![Liz Forty BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, C Psychol, PFHEA](https://profiles-cardiff.imgix.net/attachments/2429?w=200&h=200&auto=format&crop=faces&fit=crop&q=90")
Dr Liz Forty
(hi/ei)
BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, C Psychol, PFHEA
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Timau a rolau for Liz Forty
Cyfarwyddwr Fy Uned Datblygu Dysgu Meddygol; Darllenydd mewn Addysg Feddygol
Trosolwyg
Rwy'n Gyfarwyddwr fy Uned Datblygu Dysgu Meddygon ac yn Arweinydd ar Gymorth i Fyfyrwyr ac Iechyd a Lles Myfyrwyr yn yr Ysgol Feddygaeth.
https://intranet.cardiff.ac.uk/students/health-and-wellbeing/support-for-medicine-students
Rwy'n Seicolegydd Siartredig, yn Brif Gymrawd Advance HE, yn aelod o'r Grŵp Lles MSC, ac yn ymddiriedolwr Cymdeithas Athrawon Prifysgol mewn Seiciatreg (AUTP).
Rwy'n addysgwr, ymchwilydd, goruchwyliwr, arholwr mewnol ac allanol.
Cwblheais fy PhD mewn Meddygaeth Seicolegol ac MSc mewn Addysg Feddygol.
Cyhoeddiad
2025
- Koromina, M. et al. 2025. Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes. Nature Neuroscience 28(7), pp. 1393-1403. (10.1038/s41593-025-01998-z)
- O'Brian, J. and Forty, E. 2025. Medical students’ experiences of gender discrimination and sexual harassment at a UK medical school. The British Student Doctor Journal 8(1) (10.18573/bsdj.379)
- O'Connell, K. S. et al. 2025. Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder. Nature 639, pp. 968-975. (10.1038/s41586-024-08468-9)
- Marshall, E. et al. 2025. Nurture-U student mental health longitudinal survey: a study protocol. BMJ Open 15(2), article number: e098413. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098413)
2024
- Long, R., Forty, L. and Field, J. 2024. Resilience in oral health professional education: a scoping review. European Journal of Dental Education 28(4), pp. 978-994. (10.1111/eje.13034)
- Koromina, M. et al. 2024. Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes. [Online]. medRxiv: OpenRxiv. (10.1101/2024.02.12.24302716) Available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.12.24302716
- Forty, L. 2024. Suicide and self-harm prevention: Learning for undergraduate, pre-registration and pre-qualifying health and social care students in Wales. - teaching_resource
- Hatch, S., Fitzgibbon, J., Tonks, A. J. and Forty, L. 2024. Diversity in patient and public involvement in healthcare research and education—Realising the potential. Health Expectations 27(1), article number: e13896. (10.1111/hex.13896)
- Dave, U., Grant, A., Forty, L., Horn, C. and Hunt, S. 2024. Initiatives to support medical students' mental health in Wales. In: Molodynski, A., Farrell, S. M. and Bhugra, D. eds. The Mental Health of Medical Students: Supporting Wellbeing in Medical Education. Oxford University Press
2023
- Silver, C., Williams, S. and Forty, L. 2023. Cultural competency and mental health training for medical students: Learning from refugees and asylum seekers. Health Education Journal 82(6), pp. 708-721. (10.1177/00178969231182104)
- Charman, O., Hassoulas, A. and Forty, E. 2023. Medical students observing a primary care consultation: does student gender affect patient consent?. Education for Primary Care 34(1), pp. 40-43. (10.1080/14739879.2022.2161073)
2021
- Allen, J. et al. 2021. Submission to Welsh Government Consultation regarding an Anti Racist Wales. Documentation. Cardiff: Welsh Government. Available at: https://cf.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/MEDICStudentRaceEqualityTaskGroup/EeCAc5vENyJMrz6KQUbzjaABhYNt-lHjociOqHA7b3GHmw?e=ESRuG1
- Mullins, N. et al. 2021. Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology. Nature Genetics 53, pp. 817-829. (10.1038/s41588-021-00857-4)
- Forty, L. 2021. How early childhood events impact upon adults health. In: Short, E. ed. A Prescription for Healthy Living: A Guide to Lifestyle Medicine.. Elsevier, pp. 17-29., (10.1016/B978-0-12-821573-9.00002-3)
2020
- Soda, T. et al. 2020. International consortium on the genetics of electroconvulsive therapy and severe depressive disorders (Gen-ECT-ic). European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 270, pp. 921-932. (10.1007/s00406-019-01087-w)
- Akingbuwa, W. A. et al. 2020. Genetic associations between childhood psychopathology and adult depression and associated traits in 42 998 individuals. JAMA Psychiatry 77(7), pp. 715-728. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0527)
- Lewis, K. J. et al. 2020. Comparison of genetic liability for sleep traits among individuals with Bipolar Disorder I or II and control participants. JAMA Psychiatry 77(3), pp. 303-310. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.4079)
- Gordon-Smith, K. et al. 2020. Symptom profile of postpartum and non-postpartum manic episodes in bipolar I disorder: a within-subjects study. Psychiatry Research 284, article number: 112748. (10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112748)
2019
- Lee, P. H. et al. 2019. Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders. Cell 179(7), pp. 1469-1482.e11. (10.1016/j.cell.2019.11.020)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2019. Stratification of the risk of bipolar disorder recurrences in pregnancy and postpartum. British Journal of Psychiatry 213(3), pp. 542-547. (10.1192/bjp.2018.92)
- Romagnoni, A. et al. 2019. Comparative performances of machine learning methods for classifying Crohn Disease patients using genome-wide genotyping data. Scientific Reports 9(1), pp. -., article number: 10351. (10.1038/s41598-019-46649-z)
- Charney, A. W. et al. 2019. Contribution of rare copy number variants to bipolar disorder risk Is limited to schizoaffective cases. Biological Psychiatry 86(2), pp. 110-119. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.12.009)
- Stahl, E. A. et al. 2019. Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder. Nature Genetics 51, pp. 793-803. (10.1038/s41588-019-0397-8)
