Developmental Psychiatry Section

Developmental Psychiatry

Dr Ayla Humphrey

Ayla Humphrey, Ph.D., is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Affiliated Lecturer in the Autism Research Centre and the Cambridge Tuberous Sclerosis Clinic. She is also Lead for Child and Adolescent Psychology for the Cambridge and Peterborough Mental Health Trust and a clinician based at Brookside Family Consultation Clinic (Cambridge and Peterborough Mental Health Trust).

Her research interests include the social and cognitive impairments associated with Tuberous Sclerosis. She is a member of the coordinating committee for the TS 2000 Cohort Study, a longitudinal study of all individuals diagnosed with TS in Great Britain since 2001. She has a special interest in the affects of epilepsy on infant and early childhood development.

Other research interests include specific learning disorders in children referred to mental health services and remedial and supportive approaches for children with Asperger’s and High Functioning Autism.

Recent publications

Raznahan A, Higgins NP, Griffiths NP, Humphrey A, Yates JWR, Bolton PF (2007). Biological markers of intellectual disability in Tuberous Sclerosis. Psychological Medicine. 37(9):1293-304.

Billington T, Dean D, Fotheringham J, Humphrey A, Jones G (2007). British Psychological Society Position Paper on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Children. Leicester: British Psychological Society.

Humphrey A. (2006). Children behaving badly – a case of misunderstanding? The development of a CAMHS based child neuropsychology service. The Psychologist, 19 (8): 494-495.

Humphrey A, Neville BGR, Clarke A, Bolton PF. (2006) Autistic regression associated with seizure onset in an infant with Tuberous Sclerosis. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 48: 609–611.

de Vries P, Humphrey A, McCartney D, Prather P, Bolton PF, Hunt A and the TSC Behaviour Consensus Panel. (2005). Consensus clinical guidelines for the assessment of cognitive and behavioural problems in Tuberous Sclerosis. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 14: 183-190.

Humphrey A, Higgins NP, Yates JRW, Bolton PF. (2004) Monozygotic Twins with Tuberous Sclerosis Discordant for the Severity of Developmental Deficits. Neurology, 62 (1); 795-798.

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