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Wellcome Trust Annual Review Article Prof H Critchley and Dr N Harrison

Psychiatry at BSMS

The department of Psychiatry lies within the Division of Medicine and encompasses fulltime academics, honorary lecturers and senior lecturers engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate neuroscience research.

Professor Hugo Critchley was appointed Foundation Chair in October 2006. His research group is engaged in neuroimaging and psychophysiological studies of emotion and psychosomatic medicine and is closely linked with CISC, the Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre. Strong collaboration with Life Sciences include the MRC DTA Studentship with Dr Jamie Ward.

Dr Nick Medford is the appointed Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry. Dr Medford is a neuropsychiatrist and took up his post in March 2008.

The department has strong links with Sussex Partnership NHS Trust and the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine, from where the MRC Psychiatry course operates.

Dr Neil Harrison, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Neuroimaging and Neuropsychiatry was appointed in December 2008. He takes up a fixed term post from 5th January - September 2009 and joins the Psychiatry team.

Mr Ludovico Minati, newly appointed Research Fellow, also joined Professor Critchley's team on 12th January 2009.

Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre

Functional brain imaging is now up and running at CISC. 

Dr Marcus Gray acquired functional imaging (echoplanar) data from the Siemens Avanto scanner during performance of ‘low level’ task protocols to identify primary visual cortices and somatomotor areas.  Analysis of the data reveals very powerful changes in BOLD signal, even at a single subject level [the figures illustrate single subject data where the coloured regions within visual and somatomotor cortices survive statistical correction at P>0. 005, after correction for more than 300,000 observations across the whole brain].  Marcus, whose recent research has focuses on heart-brain interaction, is actively involved in the development of sophisticated functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques at CISC.

Research areas

  • Neuroimaging
  • Neuropsychology
  • Mental health
  • Psychosomatic medicine

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