Staff Profile

Consultant psychiatrist for Adult neurodevelopemental disorders

UKAAN Lead for the North East of England

Member of CADDRA research committee

Ongoing Projects

CI for UK Landscape study

PI for SNAPPER Study

PI for ART-Carma study

Co investigator for multimodal sensing in ADHD (funding submitted)

Completed Projects

Sub I PAX-BD - pramiprexole in depression study.

PI for digital medicines trial

PI for Ketamine in ECT trial

PI for LQD trial (TEWV)

Sub I Intranasal ketamine  study

Honorary Fellow Newcastle University

Supervisor for PGR students

Educational supervisor for FY1 trainees

Clinical supervisor for Core trainees

Clinical supervisor for CESR fellow

Clinical supervisor for Overseas Fellowship scheme

Clinical supervisor for Physician associate students

Clinical supervisor for Nurse medical prescribers

Clinical examiner for CASC exam conducted by Royal college of psychiatrists

Educational supervision for third and fifth year medical students

• Articles

  • Tariq A, Ziemssen F, Loewenstein A, Nair R, Hawkins A, Daly A. Post-visual diagnosis distress:the weight of threatened sight. Ophthalmology and therapy 2026.
  • Yichun L, Yi L, Nair R, Naqvi M. A novel audio-visual model with real-time gradient modulation for mental disorder detection. 2026. In Press.
  • Nash C, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Optimising ADHD Detection: An Autoencoder Approach for Multimodal Classification. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence 2025, 7(2), 1107-1117.
  • Cleare AJ, Kerr-Gaffney J, Goldsmith K, Zenasni Z, Yaziji N, Jin H, Colasanti A, Geddes JR, Kessler D, McAllister-Williams RH, Young AH, Barrera A, Marwood L, Taylor RW, Tee H, Rucker J, Day C, Bountouni I, Juruena M, Jelen L, Edwards A, Kan C, Jairaj C, Waterman L, McCutcheon R, Gadelrab R, Patel R, McLoughlin P, Day E, Shah R, Cattell J, De Angel V, Incecik E, Ancane A, Oprea E, Ulrichsen A, Nikolova V, Mantingh T, Tsapekos D, Pickles A, Deitch D, Strawbridge R, Romeo R, Holland R, Watson S, Marey H, Ahuja N, Arebi E, Armstrong D, Buruju D, Emechebe A, Esi O, Healicon J, Osman S, Stageman W, Sud N, Raj V, Burgess J, Hutchinson J, Nortey K, Wilson S, Hall W, Swift J, Carr R, Hamilton J, Reilly J, Nair R, Cowen PJ, Browning M, McKeown L, Mather S, Potts J, Millar C, Hollingsworth S, Dean R, Morgan C, Harvey J, Davies F, Cipriani A, Attenburrow M-J, Evans J, Davies J, Leach R, Roiz de S'a C, Pooley J, Emery G, Gregory S. Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression: a pragmatic, open-label, parallel-group, randomised controlled superiority trial in the UK. The Lancet Psychiatry 2025, 12(4), 276-288.
  • Loi S, Joshee P, Ottridge R, Woolley R, Gkini E, Asherson P, Young A, Al-Jaebi H, Broome M, Roberts A, Gottlieb N, Hindmarch P, Silman D, Sharma P, Juruena M, Nair R, Mukherjee T, Katshu M, Marwaha S. A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Stimulant compared with Non-stimulant medication for adults with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and a history of Psychosis or biPolar disordER: SNAPPER. 2025.
  • Nash C, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Insights into Detecting Adult ADHD Symptoms Through Advanced Dual-Stream Machine Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 2024, 32, 3378-3387.
  • Li Y, Nair R, Naqvi SM. ADHD detection based on human action recognition. Neuroscience Applied 2024, 3, 104093.
  • Li S, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Acoustic and Text Features Analysis for Adult ADHD Screening: A Data-Driven ApproachUtilizing DIVA Interview. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine 2024, 12, 359-370.
  • Nash C, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Machine Learning in ADHD and Depression Mental Health Diagnosis: A Survey. IEEE Access 2023, 11, 86297-86317.
  • Li Y, Li S, Nash C, Naqvi SM, Nair R. INTELLIGENT SENSING IN ADHD TRIAL (ISAT) – PILOT STUDY. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2023, 94(12), e2.
  • Li Y, Li S, Naqvi S, Nair R. Intelligent sensing in ADHD Trial (IAST) -Pilot study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2023, 94(12), e2.
  • Li Y, Naqvi SM, Nair R. ADHD Diagnosis Based on Action Characteristics Recorded in Videos Using ML. Neuroscience Applied 2023, 2(Suppl. 2), 102835.
  • Palmos AB, Watson S, Hughes T, Finkelmeyer A, McAllister-Williams RH, Ferrier N, Anderson IM, Nair R, Young AH, Strawbridge R, Cleare AJ, Chung R, Frissa S, Goodwin L, Hotopf M, Hatch SL, Wang H, Collier DA, Thuret S, Breen G, Powell TR. Associations between childhood maltreatment and inflammatory markers. BJ Psych Open 2019, 5(1), e3.
  • Marwood l, Taylor R, Goldsmith K, Romeo R, Holland R, Pickles A, Hutchinson J, Dietch D, Cipriani A, Nair R, Attenburrow MJ, Young AH, Geddes J, McAllister-Williams RH, Cleare AJ. Study Protocol for a randomised pragmatic trial comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of Lithium and quetiapine augmentation in treatment resistant depression (the LQD study). BMC Psychiatry 2017, 17, 231.
  • Gupta S, Lakshmanan D, Khastgir u, Nair R. Management of antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinaemia. BJPsych Advances 2017, 23(4), 278-286.
  • Anderson IM, Blamire A, Branton T, Clark R, Downey D, Dunn G, Easton A, Elliott R, Elwell C, Hayden K, Holland F, Karim S, Loo C, Lowe J, Nair R, Oakley T, Prakash A, Sharma PK, Williams SR, McAllister-Williams RH. Ketamine augmentation of electroconvulsive therapy to improve neuropsychological and clinical outcomes in depression (Ketamine-ECT): A multicentre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial. The Lancet Psychiatry 2017, 4(5), 365-377.
  • Trevithick L, McAllister-Williams RH, Blamire A, Branton T, Clark R, Downey D, Dunn G, Easton A, Elliott R, Ellwell C, Hayden K, Holland F, Karim S, Lowe J, Loo C, Nair R, Oakley T, Prakash A, Sharma PK, Williams SR, Anderson IM. Study protocol for the randomised controlled trial: Ketamine augmentation of ECT to improve outcomes in depression (Ketamine-ECT study). BMC Psychiatry 2015, 15, 257.
  • Nair R, Reading R, Killilea k. Great Imitator. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2015, 86, e3.
  • Bhogal K, Baldwin DS, Hartland L, Nair R. Differences between ethnic groups in demographic and clinical features of patients admitted and assessed after deliberate self-harm. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 2006, 52(6), 483-486.
  • Baldwin S, Nair R. Escitalopram in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Expert Opinion in Neurotherapeutics 2005, 5(4), 443-449.

