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Mary Robertson

{{Short description|South African neuropsychiatrist (born 1948)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Use South African English|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox academic

| name = Mary Robertson

| birth_name = Mary May Robertson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|06|07|df=y}}

| birth_place = Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa

| discipline = Psychiatry

| known_for = Research on Tourette syndrome

| alma_mater = University of Cape Town

| workplaces = University College London

}}

Mary May Robertson (born 7 June 1948) is a South African neuropsychiatrist and academic. She holds honorary positions at the University of Cape Town and University College London, where she serves as an Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Professor at the Department of Psychiatry respectively. She is a consultant at St George's Hospital, London.

Education

Robertson studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and graduated with a medical degree in 1971. After being trained in the UK, and obtaining her qualification in Psychiatry, she became a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1991. She did a three-year doctorate degree at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and was made a Professor at the University College London (UCL) in 1998.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npUwJY4y_p4C&dq=%22mary+may+robertson%22+%22ucl%22+%22emeritus%22&pg=PR17|title=The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders|first1=Patricia|last1=Howlin|first2=Tony|last2=Charman|first3=Mohammad|last3=Ghaziuddin|date=31 January 2011|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-4462-5279-6 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/7401311/The-NHS-hospital-the-hell-of-finding-myself-in-a-hospital-bed.html|title=The NHS hospital: the hell of finding myself in a hospital bed|date=9 March 2010|website=The Telegraph}} During that period, she was awarded a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She received her Doctor of Science in Medicine in 2006. She was the first woman to receive that degree from UCT.{{cite web | title=Robertson entertains her doctors | website=UCT News | date=4 May 2010 | url=https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2010-05-04-robertson-entertains-her-doctors | access-date=3 November 2024}} She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society for travelling in 1976 "on a yacht, circumnavigating under square rig while undertaking solo expeditions upriver, and living with the Ibans in the Borneo jungle".

Career

Robertson's research explored Tourette syndrome;{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(14)00138-2/fulltext|title=Mary Robertson: unravelling Tourette's syndrome — The Lancet Psychiatry}}https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01599.x in which she is described as «a leading expert in the field of Tourette Syndrome» she authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and four books. In 2000 she co-founded in Denmark with Anne Korsgaad the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS), of which she was appointed Honorary President for Life in 2008.{{Cite journal|title=A Brief History of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome|first1=Hugh|last1=Rickards|first2=Peristera|last2=Paschou|first3=Renata|last3=Rizzo|first4=Jeremy S.|last4=Stern|date=4 November 2013|journal=Behavioural Neurology|volume=27|issue=1|pages=3–5|doi=10.1155/2013/354604|doi-access=free |pmid=23187138|pmc=5215359}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.essts.org/news/happy-birthday-mary-robertson|title=ESSTS | Meetings | Happy Birthday Mary Robertson!|website=www.essts.org}}

She retired early in 2002 due to poor health and was appointed Emeritus Professor of UCL.

