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Nick Medford 2

Dr Nick Medford

Academic Position: Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry

Dr Nick Medford worked in general medicine and neurology before training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry. Clinically, he is interested in the interface between neurology and psychiatry. His research interests are in using functional MRI and other techniques to explore the neural basis of emotional experience in both healthy and clinical populations. He has a particular interest in depersonalisation and other dissociative phenomena, and believes that neuroscientific investigation of mental states is best combined with an interest in phenomenology and philosophy of mind.

Publications

  • Brierley B, Medford N, Shaw P, David AS. (2007) Emotional memory for words- separating content and context. Cognition and Emotion 21: 495-521.

  • Baker D, Earle M, Medford N, Sierra M, Towell A, David AS (2007) Illness Perceptions in Depersonalization Disorder: Testing an Illness Attribution Model. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 14: 105-116.

  • Lawrence EJ, Shaw P, Baker D, Patel MX, Sierra M, Medford N., David AS (2007) Empathy and Enduring Depersonalisation:the Role of Self-Related Processes. Social Neuroscience. In press

  • Stringaris AK, Medford N, Giampietro V, Brammer MJ, David AS. Deriving meaning: distinct neural mechanisms in the semantic network. (2007) Brain and Language, 100: 150-162.

  • Medford N, David AS (2006). Learning from repression: emotional memory and emotional numbing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 527-528.

  • Medford N, Brierley B, Brammer M, Bullmore ET, David AS, Phillips ML. (2006) Emotional memory in depersonalization disorder. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging 148: 93-102.

  • Sierra M, Baker D, Medford N, Lawrence E, Patel M, Phillips ML, David AS. (2006) Lamotrigine as an add-on treatment for depersonalization disorder: a retrospective study of 32 cases. Clinical Neuropharmacology 29: 253-258.

 

  • Stringaris AK, Medford N, Giora R, Giampietro V, Brammer MJ, David AS. (2006) How metaphors influence semantic relatedness judgements: the role of the right frontal cortex. Neuroimage 33: 784-793.

  • Medford N, Phillips ML, Brierley B, Brammer M, Bullmore ET, David AS (2005) Emotional memory: separating content and context. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging 138: 247-258.

  • Medford N, Sierra M, Baker D, David AS (2005) Understanding and treating depersonalisation disorder. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 11: 92-100.

  • Sierra M, Baker D, Medford N, David AS. (2005) Unpacking the depersonalization syndrome: an exploratory factor analysis on the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale. Psychological Medicine 35: 1523-1532.

  • Brierley B, Medford N, Shaw P, David AS. (2004) Emotional memory and perception dissociate in temporal lobectomy patients with amygdala damage. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 75: 593-599.

  • Medford N, Baker D, Hunter E, Sierra M, Lawrence E, Phillips ML, David AS (2003) Chronic depersonalization following illicit drug use: a controlled analysis of 40 cases. Addiction 98: 1731-36.

  • Baker D, Hunter E, Lawrence E, Medford N, Patel M, Senior C, Sierra M, Lambert MV, Phillips ML, David, A. S. (2003) Depersonalization disorder: clinical features of 204 cases. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182:428–433.

  • Kensinger EA, Brierley B, Medford N, Growdon JH, Corkin S. (2002) Effects of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease on emotional memory. Emotion 2: 118-134

  • Phillips ML, Medford N, Senior C, Bullmore E, Suckling J, Brammer M, Andrew C, Sierra M, Williams SCR, David AS. (2001) Depersonalization disorder: thinking without feeling. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging 108: 145-160.

  • Phillips ML, Medford N, Young AW, Williams L, Williams SC, Bullmore ET, Gray JA, Brammer MJ (2001). Time courses of left and right amygdalar responses to fearful facial expressions. Human Brain Mapping 12: 193-202
  • Phillips ML, Sierra M, Hunter E, Lambert MV, Medford N, Senior C, David AS. (2001) Service innovations: a depersonalisation progress unit report. Psychiatric Bulletin 25: 105-108
  • Senior C, Hunter E, Lambert MV, Medford N, Sierra M, Phillips ML, David AS (2001). Depersonalisation research at the Maudsley Hospital. The Psychologist 14: 128-133

Books and chapters

  • Medford N, Sierra M, David AS. Depersonalisation Disorder.  Chapter in New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, 2nd ed, in press, Oxford University Press.
  • Aleman A, Medford N, David AS (eds.) (2006). The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Emotion and Emotional Disorders. Psychology Press Ltd, UK.

  • Contributing author to Overcoming Depersonalisation And Feelings Of Unreality (ed. AS David) (2007) Constable Robinson Ltd, UK.

Contact details:

N.Medford@bsms.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1273 873818