2018
- Ellis, N. C., Quraishy, M., Hoskins, M., Walters, J., Riley, S. and Forty, L. 2018. Medical student attitudes to mental health and psychiatry: the use of a patient-experience short film. The British Student Doctor Journal 2(1), pp. 3-10. (10.18573/bsdj.37)
- Allardyce, J. et al. 2018. Association between schizophrenia-related polygenic liability and the occurrence and level of mood-incongruent psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder. JAMA Psychiatry 75(1), pp. 28-35. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.3485)
- Lewis, K. et al. 2018. Mania triggered by sleep loss and risk of postpartum psychosis in women with bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 225, pp. 624-629. (10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.054)
2017
- Green, E. K. et al. 2017. Genome-wide significant locus for Research Diagnostic Criteria Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar type. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 174(8), pp. 767-771. (10.1002/ajmg.b.32572)
- Lewis, K., Gordon-Smith, K., Forty, L., Di Florio, A., Craddock, N., Jones, L. and Jones, I. 2017. Sleep loss as a trigger of mood episodes in bipolar disorder: individual differences based on diagnostic subtype and gender. British Journal of Psychiatry 211(3), pp. 169-174. (10.1192/bjp.bp.117.202259)
- Leonenko, G. et al. 2017. Investigation of relationships between bipolar disorder phenotypes and genome-wide significant loci from PGC2 schizophrenia. European Neuropsychopharmacology 27(S3), pp. S383-S384. (10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.09.416)
- Witt, S. H. et al. 2017. Genome-wide association study of borderline personality disorder reveals genetic overlap with the bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression. Translational Psychiatry 7, article number: e1155.
- Hassoulas, A., Forty, E., Hoskins, M., Walters, J. and Riley, S. 2017. A case-based medical curriculum for the 21st century: The use of innovative approaches in designing and developing a case on mental health. Medical Teacher 39(5), pp. 505-511. (10.1080/0142159X.2017.1296564)
- Abu-Akel, A. et al. 2017. Autistic and schizotypal traits and global functioning in bipolar I disorder. Journal of affective disorders 207, pp. 268-275. (10.1016/j.jad.2016.09.059)
2016
- Perry, A., Gordon-Smith, K., Di Florio, A., Forty, E., Craddock, N. J., Jones, L. and Jones, I. R. 2016. Adverse childhood life events and postpartum psychosis in bipolar disorder. Journal of affective disorders 205, pp. 69-72. (10.1016/j.jad.2016.06.061)
- Song, J. et al. 2016. Genome-wide association study identifies SESTD1 as a novel risk gene for lithium-responsive bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 2016, pp. 1290-1297. (10.1038/mp.2015.165)
- Marwaha, S. et al. 2016. Affective instability, childhood trauma and major affective disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders 190, pp. 764-771. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.11.024)
2015
- Knott, S., Forty, E., Craddock, N. J. and Thomas, R. H. 2015. Epilepsy and bipolar disorder. Epilepsy & Behavior 52, pp. 267-274. (10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.07.003)
- Singh, S. et al. 2015. Affective temperaments and concomitant alcohol use disorders in bipolar disorder. Journal of affective disorders 186, pp. 226-231. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.07.027)
- Di Florio, A., Morgan, H., Jones, L., Forty, E., Gordon-Smith, K., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2015. Smoking and postpartum psychosis. Bipolar Disorders 17(5), pp. 572-573. (10.1111/bdi.12314)
- Forty, E. and Craddock, N. J. 2015. Authors' reply. British Journal of Psychiatry 206(6), pp. 523-523. (10.1192/bjp.206.6.523)
- Gordon-Smith, K. et al. 2015. Rapid cycling as a feature of bipolar disorder and comorbid migraine. Journal of Affective Disorders 175, pp. 320. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.01.024)
- Castro, V. M. et al. 2015. Validation of electronic health record phenotyping of bipolar disorder cases and controls. American Journal of Psychiatry 172(4), pp. 363-372. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14030423)
- Upthegrove, R. et al. 2015. Adverse childhood events and psychosis in bipolar affective disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry 206(3), pp. 191-197. (10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152611)
- Di Florio, A., Jones, L., Forty, E., Gordon-Smith, K., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2015. Bipolar disorder, miscarriage, and termination. Bipolar Disorders 17(1), pp. 102-105. (10.1111/bdi.12217)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2015. Copy number variation in bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 21(1), pp. 89-93. (10.1038/mp.2014.174)
2014
- Forty, E. et al. 2014. Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry 205(6), pp. 465-472. (10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152249)
- Di Florio, A., Jones, L., Forty, E., Gordon-Smith, K., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2014. Postpartum bipolar depression in a clinical sample of 1721 parous women with mood disorders [Conference Abstract]. Bipolar Disorders 16(S1), pp. 62-62. (10.1111/bdi.12188)
- Court, H. et al. 2014. Improving the psychometric utility of the hypomania checklist (HCL-32): A Rasch analysis approach. Journal of affective disorders 152-15, pp. 448-53. (10.1016/j.jad.2013.10.014)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2014. Mood disorders and parity - A clue to the aetiology of the postpartum trigger. Journal of affective disorders 152-15, pp. 334-339. (10.1016/j.jad.2013.09.034)
2013
