD (Institute of Psychiatry 1982). Co-Director of Psychiatric Research Institute of Neuroscience in Glasgow (PsyRING; psyring.co.uk) a collaboration between the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. Since 1997, PsyRING has engaged in major collaborations with Pharmaceutical companies to provide translational solutions for drug discovery and development in Psychiatric disease

Research Interests are focussed on understanding the molecular and neural systems that underpin behaviour in mental health and disease.

Mice haploinsufficient for Map2k7, a gene involved in neurodevelopment and risk for schizophrenia, show impaired attention, a vigilance decrement deficit and unstable cognitive processing in an attentional task : impact of minocyclineOpenshaw R.L., Thomson D.M., Penninger J.M., Pratt J.A., Morris B.J.Psychopharmacology Vol 234, pp. 293-305, (2017)http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4463-y Thalamo-cortical communication, glutamatergic neurotransmission and neural oscillations : a unique window into the origins of ScZ?Pratt Judith, Dawson Neil, Morris Brain J., Grent T'Jong Tineke, Roux Frederic, Uhlhaas Peter J.Schizophrenia Research Vol 180, pp. 4-12, (2017)http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.05.013 Miniature wireless recording and stimulation system for rodent behavioural testingPinnell R C, Dempster J, Pratt JJournal of Neural Engineering Vol 12, (2015)http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/12/6/066015 Altered functional brain network connectivity and glutamate system function in transgenic mice expressing truncated Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1Dawson N, Kurihara M , Thomson DM, Winchester CL, McVie A, Hedde JR, Randall AD, Shen S, Seymour PA, Hughes ZA, Dunlop J , Brown JT, Brandon NJ , Morris BJ, Pratt JATranslational Psychiatry Vol 5, (2015)http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.60 Schizophrenia in the 21st century : new insights and translation into improved therapiesPratt JudithJ Psychopharmacol Vol 29, pp. 83-84, (2015)http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881114566743 Functional brain connectivity phenotypes for schizophrenia drug discoveryDawson Neil, Morris Brian J, Pratt Judith AJ Psychopharmacol Vol 29, pp. 169-177, (2015)http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881114563635