Vaughan completed his PhD on the cognitive neuropsychiatry of delusions with Peter Halligan and Hadyn Ellis in Cardiff before completing his DClinPsy at the Institute of Psychiatry in London where he completed his doctoral thesis on experimental models of functional neurological disorder with Quinton Deeley.

I am a neurologist who sees patients defying the hard edges set out by neurology, psychiatry and psychology in both my functional neurological subspeciality practice and my traumatic brain rehabilitation roles.

I am funded for research via an NRS fellowship, sit on the FND Society programme organising committee for the 2026 conference, was vice-chair of the new Scottish guidelines for FND, am vice chair of the ABN FND SIG and regularly speak at various acute medicine, spinal, obstetric and neurological conferences about FND and my subspecialist interest in chronic idiopathic urinary retention, also called Fowler’s syndrome. I am trustee chair for the Fowler’s syndrome UK charity.

Dr Hoeritzauer did her undergraduate MB BCh BAO at Queen’s university in Belfast with a semester in Humboldt University in Berlin and an intercalated degree in psychology at UCL.  She did her neurology training in Belfast and Edinburgh including a PhD looking at the Clinical Features and Prognosis of Scan-negative Uro-Neurological Disorders.  She currently works in Edinburgh as a consultant neurologist with an interest in acute and chronic idiopathic urinary retention and has recently been awarded an NRS Fellowship.  Dr Hoeritzauer is a principal of the Functional Neurological Disorders Reseach Group along with Professors Jon Stone and Alan Carson and Dr Laura McWhirter.

He completed his psychiatry training on the Maudsley Training Programme and his PhD in psychosis at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London. He was previously an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Clinical Lecturer and currently holds a Wellcome Award and an NIHR Postdoctoral Award to develop precision approaches to the early treatment of psychosis. He also leads international efforts to develop evidence-based guidelines for the diagnostic assessment of psychosis.

He lectures on neuropsychiatry and psychosis at the University of Oxford and King’s College London, supervises postgraduate students, and has taught on the King’s MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry.

A member of the BNPA for over a decade, he was elected Treasurer in 2024 and is committed to supporting the next generation of clinicians and researchers working at the interface of neurology and psychiatry.

I am a neurologist who often wonders whether I ought to have become a psychiatrist. With a long-standing clinical and research interest in traumatic brain injury (TBI), my work in this field in particular has shown me how wide-ranging and impactful neuropsychiatric symptoms are to patients.

I have worked in the multidisciplinary TBI clinic at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, for over 10 years, first as a trainee and now as a consultant. I have started a dedicated neuropsychiatry list within this clinic, in collaboration with neuropsychiatry colleagues.

I have a strong research background, conducting a wide range number of impactful translational studies in TBI. These have included investigations into novel brain stimulation methods for post-TBI cognitive rehabilitation and using novel PET tracers to identify early tau deposition after TBI. My current research program investigates the links between brain injury and systemic effects, and how they contribute to the neurological and psychiatric sequelae of TBI.

I am always trying to become more ‘psychiatrically’ minded in both my clinical practice and research program and believe that our patients benefit when psychiatrists and neurologists work closely together. I benefitted from attending the BNPA teaching weekend as an SpR in 2018, and have since contributed a session on TBI to the weekend in 2024. I have also authored a review on this topic, which was published in Nature Reviews Neurology in 2023. I have a lot of experience in organising conferences, having led the team that delivered the Frontiers in TBI conferences 2017-2018, and the first online Guarantors of Brain conference in 2021. I would really value this opportunity to bring the two specialities closer together and contribute to combined training.

A consultant of over 20 years experience in inner London, with liaison sub-specialisation. I am immediate past chair of the BMAs Medical Ethics and Medico-Legal committees.  As a member of the Agenda Committee for its Annual Representatives Meeting I was deeply involved in its 4 day meetings, as well as responding to the pandemic.  I have been a Trustee of a charitable fund involved in protecting the interests of Consultants in the NHS, as well as representing them at local and national levels for over two decades.