- Green, E. K. et al. 2013. Replication of bipolar disorder susceptibility alleles and identification of two novel genome-wide significant associations in a new bipolar disorder case-control sample. Molecular Psychiatry 18(12), pp. 1302-1307. (10.1038/mp.2012.142)
- Hamshere, M. L. et al. 2013. Genome-wide significant associations in schizophrenia to ITIH3/4, CACNA1C and SDCCAG8, and extensive replication of associations reported by the Schizophrenia PGC. Molecular Psychiatry 18(6), pp. 708-712. (10.1038/mp.2012.67)
- Kronenberg, F. et al. 2013. Novel Loci Associated with Increased Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Context of Coronary Artery Disease [Article]. PLoS ONE 8(4), pp. e59905. (10.1371/journal.pone.0059905)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2013. Perinatal episodes across the mood disorder spectrum. JAMA Psychiatry 70(2), pp. 168-175. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.279)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2013. Association at SYNE1 in both bipolar disorder and recurrent major depression. Molecular Psychiatry 18, pp. 614-617. (10.1038/mp.2012.48)
2012
- Cooper, J. D. et al. 2012. Seven newly identified loci for autoimmune thyroid disease. Human Molecular Genetics 21(23), pp. 5202-5208. (10.1093/hmg/dds357)
- Jostins, L. et al. 2012. Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 491(7422), pp. 119-124. (10.1038/nature11582)
- Thomas, R. H., Forty, E., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2012. MP 1 Epilepsy in adults with bipolar disorder [Conference Abstract]. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 83(10), pp. e1-e1. (10.1136/jnnp-2012-303538.5)
2011
- Green, E. K. et al. 2011. DISC1 exon 11 rare variants found more commonly in schizoaffective spectrum cases than controls. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 156B(4), pp. 490-492. (10.1002/ajmg.b.31187)
2010
- Green, E. K. et al. 2010. The bipolar disorder risk allele at CACNA1C also confers risk of recurrent major depression and of schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 15(10), pp. 1016-1022. (10.1038/mp.2009.49)
- Craddock, N. J. et al. 2010. Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 464(7289), pp. 713-720. (10.1038/nature08979)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2010. Affective temperaments across the bipolar-unipolar spectrum: examination of the TEMPS-A in 927 patients and controls. Journal of affective disorders 123(1-3), pp. 42-51. (10.1016/j.jad.2009.09.020)
- Forty, E. et al. 2010. Reducing the hypomania checklist (HCL-32) to a 16-item version. Journal of affective disorders 124(3), pp. 351-356. (10.1016/j.jad.2010.01.004)
- Jones, L. et al. 2010. Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to postnatal depression. British Journal of Psychiatry 196(3), pp. 200-205. (10.1192/bjp.bp.109.064683)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2010. Variation at the GABAA receptor gene, Rho 1 (GABRR1) associated with susceptibility to bipolar schizoaffective disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 153B(7), pp. 1347-1349. (10.1002/ajmg.b.31108)
2009
- Smith, D. J. et al. 2009. Sub-threshold manic symptoms in recurrent major depressive disorder are a marker for poor outcome. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 119(4), pp. 325-329. (10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01324.x)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Clinical characteristics of unipolar disorder and bipolar disorder according to the lifetime presence of recurrent panic attacks. Bipolar Disorders 11(3), pp. 307-315. (10.1111/j.1399-5618.2009.00676.x)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Polarity at illness onset in bipolar I disorder and clinical course of illness. Bipolar Disorders 11(1), pp. 82-88. (10.1111/j.1399-5618.2008.00654.x)
- Forty, L. 2009. Phenotypic dissection of mood disorder. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
- Hamshere, M. L. et al. 2009. Age-at-onset in bipolar-I disorder: mixture analysis of 1369 cases identifies three distinct clinical sub-groups. Journal of affective disorders 116(1-2), pp. 23-29. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.10.021)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Identifying hypomanic features in major depressive disorder using the hypomania checklist (HCL-32). Journal of Affective Disorders 114(1-3), pp. 68-73. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.07.017)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Is depression severity the sole cause of psychotic symptoms during an episode of unipolar major depression? A study both between and within subjects. Journal of Affective Disorders 114(1-3), pp. 103-109. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.06.012)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2009. P2RX7: A bipolar and unipolar disorder candidate susceptibility gene?. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 150B(8), pp. 1063-1069. (10.1002/ajmg.b.30931)
2008
- Forty, E. et al. 2008. Re: Symptoms do not helpfully distinguish unipolar and bipolar depression [eLetter]. The British Journal of Psychiatry (10.1192/bjp.bp.107.045294)
- Forty, E. et al. 2008. Clinical differences between bipolar and unipolar depression. The British Journal of Psychiatry 192(5), pp. 388-389. (10.1192/bjp.bp.107.045294)
- Forty, E. et al. 2008. Authors' reply [Letter]. British Journal of Psychiatry 193(5), pp. 426-427. (10.1192/bjp.193.5.427)
- Forty, L., Zammit, S. and Craddock, N. 2008. Genetic risk and familial transmission of depression. In: Dobson, K. S. and Dozois, D. J. eds. Risk Factors for Depression. Elsevier, pp. 19-35., (10.1016/B978-0-08-045078-0.00002-2)
- Smith, D. J. et al. 2008. Differences in depressive symptom profile between males and females. Journal of Affective Disorders 108(3), pp. 279-284. (10.1016/j.jad.2007.10.001)
2006
