Chairman Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology. Department of Neurology, Peninsula Medical School, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW adam.zeman@pms.ac.uk
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).
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
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.
Dr Jon Stone Dr Jon Stone is a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Edinburgh. He trained in Edinburgh, Leeds and Newcastle. He has been working in the area of functional symptoms in neurology since 1999 and collaborates with Michael Sharpe, Alan Carson and Charles Warlow. He has a particular interest in 'conversion disorder', especially the symptom of weakness (for a general clinical review article see Stone et al. Functional Symptoms in Neurology. JNNP; 2005; 76 (Suppl 1): 2-21)
Professor Rodger Ll Wood qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1977, then specialised in neuropsychology, receiving training in neurosciences at CambridgeUniversity with, the Department of Neuroscience at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and Department of Neuropsychology at the Institute of Neurology, Queen’s Square, London.He completed his Doctoral thesis at the University of Leicester, in 1985 and was elected as Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1991.
In 1979, he was appointed Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Kemsley Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton, becoming Consultant Neuropsychologist in 1984. In 1986 he was appointed as Clinical Director of Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services, CasaColinaHospital for Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Los Angeles, combining this with the role of Visiting Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at the State University of New York. In 1991 he returned to the UK to take up an appointment as Clinical Director of the newly formed Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, helping to develop post-acute brain injury rehabilitation services in the UK. Over the next 10 years, this became the biggest post-acute brain injury rehabilitation service in Europe.
In 2001, Professor Wood returned to live and work in Wales.He is currently, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Wales Swansea, and Honorary Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, Neuroscience Directorate, MorristonHospital.He has published over 70 articles, clinical case studies, and research papers in refereed journals, relating to head injury and rehabilitation; plus various book chapters, four edited volumes and one single author book.
Ex-Officio Members
Dr Simon Fleminger, Institute of Psychiatryis is Chair of the Special Interest Group in Neuropsychiatry (SIGN) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. SIGN works closely with the BNPA to develop neuropsychiatry training and accreditation in the UK. Dr Fleminger has a special interest in the neuropsychiatry of brain injury and runs the Lishman Brain Injury Unit at the Maudsley Hospital.
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'
