Dr Philippa Lilford is a Consultant Psychiatrist, working in Bristol on an acute general adult inpatient ward.
Her main interests, both clinically and academically, are in serious mental illness, particularly psychosis and her most recent research explored the association between inflammation and psychopathology.
Not all childhood trauma has the same biological impact. A new study finds that adversity in late childhood is most strongly linked to immune dysregulation at age 24.