A past elected Board Member of the European Psychiatric Association, I have sat on its Scientific Programme Committee, planning its annual congress for 4 years.  Separately I sat on its Board of Education and the Publications Committee, developing web-resources, open on-line learning platforms, guidelines, and resources for members.

I have an interest in how functional and somatoform disorders as well as in the assessment of mTBI and post-trauma states.  I take part in multi-professional PDP groups with neuropsychologists, and European colleagues, bringing home the importance of diversity and multi-disciplinary approaches.

I worked for 15+ years as a consultant neuropsychiatrist, specialising in movement disorders, brain injuries, and genetic neuropsychiatry conditions. I’ve led a tertiary Huntington’s service in Northeast England for over a decade and transformed our research naïve department into a world-renowned centre for Huntington’s research. We conducted RCTs, open-label and observational trials, extending our portfolio in facilitating phase Ib trials. My commitment to multidisciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing has driven me to organise Northern Huntington’s and Great North Neuropsychiatry Conferences biennially. As an educator, I mentor future neuropsychiatrists and am affiliated with Newcastle University as an Honorary Lecturer. I continue to organise the Neuropsychiatry module for the Northern Deanery MRCPsych course and contributed to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ neuropsychiatry faculty as a former executive member and current regional speciality representative for Northeast England.

Jessica Fish is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow and clinical psychologist at St George’s Hospital, London. After an initial degree in psychology from the University of Exeter (2004) she completed a PhD focussed on prospective memory in people with acquired brain injury at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit (University of Cambridge, 2008) and a postdoctoral fellowship at the same unit (2007-10), before moving to London for clinical psychology training (King’s College London, 2013).

Since qualifying she has worked clinically in Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders (South London & Maudsley NHS Trust), the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust), and the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre (St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust). She also held academic and related roles at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London before moving to the University of Glasgow, where she is now Senior Lecturer, contributing as Academic Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Research Director for the Applied/Clinical Neuropsychology programmes. Her research interests primarily relate to the cognitive and emotional consequences of acquired brain injury, and their rehabilitation.

Outside these roles, Jess is an Executive Editor of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, an Editorial Board member for Brain Impairment, and Chief Editor of The Neuropsychologist, periodical of the BPS Division of Neuropsychology, for which she also serves as Communications Officer. She is on the scientific advisory panel for Encephalitis International, and is a member of the committee of the Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Special Interest Group of the World Federation of Neuro-rehabilitation.

My work centres on the way emotion processing is altered in a range of clinical conditions including anxiety, autism, PTSD and psychosis. In addition, I am interested in how aberrant emotional processing can shape cognition to augment fear memory and alter attention.
The brain and the body are intrinsically and dynamically coupled, and my work investigates how signals from the body, with a particular focus on the heart, can interact with the brain to guide how we think and feel. I investigate emotion-cognition interactions in a variety of different ways, measuring both peripheral signals (using psychophysiology, such ECG) and centrally (e.g. fMRI).

I collaborate with psychiatrists and neurologists to understand the interoceptive mechanisms underlying aberrant emotion processing in clinical and neurological conditions. My research is fully translational, mapping out basic mechanisms with a view to informing evidence based novel treatments.

After completing core psychiatry training Talia worked as the national neuropsychiatrist for the adult Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Neuropsychiatry Clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and as a member of the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Care UK psychosocial working group, funded by the Duchenne Research Fund. She also worked as an SpR at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the CAMHS psychiatry department within the Autism Spectrum service and the national neurodevelopmental 22q11 Deletion Syndrome Clinic.

Talia completed her Medical degree (MBChB) at the University of Birmingham in 2017 and holds an intercalated BA in Medical Humanities from the University of Bristol.

Cam trained in Medicine and Psychology at Cardiff University, where work at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics sparked his interest in rare genetic variants and neuropsychiatric disorders. He later joined the Academic Foundation Programme, undertook clinical and research fellowships in neurology at Queen Mary University of London and the Royal London Hospital, and completed a Master’s in Genomic Medicine at the University of Cambridge.

