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In what is often described as an ’intermediate phenotype’ or 'endophenotype' approach, studying these brain based ’phenotypes’ may help bring us closer to the mechanism of gene activity so as to understand the broader illness phenotype. The group studies how brain structure and function are affected by genetic risk factors for psychosis using neuropsychology, MRI and EEG.Īspects of brain structure, such as brain volume and white matter integrity, and brain functions, such as cortical activations that occur during information processing, are likely to mediate the effects of genetic risk variants on illness. Aiden Covin & Prof Michael Gill) and the clinical neuroimaging group at NUIG (with Prof Colm McDonald and Dr. Gary's research group, the CogGene group has strong collaborative ties with both the neuropsychiatric research group at TCD (with Prof. Gary also continues to be clinically active in mental health service delivery. In 2015 Gary was the recipient of a European Research Council fellowship award for his work on immune mediated genetic effects on cognition in schizophrenia. In 2015 Gary became the founding director of the Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics Research Center (NICOG), the goal of which is build on the synergistic activities of researchers from neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience and psychiatric genetics at NUIG. Gary continues to lead the Cognitive Genetics and Cognitive Therapy (CogGene) group, members of which are based between the school of psychology NUIG and TCD, where he holds the position of adjunct Professor in the school of medicine and principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience. Gary’s research focuses on understanding the genetic and neural basis of cognitive deficits associated with psychosis, and the development of therapeutic programs for overcoming these deficits. He was appointed an assistant professor in TCD’s school of medicine in 2006, and associate professor in 2009, where he was responsible for the school of medicine psychology program until 2013.

Following the completion of his Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, Gary undertook a research fellowship in the TCD neuropsychiatric genetics research, where he earned a PhD in Cognitive genomics and began the cognitive genomics lab. Gary was appointed to the school of psychology as Professor of psychology in July 2013.

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