February 2010 BNPA Committee (from left to right) Hugh Rickards, David Skuse, Jackie Ashmenall, Adam Zeman, Rodger Ll Wood, Alan Carson, Jonathan Bird (SoN)
Interests
Chairman
Professor Eileen
Joyce
Eileen Joyce is
Professor of Neuropsychiatry at The Institute of Neurology and Honorary
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the The National Hospital for Neurology
and Neurosurgery. Her research focuses on neurocognitive dysfunction in
the early stages of schizophrenia and how this relates to brain
structural changes and clinical manifestations of the disorder.
Professor Joyce received a degree in psychology from the University of
Cambridge where she also completed her PhD in dopamine
psychopharmacology with Susan Iversen. She went on to study medicine at
Cambridge and trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. She spent
her higher clinical and research training in the neuropsychiatry
department of Professor Alwyn Lishman which was followed by a period of
time as a research associate at The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism, USA. She returned to the UK in 1991 to take up a senior
lectureship at Imperial College and remained there until 2005 when she
moved to University College London.
Secretary Dr Hugh Rickards Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital Mindelsohn Way Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2QZ
His main interests are the neuropsychiatry of motor disorder (in particular, Tourette syndrome and Huntington's disease). He also runs an MSc in clinical neuropsychiatry from the University of Birmingham.
Treasurer Professor David Skuse Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit Institute of Child Health 30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH
Genetic influences on development and functioning of neurocognitive brain systems in humans, especially those concerned with social cognition. Behavioural and cognitive consequences of cytogenetic anomalies (mainly chromosomes X, Y and 22). Deletion mapping dosage.
Directors
Dr Alan Carson MBCHB, MPHIL, MD, FRCPSYCH Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Robert Ferguson Unit, RoyalEdinburghHospital and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western GeneralHospital, Edinburgh
My interest in neuropsychiatry began during a spell working in Kenya as a Wellcome Research Registrar conducting a study on the psychiatric and cognitive effects of HIV infection. I then completed my higher training in Edinburgh, under the guidance of Professors Michael Sharpe and Charles Warlow, where I developed an interest in functional neurological symptoms. I currently work as a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist in Edinburgh split between the brain injury units at the AstleyAinslieHospital and the Regional Neurosciences Unit at the Western GeneralHospital. My collaboration with Michael and Charles has continued and I hold a post as part time Senior Lecturer at EdinburghUniversity where, along with Dr Jon Stone, we are engaged in the Scottish Neurological Symptoms Study a multi-centre, prospective cohort study of 4000 new neurology outpatients examining the outcome of functional neurological symptoms
Peter Halligan PhD DSc
FBPsS FPSI FMedSci became Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies in August 2006. He
is Professor of Neuropsychology and until October 2006, Project Director of the
Cardiff University Brain and Repair Imaging Centre (CUBRIC).
His
early training in psychology, philosophy and education began at University
College Dublin and was followed by 15 years at Oxford University working in the
Depts of Clinical Neurology and Experimental Psychology.
Since
joining Cardiff University in 2000 as Senior MRC Research Fellow and Cardiff
Research Professorial Fellow, he has played a central role in establishing
CUBRIC, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), the UnumProvident
Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, the Cardiff Cognitive
Neuroscience Seminar Series and the MindArt project.
Founder
and co-editor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Professor Halligan is Fellow of the
British Psychological Society, where in 2005 he was awarded the
Presidents' Award for outstanding contributions to psychology.
Much
of his research is interdisciplinary and he has published internationally with
more than 140 papers and 10 books.
Ex-Officio Members
Dr Jonathan Bird Chair, Section of Neuropsychiatry, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, The Burden Centre for Neuropsychiatry, FrenchayHospital, Bristol
Professor
Zeman trained in Oxford, London and Cambridge and was previously Reader
in Neurology in Edinburgh where he was supported for a period by by a
Health Foundation Mid-career Award. His clinical work is principally in
cognitive and behavioural neurology. His research interests include
amnesia associated with epilepsy (in particular transient epileptic
amnesia, accelerated forgetting and focal retrograde amnesia), the
cognitive and neuropsychiatric consequences of cerebellar disease and
disorders of visual imagery. He has an active background interest in the
science and philosophy of consciousness. He published a wide-ranging
review of the field in Brain (2001;124:1263-1289 ) and an accessible
introduction to the subject last year, intended for a general readership
(Consciousness: a user's guide, Yale University Press, 2003).
Honorary Life President Prof WA Lishman. Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London; Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals. Was Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and is the single author of the seminal textbook 'Organic Psychiatry'