Cam’s PhD explores how genomic risk contributes to neuropsychiatric conditions, particularly psychotic disorders. His work combines genetics, cognition and neurophysiology to understand how genetic variation shapes brain function and clinical outcomes. His wider interests include the neuropsychiatric aspects of encephalitis and Parkinson’s disease.

Alongside research, he teaches on King’s MSc programmes in Clinical Neuropsychiatry and Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology. He is keen to support trainees interested in neuropsychiatry, and hopes to see more integrated training pathways across neurology and psychiatry.

His research interests focus on memory disorders in epilepsy, disorders of visual imagery and attitudes to the relationship between mind and brain.

He is the author of ‘Consciousness: a user’s guide’ and ‘A Portrait of the Brain’, both published by Yale UP. He was Chairman of the BNPA from 2008-2011.

From an early age Alwyn Lishman was intent on being a musician but set this aside and enrolled as a medical student at Birmingham University. He soon found that he had made the right choice. Early on he took an intercalated degree in Anatomy and Physiology in Professor Solly Zuckerman’s department which set the stage for an enduring interest in the brain in relation to cognition and behaviour.

Upon qualifying he spent two years in obligatory national service at the army hospital for head injury at Wheatley near Oxford. There he came under the influence of the neurologist Professor Ritchie Russell and, on obtaining his Membership of The Royal College of Physicians, he was promoted to Junior Specialist in Neurology. On demobilisation he obtained further experience of neurology at The Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, also with Professor Russell.

Thereafter he decided to sample psychiatry and was encouraged to do so by Professor Aubrey Lewis at The Maudsley Hospital in London. The decision to write his medical doctorate on records held in the attic of the Churchill Hospital, concerning soldiers who had sustained penetrating head injuries during the 2nd word war, brought him back into contact with neurology and with Oxford in the course of visits to and fro.

After completing psychiatric training he was appointed Consultant in Psychological Medicine at the National Hospital, Queen Square, and later at The Hammersmith Hospital’s Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He then retuned to The Maudsley and joined the consultant staff, ultimately becoming Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. His clinical experience in these various settings led to the writing of his major publication -“Organic Psychiatry: The Psychological Consequences of Cerebral Disorder”, initially published in 1978. This was the first comprehensive account of how medical conditions can affect brain function and thereby come to the attention of psychiatrists. It quickly became indispensable to students of psychiatry and neurology alike and firmly established neuropsychiatry as a modern discipline. Two further single author editions followed. The fourth and most recent was updated in 2009 by a group of younger colleagues at the Institute of Psychiatry.

Research was almost an integral part of experience at The Maudsley at the time, not least because of the number of first class trainees eager to work towards higher degrees. He initiated extensive studies of memory including interactions between memory, emotion and personality variables and also investigations into possible anomalies of cerebral organisation in psychotic Illness.

The advent of brain imaging, along with refinements in clinical psychology, brought major new opportunities for research in neuropsychiatry. Efforts were made towards automation of scan analysis and detailed attention given to brain damage in patients with alcoholism and patients with schizophrenia.

During his time at The Maudsley and Institute of Psychiatry, Professor Lishman became an international influence in the field of neuropsychiatry. Locally, he supervised numerous research students and trained many of our present day leading neuropsychiatrists. His wide-ranging travel, to teach and lecture in many countries, brought valuable relationships with colleagues and first-hand experience of recent developments. In addition, he served on the majority of scientific committees and grant giving bodies. During his time on the Neurobiology and Mental Health Board of the Medical Research Council in the 1970s, he argued strongly and successfully for a resurgence of interest into fundamental aspects of research in the dementias.

In the 1980’s Jonathan Bird drew attention to the need for a neuropsychiatry association to stimulate interactions between neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and laboratory workers in the neurosciences. This was set up by a small group of friends in 1987 with Professor Lishman as founder chairman and it has thrived conspicuously ever since under a succession of leaders. There are now several such associations in other countries including the International Neuropsychiatric Association, but it would seem that the UK can claim to have produced the first.