Dr Neil Harrison - DoM Seminar Series. Friday 20th April 2018 at 13:00-14:00
DoM Seminar Series - Frontiers in Medical Sciences
Host: Professor Jo Cambridge, Centre for Rheumatology, UCL
2nd floor Seminar, Rayne Building, Bloomsbury, WC1E 6JF
Dr Neil Harrison: "Immune influences on mood, motivation and cognition: The emergence of Immunopsychiatry”
Please contact Sophie Oliver-Styller for all enquiries: s.oliver-styller@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Neil Harrison is Reader in Neuropsychiatry and Neuroimaging and Head of the Immunopsychiatry Group at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. Prior to moving to Sussex he completed a PhD in Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging (UCL), and psychiatry training at the Maudsley Hospital and National Hospital for Neurology, Queen Square. His research investigates how changes in bodily physiology particularly, infection/inflammation interact with the brain to modulate emotion, motivation and cognition and contribute to common mental illnesses such as depression, chronic fatigue syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease.
Refreshments will be available, therefore the kitchen area will be closed from 13:00 to 14:00