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Dr Richard Drake 

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Senior Lecturer

Academically based:
Jean McFarlane Buidling
University Place.

Clinically based:
North Manchester General Hospital

 

Role

Senior Lecturer in Adult Psychiatry.
Course director of the Psychiatry M.Sc.

 

Research

Richard Drake’s research centres on the early stages of schizophrenia and related psychoses and the neuropsychological difficulties they can cause. This includes studies of cognitive remediation, a way of using computer software to let people practice tasks that aim to improve their concentration, memory, attention, planning and so on. He is running a randomised controlled trial using cognitive remediation to see if it can increase the benefit psychosis sufferers get from cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy. With Dr. Nusrat Husain he is studying adapting these therapies to take account of South Asian cultures.
He is also involved in studies of “implementation intentions” (an automatic way of planning ahead). These may be a way to improve negative symptoms (like low motivation, a tendency to isolate oneself or not look forward to things). He is interested in insight and the role of mental skills like “metacognition” (as measured by the ability to step back and consider how to improve performance of tasks). He is involved in the PsyGrid study led by Professor Lewis, using integrated electronic databases to record symptoms and social function in first episodes of psychosis.

 

Biography

Richard Drake trained in Manchester and the Northwest of England. He became a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1996 and won the Laughlin prize and Gaskell Medal. He started his research career working on the SOCRATES trial of cognitive-behavioural therapy in early psychosis. He became a Senior Lecturer at the end of 2002 and completed his Ph.D. part-time in 2004. He is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Manchester Mental Health & Social Care NHS Trust, working at the Community Rehabilitation Service in North Manchester.

 

Qualifications

  • B.Sc. in Physiology (1990)
  • M.B.,Ch.B. (1992)
  • M.R.C.Psych. (1996)
  • Ph.D. (2004)
 

Publications

2011

  • Palmier-Claus J., Dunn G., Drake R., Lewis S. (2011). The negative and positive self: a longitudinal study examining self-esteem, paranoia and negative symptoms in individuals with first-episode psychosis. Early intervention in psychiatry, 5(2), 150-155. eScholarID:151346 | DOI:10.1111/j.1751-7893.2010.00250.x

2010

  • Hayhurst, K., Drake, R. & Lewis, S (2010). Patient factors associated with receipt of combination antipsychotic drug therapy in the treatment of schizophrenia. J Psychopharmacol, 24(1), 83-9. eScholarID:113569 | PMID:18719041 | DOI:10.1177/0269881108095169

2008

  • Stewart S, Corcoran R, Drake R. (2008). Alignment and theory of mind in schizophrenia. Cogn Neuropsychiatry, 13( 5), 431-48. eScholarID:1d32414 | DOI:10.1080/13546800802405610

2007

  • Drake R, Dunn G, Tarrier N, Bentall RP, Haddock G, Lewis SW. (2007). Insight as a predictor of the outcome of first-episode nonaffective psychosis in a prospective cohort study in England. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 68 (1), eScholarID:1d13808
  • Drake R, Haddock G, Tarrier N, Bentall R, Lewis S. (2007). The Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales (PSYRATS): Their usefulness and properties in first episode psychosis. Schizophr Res, 89( 1-3), 119-22. eScholarID:1d14530
  • Tarrier N, Gooding PA, Gregg L, Johnson J, Drake R. (2007). Suicide schema in schizophrenia: the effect of emotional reactivity, negative symptoms and schema elaboration. Behav Res Ther, 45( 9), eScholarID:1d17934 | DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2007.03.007

2006

  • Tarrier N, Haddock G, Lewis SW, Drake R, Gregg L. (2006). Suicide behaviour over 18 months in recent onset schizophrenic patients: the effects of CBT. Schizophr Res, 83( 1), 15-27. eScholarID:1d13777 | DOI:10.1016/j.schres.2005.12.846

2005

  • Lewis SW, Tarrier N, Tarrier N, Drake R. (2005). Integrating non-drug treatments in early schizophrenia. British Journal Of Psychiatry, 48 Supplement, s65-s71. eScholarID:1d26862

2004

  • Drake R, Pickles A, Bentall RP, Kinderman P, Haddock G, Tarrier N, Lewis SW. (2004). The evolution of insight, paranoia and depression during early schizophrenia. Psychol Med, 34( 2), 285-92. eScholarID:1d9318 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291703008821

2003

  • Drake R, Haley C J, Dunn G, Tarrier N, Haddock G, Lewis SW. (2003). The evolution of symptoms during the early course of non-affective psychosis. Schizophr Res, 63 (1-2), 171-9. eScholarID:1d7494 | DOI:10.1016/S0920-9964(02)00334-1 
  • Drake R, Lewis SW. (2003). Insight and neurocognition in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 62(1-2), 165-173. eScholarID:1d25407 | DOI:10.1016/S0920-9964(02)00382-1
  • Haley CJ, Drake R, Benatall RP, Lewis SW. (2003). Health beliefs link to duration of untreated psychosis and attitudes to late treatment in early psychosis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 38(6), 311-316. eScholarID:1d25406

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