The Executive Committee - Feb 2011

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.

He is interested in general clinical neuropsychiatry and is part of a service that offers assessment and treatment for the full range of neuropsychiatric disorders.  He is the course director for the UK’s only MSc course in clinical neuropsychiatry.  From the research angle, he is interested in the interaction between motor and psychiatric disorders, particularly in relation to Tourette syndrome and Huntington’s disease.  Hugh is the outgoing chair of the European Society for the Study of Tourette syndrome.

Current Research and Interests: Genetic influences on development and functioning of neural systems associated with social cognition in humans; focus on the development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour, using neuroeconomic models. Clinical research programme involves high functioning autistic and Asperger children and adults. Other interests include behavioural and cognitive consequences of chromosomal rearrangements especially those involving sex chromosomes.

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 Astley Ainslie Hospital and the Regional Neurosciences Unit at the Western General Hospital. My collaboration with Michael and Charles has continued and I hold a post as part time Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University 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

His early training in psychology and philosophy began at University College Dublin and then later at the Departments of Clinical Neurology and Experimental Psychology at Oxford University where he specialized in the assessment, investigation and treatment of visual spatial and somatosensory disorders after stroke. An MRC Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Institute of Psychology in Beijing, and Department of Neurobiology and Cognitive Science at the University of Science and Technology of China, he was awarded the British Psychological Society's Presidents’ Award for outstanding contributions to Psychology in 2005.

He is co-editor of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry; associate editor of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Journal of Neuropsychology, Applied Neuropsychology, PLoS ONE and has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and 8 edited books including Method in Madness (1996),Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Hysteria (2001),The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology (2003),  Malingering and Illness Deception (2003), Effectiveness of Rehabilitation for Cognitive Deficits, (2005), The Power of Belief (2006) and Psychogenic Movement Disorders and other Conversion disorders (2011)

His research interests centre on mechanisms of human memory and their disruption in brain disease, particularly epilepsy. He trained in medicine at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh and obtained his PhD for work conducted on the syndrome of Transient Epileptic Amnesia under the supervision of Adam Zeman. Together with Adam Zeman, he helps to coordinate the nationwide TIME (The Impairment of Memory in Epilepsy) Project. He runs a multidisciplinary Cognitive Disorders Clinic at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

He completed his neurology training in Leeds and in the Department of Epileptology at the University of Bonn, Germany. His clinical and work and research focus on epileptology but reach out into the borderlands of epilepsy. He has particular interests in nonepileptic attack disorder and the use of conversation analysis and other linguistic methodologies in clinical neurology research. Markus Reuber has been a member of Council of Epilepsy Action for over ten years and currently serves as interim Editor-in-Chief for Seizure, the European Journal of Epilepsy.

His research interests focus on memory disorders in epilepsy, disorders of visual imagery and attitudes to the relationship between mind and brain. He is the author of ‘Consciousness: a user’s guide’ and ‘A Portrait of the Brain’, both published by Yale UP. He was Chairman of the BNPA from 2008-2011.

Was Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and is the single author of the seminal textbook 'Organic Psychiatry'