• Book Chapter

  • Nair R, Bjorling P, Abdul-Rahman M, Turkington G. Prescribing in SCM: UK and Europe. In: SCM for Personality Disorder. 2025.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Ramos-Quiroga J, Nair R, Borg Skoglund C, Biedermann P, CanalDiaz N, Truong Berthoz F, Reif A. UNVEILING ADHD IN ADULT PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS: RESULTS FROM THE LANDSCAPE STUDY, PART 1. 2026.
  • Li Y, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Video-based skeleton data analysis for ADHD detection. In: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI). 2024, Mexico City, Mexico: IEEE.
  • Li Y, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Title: Harnessing Video Intelligence: Intelligent System for ADHD Detection. In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW). 2024, Seoul: IEEE.
  • Nash C, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Cross-Modal Attention for Multimodal Information Fusion: A Novel Approach to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Detection. In: 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2024). 2024, Venice, Italy.
  • Li Y, Li S, Nash C, Naqvi SM, Nair R. Intelligent sensing in ADHD trial (ISAT) – pilot study. In: British Neuro Psychiatry Association (BNPA) Annual Meeting. 2023, London.
  • Li S, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Detecting ADHD from Speech Using FULL-Band and SUB-Band Convolution Fusion Network. In: 2023 IEEE SENSORS. 2023, Vienna, Austria: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • Nash C, Nair R, Naqvi SM. ADHD Mental Health Symptoms Detection Based on Facial Landmark Tracking. In: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Robotics, Signal and Image Processing (AIRoSIP). 2023, Indonesia.
  • Li Y, Yang Y, Nair R, Naqvi MN. Action-Based ADHD Diagnosis in Video. In: 31st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks. 2023, Bruges.
  • Nash C, Nair R, Naqvi SM. Machine Learning and ADHD Mental Health Detection - A Short Survey. In: 2022 25th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION). 2022, Linköping, Sweden: IEEE.
  • Nair R, Reading P, Killilea K. The Great Imitator. 2015.

• Note

  • Peilober-Richardson A, Nair R, Tattersall R, Gledhill L, Aslam S, Aslam T. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Ophthalmologists: Opportunities and Challenges. Ophthalmology and Therapy 2026, 15, 35-43.