- Craddock, N. J. and Forty, E. 2006. Genetics of affective (mood) disorders. European Journal of Human Genetics 14(6), pp. 660-668. (10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201549)
- Forty, E. et al. 2006. Familiality of postpartum depression in unipolar disorder: results of a family study. American Journal of Psychiatry 163(9), pp. 1549-1553. (10.1176/appi.ajp.163.9.1549)
Articles
- Koromina, M. et al. 2025. Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes. Nature Neuroscience 28(7), pp. 1393-1403. (10.1038/s41593-025-01998-z)
- O'Brian, J. and Forty, E. 2025. Medical students’ experiences of gender discrimination and sexual harassment at a UK medical school. The British Student Doctor Journal 8(1) (10.18573/bsdj.379)
- O'Connell, K. S. et al. 2025. Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder. Nature 639, pp. 968-975. (10.1038/s41586-024-08468-9)
- Marshall, E. et al. 2025. Nurture-U student mental health longitudinal survey: a study protocol. BMJ Open 15(2), article number: e098413. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098413)
- Long, R., Forty, L. and Field, J. 2024. Resilience in oral health professional education: a scoping review. European Journal of Dental Education 28(4), pp. 978-994. (10.1111/eje.13034)
- Hatch, S., Fitzgibbon, J., Tonks, A. J. and Forty, L. 2024. Diversity in patient and public involvement in healthcare research and education—Realising the potential. Health Expectations 27(1), article number: e13896. (10.1111/hex.13896)
- Silver, C., Williams, S. and Forty, L. 2023. Cultural competency and mental health training for medical students: Learning from refugees and asylum seekers. Health Education Journal 82(6), pp. 708-721. (10.1177/00178969231182104)
- Charman, O., Hassoulas, A. and Forty, E. 2023. Medical students observing a primary care consultation: does student gender affect patient consent?. Education for Primary Care 34(1), pp. 40-43. (10.1080/14739879.2022.2161073)
- Mullins, N. et al. 2021. Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology. Nature Genetics 53, pp. 817-829. (10.1038/s41588-021-00857-4)
- Soda, T. et al. 2020. International consortium on the genetics of electroconvulsive therapy and severe depressive disorders (Gen-ECT-ic). European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 270, pp. 921-932. (10.1007/s00406-019-01087-w)
- Akingbuwa, W. A. et al. 2020. Genetic associations between childhood psychopathology and adult depression and associated traits in 42 998 individuals. JAMA Psychiatry 77(7), pp. 715-728. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0527)
- Lewis, K. J. et al. 2020. Comparison of genetic liability for sleep traits among individuals with Bipolar Disorder I or II and control participants. JAMA Psychiatry 77(3), pp. 303-310. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.4079)
- Gordon-Smith, K. et al. 2020. Symptom profile of postpartum and non-postpartum manic episodes in bipolar I disorder: a within-subjects study. Psychiatry Research 284, article number: 112748. (10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112748)
- Lee, P. H. et al. 2019. Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders. Cell 179(7), pp. 1469-1482.e11. (10.1016/j.cell.2019.11.020)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2019. Stratification of the risk of bipolar disorder recurrences in pregnancy and postpartum. British Journal of Psychiatry 213(3), pp. 542-547. (10.1192/bjp.2018.92)
- Romagnoni, A. et al. 2019. Comparative performances of machine learning methods for classifying Crohn Disease patients using genome-wide genotyping data. Scientific Reports 9(1), pp. -., article number: 10351. (10.1038/s41598-019-46649-z)
- Charney, A. W. et al. 2019. Contribution of rare copy number variants to bipolar disorder risk Is limited to schizoaffective cases. Biological Psychiatry 86(2), pp. 110-119. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.12.009)
- Stahl, E. A. et al. 2019. Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder. Nature Genetics 51, pp. 793-803. (10.1038/s41588-019-0397-8)
- Ellis, N. C., Quraishy, M., Hoskins, M., Walters, J., Riley, S. and Forty, L. 2018. Medical student attitudes to mental health and psychiatry: the use of a patient-experience short film. The British Student Doctor Journal 2(1), pp. 3-10. (10.18573/bsdj.37)
- Allardyce, J. et al. 2018. Association between schizophrenia-related polygenic liability and the occurrence and level of mood-incongruent psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder. JAMA Psychiatry 75(1), pp. 28-35. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.3485)
- Lewis, K. et al. 2018. Mania triggered by sleep loss and risk of postpartum psychosis in women with bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 225, pp. 624-629. (10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.054)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2017. Genome-wide significant locus for Research Diagnostic Criteria Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar type. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 174(8), pp. 767-771. (10.1002/ajmg.b.32572)
- Lewis, K., Gordon-Smith, K., Forty, L., Di Florio, A., Craddock, N., Jones, L. and Jones, I. 2017. Sleep loss as a trigger of mood episodes in bipolar disorder: individual differences based on diagnostic subtype and gender. British Journal of Psychiatry 211(3), pp. 169-174. (10.1192/bjp.bp.117.202259)
- Leonenko, G. et al. 2017. Investigation of relationships between bipolar disorder phenotypes and genome-wide significant loci from PGC2 schizophrenia. European Neuropsychopharmacology 27(S3), pp. S383-S384. (10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.09.416)
- Witt, S. H. et al. 2017. Genome-wide association study of borderline personality disorder reveals genetic overlap with the bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression. Translational Psychiatry 7, article number: e1155.
