The Paykel Lectures, as they are now known, were established in 1988 by the then Head of Department, Professor Eugene S. Paykel. The lectures are hosted by the Department to honour someone who is internationally recognised to have made a major contribution to the field of academic psychiatry. That person is invited to give the annual Paykel Lecture.

The lecture series was renamed the Paykel Lecture Series in honour of Professor Paykel, following his retirement from Head of Department in 2001.

2016 Paykel Lecture

The 2016 Paykel Lecture will be given by David J Kupfer, MD, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine on Tuesday, 27 September 2016, from 5 – 7pm.

The  title of the Lecture is: “Biomarkers and the Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis”.

Previous lectures

A list of previous speakers and their lectures is given below. The Paykel Lecture is currently held in Michaelmas term (autumn) of each year on the Addenbrooke’s site. Details about the next Paykel Lecture will be advertised here in due course.

Year	Speaker	Lecture
2015	Dr Nora D. Volkow	Brain on Drugs: from Reward to Addiction
2014	Dr Oliver Howes	Dopamine: psychotic fire-starter? PET & MR imaging findings in the development of schizophrenia and implications for treatment
2013	Prof. Simon Lovestone	From shaggy to dickkopf; deconvoluting the amyloid cascade in Alzheimer’s disease (and some thoughts on why mice don’t get dementia but killer whales should)
2012	Prof. Eileen Joyce	The Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia:  Neural Basis and Clinical Relevance
2011	Prof. Guy Goodwin	The Bipolar Phenotype
2010	Prof. Peter Fonagy	Mentalization based Therapy – State of the Art
2009	Dr. Wayne C.  Drevets	Neurological Studies of Rewards Processing In Major Depression
2008	Prof. Eric Taylor	Impulsiveness and its pathology
2007	Prof. German Berrios	The Epistemology of Psychiatry
2006	Prof. Paul Harrison	Genes for schizophrenia and how they operate: what do we know and what does it mean?
2005	Prof. PJ Cowen	Recovering from depression: It’s not over when it’s over
2004	Prof. Simon Wessely	Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue – the story of the (?first) Gulf War Syndrome
2003	Prof. Jules Angst	The Mood spectrum: New Developments
2002	– No lecture –
2001	Dr. Myrna Weissman	How we began to study depression: a tribute to Eugene Paykel
2000	Prof. David Nutt	Imaging and Imagination in Anxiety
1999	Prof. Terrie Moffitt	Developmental Perspective on Anti-Social Personality Disorder: 25 years of Longitudinal Study
1998	Prof. Sir Robin Murray	Schizophrenia: Early Misconnections to Adult Misconceptions
1997	Prof. Peter McGuffin	The Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia
1996	Dr. Robert E. Kendell	The Environmental Contribution to the Aetiology of Schizophrenia
1995	Prof. George W. Brown	The Psychosocial Origins of Depression and Anxiety Disorders: Recent Evidence
1994	Prof. Sir Michael Rutter	Why do some People have so much Stress?
1993	– No lecture –
1992	Prof. Sir David Goldberg	The Psychiatry of General Practice: Altering a Filter to Mental Health Care
1991	Prof. Norman Krietman	Understanding the Epidemiology of Suicide
1990	Prof. George Winokur	The Correct Classification of the Manias and Depressions
1989	Dr. Elliot S. Gershon	The Scientific Revolution in Genetics and Psychiatry
1988	Prof. John K. Wing	What Care? Which Community?

 

These lectures are open to all. Lectures are is preceded by coffee, tea and biscuits, and followed by a reception with drinks and canapes.