Dr Matthew PG Allin  BA BMBCh MRCP MRCPsych DM
Clinical Lecturer
Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist

biography

After graduating from medical school, Matt worked in General Medicine in the East End of London, and then went on to specialise in Neurology for a while. He came to the Institute of Psychiatry in 1998 to work on a study of the long-term outcomes of premature birth. While there he saw the light and trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley and associated hospitals.

He is currently a clinical lecturer and honorary consultant psychiatrist.

Interests: Adolescent and adult brain development; premature birth; psychosis

teaching activities

Maudsley Forum

Organising Committee

publications

Peer-reviewed publications
Allin MPG, Matsumoto H, Santhouse AM, Nosarti C, Al-Asady MHS, Stewart AL, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2001. Cognitive and motor function and the size of the cerebellum in adolescents born very preterm. Brain 124:60-66

Abel KM, Allin MPG, Hemsley DH, Geyer MA. 2003. Ketamine enhances prepulse inhibition in healthy males: a double blind, placebo-controlled study. Neuropharmacology 44: 729-737

Abel KM, Allin MPG, Williams S, Andrew C, Phillips ML. 2003. Ketamine alters neural processing of the facial emotion recognition in healthy men: an FMRI study Neuroreport 14 (3): 387-391

Abel KM, Allin MPG, Kucharska-Pietura K, Andrew C, Williams S, David AS, Phillips ML. 2003. Ketamine and fMRI BOLD signal: Distinguishing between effects mediated by change in blood flow versus change in cognitive state. Human Brain Mapping 18: 135-145

Allin MPG, Henderson M, Suckling J, Nosarti C, Rushe T, Fearon P, Stewart AL, Bullmore ET, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2004 The effects of very low birth weight on brain structure in adulthood. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 46:46-53

Fearon P, O’Connell P, Frangou S, Aquino S, Taylor M, Allin MPG, Stewart A, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2004. Brain volumes in adult survivors of very low birthweight: a sibling controlled study. Pediatrics 114:367-371

Allin MPG, Salaria S, Nosarti C, Wyatt J, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2005. Vermis and lateral lobes of the cerebellum in adolescents born very preterm. NeuroReport 16:1821-1824

Nosarti C, Allin MPG, Frangou S, Stewart AL, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2005. Decreased caudate volume is associated with hyperactivity in adolescents born very preterm. Biological Psychiatry 6: 661-666

Fu CHY , Abel KM, Allin MPG, Gasston D, Costafreda SG, Suckling J, Williams SCR, McGuire PK. 2005 Effects of ketamine on prefrontal and striatal regions in an overt verbal fluency task: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Psychopharmacology 183:92-102

Allin MPG, Rooney M, Cuddy M, Wyatt J, Walshe M, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2006. Personality in young adults who are born preterm. Pediatrics. 117:309-316

Allin MPG, Rooney M, Griffiths T, Cuddy M, Wyatt J, Rifkin L, Murray RM. 2006. Neurological abnormalities in young adults born preterm. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 77:495-499

Lancefield K, Nosarti C, Rifkin L, Allin MPG, Sham P, Murray R. 2006. Cerebral asymmetry in 14 year olds born very preterm. Brain Research 1093:33–40

Abel KM, Allin MPG, van Amelsvoort T, Hemsley D, Geyer MA. 2007. The indirect serotonergic agonist d-fenfluramine and prepulse inhibition in healthy men. Neuropharmacology 52:1088-1094

Catani M, Allin MPG, Husain M, Pugliese L, Murray RM, Jones DK. 2007. Symmetries in human brain language pathways correlate with verbal recall. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:17163-17168

Allin MPG, Nosarti C, Narberhaus A, Walshe M, Frearson S, Wyatt J, Rifkin L, Murray R. 2007. Growth of the corpus callosum in adolescents born preterm. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 161(12):1183-1189

Haidemenos A, Kontis D, Gazi A, Kallai E, Allin MPG, Lucia B. 2007. Plasma homocysteine, folate and B12 in chronic schizophrenia. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 31:1289–1296

Allin MPG, Walshe M, Fern A, Nosarti C, Rushe T, Cuddy M, Wyatt J, Rifkin L, Murray R. 2008. Cognitive maturation in preterm and term born adolescents. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 79;381-386

Parker J, Mitchell A, Kalpakidou A, Walshe M, Yeon-Jung H, Nosarti C, Santosh P, Rifkin L, Wyatt J, Murray RM, Allin MPG. 2008. Cerebellar Growth and Behavioural & Neuropsychological Outcome in Preterm Adolescents. Brain 131(5):1344-1351

Walshe M, Rifkin L, Rooney M, Healy E, Fern A, Wyatt J, Murray RM and Allin MPG. 2008. Psychiatric disorder in young adults born very preterm: role of family history. European Psychiatry 23:527-531