- Hassoulas, A., Forty, E., Hoskins, M., Walters, J. and Riley, S. 2017. A case-based medical curriculum for the 21st century: The use of innovative approaches in designing and developing a case on mental health. Medical Teacher 39(5), pp. 505-511. (10.1080/0142159X.2017.1296564)
- Abu-Akel, A. et al. 2017. Autistic and schizotypal traits and global functioning in bipolar I disorder. Journal of affective disorders 207, pp. 268-275. (10.1016/j.jad.2016.09.059)
- Perry, A., Gordon-Smith, K., Di Florio, A., Forty, E., Craddock, N. J., Jones, L. and Jones, I. R. 2016. Adverse childhood life events and postpartum psychosis in bipolar disorder. Journal of affective disorders 205, pp. 69-72. (10.1016/j.jad.2016.06.061)
- Song, J. et al. 2016. Genome-wide association study identifies SESTD1 as a novel risk gene for lithium-responsive bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 2016, pp. 1290-1297. (10.1038/mp.2015.165)
- Marwaha, S. et al. 2016. Affective instability, childhood trauma and major affective disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders 190, pp. 764-771. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.11.024)
- Knott, S., Forty, E., Craddock, N. J. and Thomas, R. H. 2015. Epilepsy and bipolar disorder. Epilepsy & Behavior 52, pp. 267-274. (10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.07.003)
- Singh, S. et al. 2015. Affective temperaments and concomitant alcohol use disorders in bipolar disorder. Journal of affective disorders 186, pp. 226-231. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.07.027)
- Di Florio, A., Morgan, H., Jones, L., Forty, E., Gordon-Smith, K., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2015. Smoking and postpartum psychosis. Bipolar Disorders 17(5), pp. 572-573. (10.1111/bdi.12314)
- Forty, E. and Craddock, N. J. 2015. Authors' reply. British Journal of Psychiatry 206(6), pp. 523-523. (10.1192/bjp.206.6.523)
- Gordon-Smith, K. et al. 2015. Rapid cycling as a feature of bipolar disorder and comorbid migraine. Journal of Affective Disorders 175, pp. 320. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.01.024)
- Castro, V. M. et al. 2015. Validation of electronic health record phenotyping of bipolar disorder cases and controls. American Journal of Psychiatry 172(4), pp. 363-372. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14030423)
- Upthegrove, R. et al. 2015. Adverse childhood events and psychosis in bipolar affective disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry 206(3), pp. 191-197. (10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152611)
- Di Florio, A., Jones, L., Forty, E., Gordon-Smith, K., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2015. Bipolar disorder, miscarriage, and termination. Bipolar Disorders 17(1), pp. 102-105. (10.1111/bdi.12217)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2015. Copy number variation in bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 21(1), pp. 89-93. (10.1038/mp.2014.174)
- Forty, E. et al. 2014. Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry 205(6), pp. 465-472. (10.1192/bjp.bp.114.152249)
- Di Florio, A., Jones, L., Forty, E., Gordon-Smith, K., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2014. Postpartum bipolar depression in a clinical sample of 1721 parous women with mood disorders [Conference Abstract]. Bipolar Disorders 16(S1), pp. 62-62. (10.1111/bdi.12188)
- Court, H. et al. 2014. Improving the psychometric utility of the hypomania checklist (HCL-32): A Rasch analysis approach. Journal of affective disorders 152-15, pp. 448-53. (10.1016/j.jad.2013.10.014)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2014. Mood disorders and parity - A clue to the aetiology of the postpartum trigger. Journal of affective disorders 152-15, pp. 334-339. (10.1016/j.jad.2013.09.034)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2013. Replication of bipolar disorder susceptibility alleles and identification of two novel genome-wide significant associations in a new bipolar disorder case-control sample. Molecular Psychiatry 18(12), pp. 1302-1307. (10.1038/mp.2012.142)
- Hamshere, M. L. et al. 2013. Genome-wide significant associations in schizophrenia to ITIH3/4, CACNA1C and SDCCAG8, and extensive replication of associations reported by the Schizophrenia PGC. Molecular Psychiatry 18(6), pp. 708-712. (10.1038/mp.2012.67)
