Lawrence Whalley

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Lawrence J. Whalley, MD DPM FRCP(E) FRCPsych is Crombie Ross Professor of Mental Health in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

He is best known for his ground-breaking follow-up studies of about 750 Aberdeen City and Shire residents who took part at age 11 years in the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947.

Whalley's popular science account of the aging brain (Phoenix Press, 2004) was well reviewed and describes some of his research findings on brain structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, nutrition, genetics and physical health and how these explain differences in individual rates of ageing of some mental abilities while others are relatively preserved.

Amongst his interests he lists woodwork and opera