Dr Birgit Vollm
Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in Forensic Psychiatry
- Email: birgit.vollm@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 7670
University of Manchester
Stopford Building
Manchester M13 9PT
UK
Research
Current projects
• The neurobiology of impulse control, reward and empathy in normal, antisocial and anxious individuals
• A study of 5HT pharmacological challenge combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging: the effects of mirtazapine pre-treatment on mCPP challenge: phMRI study in healthy subjects
• Neuronal correlates of ToM and empathy: task development and fMRI studies in healthy volunteers
• Comparison of mental health legislation across Europe
• Review of risk and personality assessments in female offenders
• Cochrane review of the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for borderline personality disorder
Past projects
• Name change in a high security hospital population (2000-2005)
• Regional cerebral blood flow response to i. v. Amphetamine challenge: an fMRI study (2000-2004)
• Influence of 5-HT transporter polymorphism on 5-HT function (2000-2001)
• Prevalence of diseases, illness behaviour and health care system utilisation in single homeless men (1996-2001)
• Treatment outcome of young patients with schizophrenia in a therapeutic community (1999)
• Use of animals and alternative methods in postgraduate education at German universities (1990-1995)
• The neurobiology of impulse control, reward and empathy in normal, antisocial and anxious individuals
• A study of 5HT pharmacological challenge combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging: the effects of mirtazapine pre-treatment on mCPP challenge: phMRI study in healthy subjects
• Neuronal correlates of ToM and empathy: task development and fMRI studies in healthy volunteers
• Comparison of mental health legislation across Europe
• Review of risk and personality assessments in female offenders
• Cochrane review of the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for borderline personality disorder
Past projects
• Name change in a high security hospital population (2000-2005)
• Regional cerebral blood flow response to i. v. Amphetamine challenge: an fMRI study (2000-2004)
• Influence of 5-HT transporter polymorphism on 5-HT function (2000-2001)
• Prevalence of diseases, illness behaviour and health care system utilisation in single homeless men (1996-2001)
• Treatment outcome of young patients with schizophrenia in a therapeutic community (1999)
• Use of animals and alternative methods in postgraduate education at German universities (1990-1995)
Publications
2010
- Vollm BA, Richardson PC, McKie S, Reniers R, Elliott R, Anderson I, Williams SR, Dolan M, Deakin JFW. (2010). Neuronal correlates and serotonergic modulation of behavioural inhibition and reward in healthy and antisocial individuals. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 44, 123-131. eScholarID:1d21083 | DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2009.07.005
2007
- Vollm BA, Richardson PC, McKie S, Elliott R, Dolan M, Deakin JFW. (2007). Neuronal correlates of reward and loss in Cluster B personality disorder: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 15, 151-167. eScholarID:1d14230
2006
- Elliott R, Vollm BA, A Drury, McKie S, Richardson PC, Deakin JFW. (2006). Cooperation with another player in a financially rewarded guessing game activates regions implicated in theory of mind. Social Neuroscience, 1, 385-395. eScholarID:1d14206
- Vollm BA, Richardson PC, McKie S, Deakin JFW, Elliott R, Anderson I. (2006). Serotonergic Modulation of Neuronal Responses to Behavioural Inhibition and Reinforcing Stimuli: An fMRI Study in Healthy Volunteers. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 552-560. eScholarID:1d12374 | DOI:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04571.x
- Vollm BA, Taylor ANW, Richardson PC, Corcoran R, Stirling J, McKie S, Deakin JFW, Elliott R. (2006). Neuronal Correlates of Theory of Mind and Empathy: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in a Nonverbal Task. Neuroimage, 29, 90-98. eScholarID:1d12297 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.022
2004
- Vollm BA, Becker H, Kunstmann W. (2004). Die Prävalenz körperlicher Erkrankungen, Gesundheitsverhalten und die Nutzung des Gesundheitssystems bei alleinstehenden wohnungslosen Männern: Eine Querschnittsuntersuchung (Prevalence of physical diseases, health behaviour and health care utilization in single homeless men: a cross-sectional study). Sozial- und Praeventivmedizin, 49, 42-50. eScholarID:1d12302
- Vollm BA, Cowen PJ, Smith KA, Jezzard P, Heal RJ, Matthews PM, de Araujo IET, Kringelbach ML, Rolls ET. (2004). Methamphetamine Activates Reward Circuitry in Drug Naive Human Subjects. Neuropsychopharmacology, 29(9), 1715-1722. eScholarID:1d12299 | DOI:10.1038/sj.npp.1300481
- Vollm, BA, Richardson, PC, Stirling, J, Elliott, R, Dolan, M, Chaudhry, I, Del Ben, C, McKie, S, Anderson, I, Deakin, JFW. (2004). Neurobiological substrates of antisocial and borderline personality disorder: preliminary results of a functional MRI study. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 14, eScholarID:1d9067