- Kronenberg, F. et al. 2013. Novel Loci Associated with Increased Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in the Context of Coronary Artery Disease [Article]. PLoS ONE 8(4), pp. e59905. (10.1371/journal.pone.0059905)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2013. Perinatal episodes across the mood disorder spectrum. JAMA Psychiatry 70(2), pp. 168-175. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.279)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2013. Association at SYNE1 in both bipolar disorder and recurrent major depression. Molecular Psychiatry 18, pp. 614-617. (10.1038/mp.2012.48)
- Cooper, J. D. et al. 2012. Seven newly identified loci for autoimmune thyroid disease. Human Molecular Genetics 21(23), pp. 5202-5208. (10.1093/hmg/dds357)
- Jostins, L. et al. 2012. Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 491(7422), pp. 119-124. (10.1038/nature11582)
- Thomas, R. H., Forty, E., Craddock, N. J. and Jones, I. R. 2012. MP 1 Epilepsy in adults with bipolar disorder [Conference Abstract]. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 83(10), pp. e1-e1. (10.1136/jnnp-2012-303538.5)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2011. DISC1 exon 11 rare variants found more commonly in schizoaffective spectrum cases than controls. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 156B(4), pp. 490-492. (10.1002/ajmg.b.31187)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2010. The bipolar disorder risk allele at CACNA1C also confers risk of recurrent major depression and of schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 15(10), pp. 1016-1022. (10.1038/mp.2009.49)
- Craddock, N. J. et al. 2010. Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 464(7289), pp. 713-720. (10.1038/nature08979)
- Di Florio, A. et al. 2010. Affective temperaments across the bipolar-unipolar spectrum: examination of the TEMPS-A in 927 patients and controls. Journal of affective disorders 123(1-3), pp. 42-51. (10.1016/j.jad.2009.09.020)
- Forty, E. et al. 2010. Reducing the hypomania checklist (HCL-32) to a 16-item version. Journal of affective disorders 124(3), pp. 351-356. (10.1016/j.jad.2010.01.004)
- Jones, L. et al. 2010. Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to postnatal depression. British Journal of Psychiatry 196(3), pp. 200-205. (10.1192/bjp.bp.109.064683)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2010. Variation at the GABAA receptor gene, Rho 1 (GABRR1) associated with susceptibility to bipolar schizoaffective disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 153B(7), pp. 1347-1349. (10.1002/ajmg.b.31108)
- Smith, D. J. et al. 2009. Sub-threshold manic symptoms in recurrent major depressive disorder are a marker for poor outcome. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 119(4), pp. 325-329. (10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01324.x)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Clinical characteristics of unipolar disorder and bipolar disorder according to the lifetime presence of recurrent panic attacks. Bipolar Disorders 11(3), pp. 307-315. (10.1111/j.1399-5618.2009.00676.x)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Polarity at illness onset in bipolar I disorder and clinical course of illness. Bipolar Disorders 11(1), pp. 82-88. (10.1111/j.1399-5618.2008.00654.x)
- Hamshere, M. L. et al. 2009. Age-at-onset in bipolar-I disorder: mixture analysis of 1369 cases identifies three distinct clinical sub-groups. Journal of affective disorders 116(1-2), pp. 23-29. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.10.021)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Identifying hypomanic features in major depressive disorder using the hypomania checklist (HCL-32). Journal of Affective Disorders 114(1-3), pp. 68-73. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.07.017)
- Forty, E. et al. 2009. Is depression severity the sole cause of psychotic symptoms during an episode of unipolar major depression? A study both between and within subjects. Journal of Affective Disorders 114(1-3), pp. 103-109. (10.1016/j.jad.2008.06.012)
- Green, E. K. et al. 2009. P2RX7: A bipolar and unipolar disorder candidate susceptibility gene?. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 150B(8), pp. 1063-1069. (10.1002/ajmg.b.30931)
- Forty, E. et al. 2008. Re: Symptoms do not helpfully distinguish unipolar and bipolar depression [eLetter]. The British Journal of Psychiatry (10.1192/bjp.bp.107.045294)
- Forty, E. et al. 2008. Clinical differences between bipolar and unipolar depression. The British Journal of Psychiatry 192(5), pp. 388-389. (10.1192/bjp.bp.107.045294)
- Forty, E. et al. 2008. Authors' reply [Letter]. British Journal of Psychiatry 193(5), pp. 426-427. (10.1192/bjp.193.5.427)
