Department of Psychiatry

Name: Dr Sam Chamberlain, Ph.D. Job title: Psychiatric Trainee (CT2) and academic researcher (Ph.D.) Dr Chamberlain has completed a Ph.D. in the neurochemical and neural substrates of cognition. He is particularly interested in obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling). 1. Why did you choose psychiatry? It has been a source of befuddlement to me [...]

Name: Dr Tom Dening Job title: Clinical psychiatrist and academic psychiatrist in old age psychiatry Dr Dening is a clinical psychiatrist and researcher, with a particular interest in old age psychiatry. 1. Why did you choose psychiatry? I got hooked on psychiatry because I had a wonderful teacher during my psychiatry attachment. Then, as I [...]

Name: Prof. Peter Jones Job title: Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department. Professor Jones’ research works at the interface of population-based research, neuroscience and clinical psychiatry. He is both a clinical psychiatrist and academic researcher. His research principally focuses on understanding the causes, mechanisms and treatments for psychosis (particularly schizophrenia) dementia, depression and bipolar [...]

Name: Dr Paul Wilkinson Job title: University Lecturer & Honorary Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Undergraduate Psychiatry Speciality Director. Paul is both a clinical psychiatrist and academic researcher. His main research interest is the intermediate biology and cognitions of adolescent depression, in particular how such intermediate variables mediate associations between genotype, environment and disorder. [...]