Essential Neuroscience for Psychiatrists

Paul Johns, Gemma Northam, Pedro F Viana, Nandini Mullatti, David Cunningham Owens, Katie Marwick, Sukhi Sherghill, Raka Maitra, Martin van den Broek, Norman Poole, David Curtis, Derek Bolton, Adam Al-Diwani, Toby Pillinger, Alaisdair Coles, Belinda Lennox, Andrea Nani, Andrea E Cavanna, Valentina Gnoni, Danielle Wasserman, Hugh Selsick, Ivana Rosenzweig, Samantha Scholtz

Niruj Agrawal is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at St George's Hospital, London. He is a fellow of the RCPsych, was vice chair of the Faculty of Neuropsychiatry and is a member of the MRCPsych examinations subcommittee. He sits on the Board of Directors of the International Neuropsychiatry Association and is the lead co-editor of Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry. His interests include neuropsychiatric conditions in neurological settings, brain injury and functional neurological disorders. He has published over 90 peer reviewed papers and chapters, and is on the editorial boards of BJPsych Open and BJPsych Bulletin.

Norman Poole is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is a fellow of the RCPsych, edited the RCPsych Bulletin from 2018-2022, and sits on the College's Paper A Panel. He holds a National Institute for Health and Care Research grant investigating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a treatment for Functional Cognitive Disorder, and sits as an Executive Director of the British Neuropsychiatric Association. He is also the psychiatric member of the Ministry of Defence's Independent Medical Expert Group and Founding Member of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society.