Selected publications

= Books =

  • {{Cite book |last1=Katona |first1=Cornelius |title=Psychiatry at a Glance |last2=Robertson |first2=Mary |date=1995 |publisher=Blackwell Science |isbn=0-865-42873-5 |location=Oxford}}{{Cite journal |last=Warner |first=James |date=July 1996 |title=Psychiatry at a Glance. By Cornelius Katona and Mary Robertson. Oxford: Blackwell Science. 1995. 80 pp. £9.95 (pb). |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0007125000145271/type/journal_article |journal=British Journal of Psychiatry |language=en |volume=169 |issue=1 |pages=127 |doi=10.1192/S0007125000145271 |issn=0007-1250}}{{Cite journal |last=Shepherd |first=Simon |date=May 1996 |title=Psychiatry at a Glance |journal=British Journal of General Practice |volume=46 |issue=406 |pages=322–323 |pmc=1239655 }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Katona |first1=Cornelius |title=Psychiatry at a Glance |last2=Robertson |first2=Mary |date=2005 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |isbn=1-405-12404-0 |edition=3rd |location=}}{{Cite journal |date=December 2006 |title=Psychiatry at a glance, 3d ed. |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/200143385 |journal=Scitech Book News |location=Portland |volume=30 |issue=4 |id={{ProQuest|200143385}} |via=ProQuest}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Katona |first1=Cornelius L. E. |title=Psychiatry at a Glance |last2=Cooper |first2=Claudia |last3=Robertson |first3=Mary M. |date=2008 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-1-4051-8117-4 |edition=4th |series= |location=Chichester, West Sussex}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Katona |first1=Cornelius L. E. |title=Psychiatry at a Glance |last2=Cooper |first2=Claudia |last3=Robertson |first3=Mary M. |date=2012 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-0-470-65891-8 |edition=5th |series= |location=Chichester, West Sussex}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Katona |first1=Cornelius L. E. |title=Psychiatry at a Glance |last2=Cooper |first2=Claudia |last3=Robertson |first3=Mary |date=2015 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-1-119-12967-7 |edition=6th}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Robertson |first1=Mary M. |title=Tourette syndrome: the facts |last2=Baron-Cohen |first2=Simon |author-link2=Simon Baron-Cohen |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-852398-7 |edition= |series= |location=Oxford}}{{Cite journal |last=Shafran |first=Roz |date=July 2000 |title=Tourette Syndrome: The Facts; M.M. Robertson, S. Baron-Cohen: Oxford University Press, Oxford (1998), 110 pp., £9.99 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S000579679900114X |journal=Behaviour Research and Therapy |language=en |volume=38 |issue=7 |pages=748–749 |doi=10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00114-X}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Robertson |first1=Mary M. |title=Tourette Syndrome: The Facts |last2=Cavanna |first2=Andrea Eugenio |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-929819-8 |edition=2nd |series= |location=}}{{Cite journal |last=Hutchinson |first=Liz |date=July 2009 |title=M. Robertson A. Cavanna 2008: Tourette syndrome, second edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 168 pp, £13.99 paperback. ISBN 978-0-19-929 819-8 |url=http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1463423609001212 |journal=Primary Health Care Research & Development |language=en |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=279 |doi=10.1017/S1463423609001212 |doi-broken-date=5 December 2024 |issn=1463-4236}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Carroll |first1=Amber |title=Tourette Syndrome: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Parents and Carers |last2=Robertson |first2=Mary M. |date=2000 |publisher=David Fulton |isbn=978-1-85346-656-4 |series= |location=London}}>{{Cite journal |date=March 2002 |title=Book reviews |url=https://nasenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8527.00239 |journal=British Journal of Special Education |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=52–53 |doi=10.1111/1467-8527.00239 |issn=0952-3383}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Chowdhury |first1=Uttom |title=Why Do You Do That? A book about Tourette Syndrome for Children and Young People |last2=Robertson |first2=Mary |date=2006 |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |isbn=978-1-843-10395-0}}{{Cite journal |last=Hickman |first=Christine |date=November 2006 |title=REVIEWS |url=https://nasenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9604.2006.00436.x |journal=Support for Learning |language=en |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=219 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9604.2006.00436.x |issn=0268-2141}}

= Journal articles =

  • Robertson MM, Eapen V (October 2014). "Tourette's: syndrome, disorder or spectrum? Classificatory challenges and an appraisal of the DSM criteria". Asian Journal of Psychiatry .
  • Robertson MM (November 2008). "The prevalence and epidemiology of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Part 1: the epidemiological and prevalence studies". J Psychosom Res. 65 (5): 461–472.
  • Robertson MM (February 2011). "Gilles de la Tourette syndrome: the complexities of phenotype and treatment". Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 72 (2): 100–107
  • Robertson MM, Eapen V, Singer HS, et al. (February 2017). "Gilles de la Tourette syndrome" (PDF). Nat Rev Dis Primers. 3 (1): 16097
  • Stern JS, Burza S, Robertson MM (January 2005). "Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome and its impact in the UK". Postgrad Med J. 81 (951): 12–19
  • Robertson MM (March 2000). "Tourette syndrome, associated conditions and the complexities of treatment". Brain. 123
  • Eapen V, Robertson MM (2015). "Are there distinct subtypes in Tourette syndrome? Pure-Tourette syndrome versus Tourette syndrome-plus, and simple versus complex tics". Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 11: 1431–6
  • Freeman RD, Fast DK, Burd L, Kerbeshian J, Robertson MM, Sandor P (July 2000). "An international perspective on Tourette syndrome: selected findings from 3,500 individuals in 22 countries". Dev Med Child Neurol. 42 (7): 436–47

References

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External links

  • [https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/8873-mary-robertson/publications UCL Profile]

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Category:1948 births

Category:Living people

Category:University of Cape Town alumni

Category:South African psychiatrists

Category:Academics of University College London

Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians

Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Category:Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society

Category:Tourette syndrome