- Smith, D. J. et al. 2008. Differences in depressive symptom profile between males and females. Journal of Affective Disorders 108(3), pp. 279-284. (10.1016/j.jad.2007.10.001)
- Craddock, N. J. and Forty, E. 2006. Genetics of affective (mood) disorders. European Journal of Human Genetics 14(6), pp. 660-668. (10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201549)
- Forty, E. et al. 2006. Familiality of postpartum depression in unipolar disorder: results of a family study. American Journal of Psychiatry 163(9), pp. 1549-1553. (10.1176/appi.ajp.163.9.1549)
Book sections
- Dave, U., Grant, A., Forty, L., Horn, C. and Hunt, S. 2024. Initiatives to support medical students' mental health in Wales. In: Molodynski, A., Farrell, S. M. and Bhugra, D. eds. The Mental Health of Medical Students: Supporting Wellbeing in Medical Education. Oxford University Press
- Forty, L. 2021. How early childhood events impact upon adults health. In: Short, E. ed. A Prescription for Healthy Living: A Guide to Lifestyle Medicine.. Elsevier, pp. 17-29., (10.1016/B978-0-12-821573-9.00002-3)
- Forty, L., Zammit, S. and Craddock, N. 2008. Genetic risk and familial transmission of depression. In: Dobson, K. S. and Dozois, D. J. eds. Risk Factors for Depression. Elsevier, pp. 19-35., (10.1016/B978-0-08-045078-0.00002-2)
Monographs
- Allen, J. et al. 2021. Submission to Welsh Government Consultation regarding an Anti Racist Wales. Documentation. Cardiff: Welsh Government. Available at: https://cf.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/MEDICStudentRaceEqualityTaskGroup/EeCAc5vENyJMrz6KQUbzjaABhYNt-lHjociOqHA7b3GHmw?e=ESRuG1
Thesis
- Forty, L. 2009. Phenotypic dissection of mood disorder. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Websites
- Koromina, M. et al. 2024. Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes. [Online]. medRxiv: OpenRxiv. (10.1101/2024.02.12.24302716) Available at: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.12.24302716
teaching_resource
- Forty, L. 2024. Suicide and self-harm prevention: Learning for undergraduate, pre-registration and pre-qualifying health and social care students in Wales. - teaching_resource
Ymchwil
Mae fy ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar iechyd meddwl a lles myfyrwyr, gyda ffocws penodol ar fyfyrwyr yn y proffesiynau gofal iechyd, a chydraddoldeb, amrywiaeth a chynhwysiant.
Rwy'n gyd-ymchwilydd ar gyfer Nurture-U, prosiect ymchwil cenedlaethol sy'n dod o hyd i ffyrdd gwell o gefnogi myfyrwyr prifysgol gyda'u lles a'u hiechyd meddwl. Rydym yn bartner â phrosiect U-Flourish sydd wedi'i leoli ym Mhrifysgol y Frenhines, Canada.
Rwy'n arwain y Garfan Iechyd Meddwl Myfyrwyr fel rhan o Ganolfan Genedlaethol Iechyd Meddwl a ariennir gan Ymchwil Iechyd a Gofal Cymru, canolfan ymchwil a sefydlwyd i ddysgu mwy am achosion problemau iechyd meddwl, gyda'r nod o ddatblygu gwell diagnosis, triniaeth a chefnogaeth ar gyfer y dyfodol.
Rwy'n un o gyd-sylfaenwyr y Rhwydwaith Ymchwil Anhwylder Deubegynol (BDRN), grŵp o ymchwilwyr, clinigwyr a chyfranogwyr ymchwil yn y DU sy'n ymwneud ag ymchwilio i achosion sylfaenol anhwylder deubegynol. Gyda dros 7500 o gyfranogwyr, rydym wedi casglu'r garfan fwyaf o bobl ag anhwylder deubegynol yn y byd, a thrwy gydweithrediadau rhyngwladol, wedi gwneud cyfraniadau pwysig at ddealltwriaeth o'r dueddiad genetig sy'n sail i'r anhwylder.
Addysgu
Cyfarwyddwr Uned Datblygu Dysgu Fy Meddyg
Fel Cyfarwyddwr Cymorth i Fyfyrwyr ac Iechyd a Lles, rwy'n arwain yn strategol ar ddull yr Ysgol Feddygaeth o wella llesiant myfyrwyr, hygyrchedd a chynhwysiant, iechyd meddwl a diogelu.
https://intranet.cardiff.ac.uk/students/health-and-wellbeing/support-for-medicine-students
Rwy'n Swyddog Diogelu Dynodedig ac yn eistedd ar Bwyllgor Diogelu'r Brifysgol.
Rwy'n oruchwyliwr ymchwil ar gyfer myfyrwyr UG a PGT/PGR, yn ogystal ag arholwr mewnol ac allanol.
Bywgraffiad
Cyn fy mhenodi'n Ddarlithydd mewn Meddygaeth Seicolegol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd yn 2013 [dyrchafwyd i fod yn Uwch Ddarlithydd 2018, Darllenydd 2023], gweithiais fel ymchwilydd ôl-ddoethurol yn yr Is-adran Meddygaeth Seicolegol a Niwrowyddorau Clinigol ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Cwblheais MSc mewn Addysg Feddygol yn 2016 a chwblhais fy PhD mewn Meddygaeth Seicolegol yng Nghaerdydd yn 2009. Canolbwyntiodd fy nhraethawd ymchwil ar ddadansoddi'r ffenoteip clinigol o anhwylderau affeithiol deubegynol ac unbegynol. Cyn dechrau fy astudiaethau PhD yng Nghaerdydd, gweithiais fel ymchwilydd ym Mhrifysgol Birmingham ar astudiaethau genetig ar raddfa fawr o anhwylderau hwyliau.