Dazzan P, Lloyd T, Morgan KD, Zanelli J, Morgan C, Orr K, Hutchinson G, Fearon P, Allin MPG, Rifkin L, McGuire PK, Doody G, Leff J, Harrison G, Jones PB, Murray RM. 2008. Neurological abnormalities and cognitive function in a large epidemiological first episode psychosis sample. British Journal of Psychiatry. 93: 197-202

Lawrence EJ, Rubia K, Murray RM, McGuire PK, Walshe M, Allin MPG, Giampietro V, Rifkin L, Williams SCR, Nosarti C. 2008. The neural basis of response inhibition and attention allocation as mediated by gestational age. Human Brain Mapping. 30:1038 – 1050

Kontis D, Catani M, Cuddy M, Walshe M, Nosarti C, Jones D, Wyatt J, Rifkin L, Murray RM, Allin MPG. 2009. Diffusion Tensor MRI of the corpus callosum and cognitive function in adults born preterm. Neuroreport 20:424-428

Narberhaus A, Lawrence E, Allin MPG, Walshe M, McGuire PK, Rifkin L, Murray RM, Nosarti C. 2009. Neural substrates of letter fluency processing in young adults who were born very preterm: alterations in frontal and striatal regions. Neuroimage 47:1884-1893

Dutt A, McDonald C, Dempster E, Prata D, Shaikh M, Williams I, Schulze K, Marshall N, Walshe M,
Allin MPG, Collier D, Murray RM, Bramon E. 2009. The effect of COMT, BDNF, 5HTT, NRG1 and DTNBP1 genes on hippocampal and lateral ventricular volume in psychosis. Psychological Medicine. doi:10.1017/S0033291709990316

Allin MPG, Marshall N, Schulze K, Walshe M, Hall M-H, Picchioni M, Murray RM, McDonald C. 2010. A functional MRI study of verbal fluency in adults with bipolar disorder and their unaffected relatives. Psychological Medicine. In press

Nosarti C, Shergill S, Allin MPG, Walshe M, Rifkin L, Murray RM, McGuire PK. 2009. Neural substrates of visual paired associates in young adults with a history of very preterm birth: alterations in fronto-parieto-occipital networks and caudate nucleus. Neuroimage. In press. MS: NIMG-08-1492R2

Dutt A, Shaikh M, Ganguly T, Walshe M, Arranz M, Rifkin L, McDonald C, Bramon E, Nosarti C, Murray RM, McGuire P, Allin MPG. 2010. COMT gene polymorphism and corpus callosum morphometry in preterm born adults. NeuroImage. In Press



Chapters reviews and editorials
Allin M & Murray RM. 2002. Schizophrenia: a neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative disorder? Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 15:9-15

Allin M, Streeruwitz A, Curtis V. 2005. Progress in understanding conversion disorder. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 3:205-209

Allin M, Nosarti C, Rifkin R, Murray RM. Brain Plasticity and Long Term Function after Early Cerebral Insult: the Example of Very Preterm Birth. In: Neurodevelopment and Schizophrenia. Eds: Keshavan, Kennedy, Murray. 2005

Allin M. 2006. Brain growth in preterm babies. Lancet Neurology 5:812-813

Allin M, Fleminger S. Acquired brain injury. In: Textbook of Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Ed: Roberts G, Davenport S, Holloway F, Tattan T. 2006. In Press

Abel KM and Allin M. 2006. Placental programming leading to mental ill health: Fetal growth and schizophrenia. In: Clinics in Developmental Medicine No 169: The placenta and neurodisability. Eds Baker P, Sibley C. pp 118-136

Abel KM, Allin M, Jirtle RL. 2006. Schizophrenia, cancer and imprinting: early nutritional influences. B J Psychiatry 180:396

Allin M and Nosarti C. 2006. Preterm Birth and the adult brain. Italian Journal of Pediatrics. Ital J Pediatr 31:38-43

Allin MPG. 2010. Preterm babies grown up: understanding a hidden public health problem [Editorial]. Psychological Medicine 40:5-7

Allin MPG, Walshe M, Nosarti C. 2010. Diffusion tensor imaging findings in preterm and low birth weight populations. In: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Preterm Birth: From childhood to adult life. Eds Nosarti C, Hack M, Murray RM. Cambridge University Press

Allin MPG and Nosarti C. 2010. Magnetic Resonance Imaging findings from adolescence to adulthood. In: In: Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Preterm Birth: From childhood to adult life. Eds Nosarti C, Hack M, Murray RM. Cambridge University Press

Allin MPG and Nosarti C. 2010. The Black Hole of the adolescent brain. Festschrift for Professor Robin Murray. In press

Allin MPG. 2010. Consequences for cerebellar development of very premature birth. In: Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. Ed: Manto M, Gruol D, Schmahmann J, Koibuchi N and Rossi F. Springer. In preparation

last updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2008