Trosolwg o'r Gyrfa
- 2024: Prif Gymrawd Advance AU
- 2023: Darllenydd mewn Addysg Feddygol, Ysgol Feddygaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd
- 2022: Ymddiriedolwr AUTP (Cymdeithas Athrawon Prifysgol mewn Seiciatreg)
- 2022: Ymgynghorydd Elusen Mind Health for Medical Students
- 2021: Aelod Siartredig o Gymdeithas Seicolegol Prydain
- 2019: Uwch Gymrawd yr Academi Addysg Uwch (Uwch Addysg Uwch)
- 2018: Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Meddygaeth Seicolegol, Ysgol Feddygaeth, Prifysgol Caerdydd
- 2016: MSc mewn Addysg Feddygol (Teilyngdod)
- 2016: Aelod o'r Academi Addysg Uwch
- 2015: Aelod o Academi yr Addysgwyr Meddygol
- 2014: Aelod o AUTP (Cymdeithas Athrawon Prifysgol mewn Seiciatreg)
- 2013: Darlithydd mewn Meddygaeth Seicolegol, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Ysgol Feddygaeth.
- 2008-2013: Ymchwilydd Ôl-ddoethurol, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Ysgol Feddygaeth, Is-adran Meddygaeth Seicolegol a Niwrowyddorau Clinigol.
- 2005-2009: Myfyriwr PhD, Prifysgol Caerdydd, Ysgol Medince, Is-adran Meddygaeth Seicolegol a Niwrowyddorau Clinigol.
- 2005: Diploma mewn Dulliau Ymchwil (Rhagoriaeth)
- 2002-2005: Cydymaith Ymchwil, Prifysgol Birmingham, Adran Seiciatreg.
- 2001: BA Seicoleg a Chymdeithaseg (Cyd-Anrh)
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Rownd Derfynol - Gwobrau Cyfoethogi Bywyd Myfyrwyr 2025: Gwasanaeth Cymorth Proffesiynol y Flwyddyn
- Rownd derfynol - Gwobrau Iechyd Meddwl a Lles 2024
- Gwobr Efydd Iechyd Meddwl a Lles Cymru, Effaith Eithriadol mewn Addysg 2023
- Gwobr Seren Medic am gyfraniad at Gydraddoldeb, Amrywiaeth a Chynhwysiant 2019
- Gwobr Arloesi mewn Addysgu BMA/BMJ 2016
- Gwobr Arloesi mewn Addysgu Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd 2015
- Gwobr Ymchwilydd Ifanc NARSAD 2011
- Cymrodoriaeth Ymchwilwyr Ifanc Rhyngwladol Eli Lily mewn Anhwylder Deubegynol 2009
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Prif Gymrawd Advance AU
- Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Ryngwladol Addysg Proffesiynau Gofal Iechyd
- Aelod Grŵp Cyfeirio Arbenigol GIG Cymru - Safonau Dysgu Hunanladdiad ac Atal Hunan-niweidio
- Aelod o'r grŵp 'Siarad yn Ddiogel' AaGIC
- Aelod o Grŵp Arweinwyr Lles MSCs
- Ymddiriedolwr Cymdeithas Athrawon Prifysgol mewn Seiciatreg
- Aelod Fforwm Addysg Israddedig Coleg Brenhinol y Seiciatrygwyr
- Aelod o Weithrediaeth Coleg Brenhinol y Seiciatryddion yng Nghymru
- Uwch Gymrawd yr Academi Addysg Uwch
- Aelod o Academi'r Addysgwyr Meddygol
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I supervise intercalated BSc Medical Education and Psychological Medicine student dissertations, as well as MSc in psychiatry dissertations.
I have supervised two PhD students (Sarah Knott 2017; Bipolar Disorder, Epilepsy and Migraine: Katie Lewis 2018; Bipolar Disorder and Sleep) and an MPhil student (Naomi Marfell 2019; Student mental health and wellbeing) to completion.
I am currently co-supervising PhD student Ruby Long (Resilience in Dental Students).
Ymgysylltu
I work with the National Centre for Mental Health and third sector charities and organisations to support the involvement of people with personal or family experience of mental illness in the development and delivery of the mental health components of the undergraduate medicine programme (MBBCh).
I am also working with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales in relation to recruitment and retention in Psychiatry, and the importance of promoting psychiatry within the undergraduate student population.
I am Director of the Annual Cardiff University Undergraduate Winter School in Psychiatry.
I am one of the trustees of the Association of University Teachers in Psychiatry https://www.autp.org/ and Advisor to Mind Health for Medical Students Charity https://www.mindhealthuk.org/
Contact Details
FortyL@caerdydd.ac.uk
+44 29206 88416
Neuadd Meirionnydd, Llawr 5, Ystafell 519C, Ysbyty Athrofaol Cymru, Parc y Mynydd Bychan, Caerdydd, CF14 4YS
+44 29206 88416
Neuadd Meirionnydd, Llawr 5, Ystafell 519C, Ysbyty Athrofaol Cymru, Parc y Mynydd Bychan, Caerdydd, CF14 4YS