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As ever, our conference programme will address issues at the core of clinical practice in Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neurology, and showcase cutting edge research from around the world. The main symposia this year will focus on epilepsy, functional neurological disorders and global neuropsychiatry.

Speakers include Mike Kerr (epilepsy and intellectual disability); Alasdair Coles (religious experience and epilepsy); Jessica Eccles (hypermobility/POTs); Ingrid Hoeritzauer (functional urological symptoms); Dinesh Bhugra (neuropsychiatry in ethnic minority groups); Emily Holmes (treatment of PTSD amongst refugees, Facundo Manes (the huge burden of dementia in low and middle income countries) and Martha Farah (wealth, poverty and the brain).

Guest Lecture by Ed Bullmore (depression and brain inflammation) and the BNPA medal will be awarded to Karalyn Patterson (Cambridge) for her outstanding work on language disorders, especially semantic dementia. There will of course also be the excellent clinical research updates targeting key issues for everyday practice, and our conference will culminate in a highly-charged debate on the merits or otherwise of cognitive enhancement.

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• The neurobiological mechanisms of sleep and their disruption in brain disease – Russell Foster
• Sleep disorders – their diagnosis and management – Kirstie Anderson
• Insomnia, brain function and cognition – Eus van Someren
• Shell Shock and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Historical Review – Simon Wessely
• The past, present and future of PTSD – Chris Brewin
• Free energy principle, predictive coding and implications for neuropsychiatric disease- Karl Friston
• Cognitive dysfunction in frontal lobe epilepsy: a neuropsychometry and fMRI study – Lorenzo Caciagli
• Use of a nonverbal measure of attribution of intentions to characterize social cognitive deficits in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders – João Miguel Fernandes
• Memory over TIME: Long-term follow-up of accelerated long-term forgetting and autobiographical memory in
• Transient Epileptic Amnesia – Sharon Savage
• New genetic therapies for Huntington’s disease – David Craufurd
• Clinical applications of non-invasive brain stimulation – Camilla Nord
• Imitation and social interaction in autism – Antonia Hamilton
• Social cognition in dementia – Boyd Ghosh
• The role of the cerebellum in emotion and cognition – Jeremy Schmahmann
• Rhythm and Blues: what made us human? – Michael Trimble
• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World – Iain McGilchrist

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• Origins of neuropsychiatry/BNPA – Jonathan Bird
• Movement Disorders – James Parkinson’s Névrose – Andrew Lees
• Functional disorders – hysteria and the doldrum years – Jon Stone
• Epilepsy – the key that unlocked neuropsychiatry – Michael Trimble
• Computational neuropsychiatry – Ray Dolan
• Neurosurgical interventions in psychiatry – Brian Simpson
• Psychopharmacology – David Healy
• Brain reading – David Linden
• Psychiatry – Eileen Joyce
• Neurology – Adam Zeman
• Psychology – Gus Baker
• Neurobiology of addiction – Trevor Robbins
• Impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease – Valerie Voon
• Cognitive and behavioural effects of chronic alcohol excess – Killian Welch
• Apathy in brain disease – Sanjay Manohar
• Advanced neuroimaging of pain, analgesia and anaesthesia induced altered states of consciousness – Irene Tracey
• Neurobehavioural characteristics of limbic encephalitis association with voltage-gated potassium channel complex antibodies – Clare Loane
• Organic psychosis: using electronic patient records to investigate demographics, aetiology and outcome – Thomas Misselbrook
• A randomised controlled trial of deep brain stimulation in obsessive compulsive disorder: A comparison of ventral capsule/ventral striatum and subthalamic nucleus targets – Himanshu Tyagi
• Autoimmune encephalopathies – Sarosh Irani
• Mindfulness based interventions – Niels Detert
• Brain imaging after TBI – David Sharp
• Neural plasticity for functional rehabilitation after stroke – Nick Ward
• Concussion, chronic traumatic encephalopathy and dementia – what the newspapers say and what we really (don’t) know – Alan Carson
• Rescuing the injured brain – surgical trials in neurotrauma – Peter Hutchinson
• Dementia; thirty years back and forth – Martin Rossor
• In Sickness and In Power – Lord David Owen

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In Sickness and In Power” by The Rt Hon Lord David Owen, CH FRCP

British Neuropsychiatry Association – Published on 3 Oct 2017

BNPA Special Guest Lecture 2017 by Lord Owen, introduced by Alan Carson, based on his book “In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years”

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Dementia: 30 years back & forth. BNPA Medal Lecture 2017 by Martin Rossor

British Neuropsychiatry Association – Published on 3 Oct 2017

Professor Martin Rossor reviews progress in Dementia research over the last 30 years, with a particular focus on his contributions, before speculating on what the next 30 years might hold.

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• Thomas Frodl – Early life adversity, epigenetics and the stress response in depression
• Ted Dinan – Gut microbes and brain function: The Clinical Implications
• Peter Hammond – Face, brain and behaviour influenced by genetic anomaly and prenatal environment
• Sanjay Sisodiya – The genetics of epilepsy
• Phil Asherson – ADHD in children and adults
• Francesca Happé – Autism
• Tony Marson – The efficacy and effectiveness of new treatments for epilepsy
• Hugh Selsick – Sleep
• Thomas Bak – An overview of language
• David Linden – Formal thought disorder in schizophrenia
• Jonathan Schott – A clinical approach to Primary Progressive Aphasia
• Cathy Price – Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)
• Chris Frith – BNPA Medal Lecture Why two minds are better than one
• Alasdair Coles and Anil Seth – THE DEBATE Is there still room for a soul in the modern concept of the psyche

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• Joint meeting with the British Psychological Society’s Division of Neuropsychology, the UK Functional Symptoms Research Group & in collaboration with the Association of British Neurologists Cognitive Special Interest Group

DAY 1

• The ‘How’ and ‘Why’ of functional neurological symptoms and what to do about them
• Diagnostic Masterclasses on Cognition
• Alwyn Lishman Prize – Platform Presentations
• Neuropsychiatry Research Update

DAY 2

• Body Image and the Self
• BNPA Medal Lecture:
• John Hodges “The frontotemporal dementias: a neuropsychiatric perspective”
• Diagnostic Masterclasses on Functional Disorders
• May 2015 General Election Special: Darren Schrieber “Neuropolitics”

DAY 3

• Memory Disorders – not just about Alzheimer’s Disease
• Plenary: Anthony David “What do Imaging studies tell us about functional symptoms”
• JNNP lecture: John Duncan “The Neural Basis of general intelligence”
• The Debate: “Talk of Functional Neurological Symptoms (or Disorder) at best avoids the issue and at worse misrepresents it.”

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• New Developments in Cognition
• JNNP Guest Lecture – Presymptomatic treatment for the dementias
• Members’ Platform Presentations
• Neuropsychiatry Research Update
  Neuropsychiatric Manifestations/Encephalitis
  The Wellcome Trust Debate

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• Stress and the Brain
• Neuropsychiatry Research Update
• Epilepsy
• Consciousness

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• Huntington’s disease
• International Neuropsychiatry Association
• Neuropsychiatry research update
• Clinical neuroscience for the 21st Century – networks and rhythms in health and disease
• What the eye does not see

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• Sleep
• Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s Disease
• Neuropsychiatry and the New Genetics

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• Symposium on Disorders of Memory
• Encephalopathy and delirium, Head Injury
• Neuropsychiatry and the self

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• All you need to know about the limbic system
• Psychopharmacology in neuropsychiatric settings
• Tourette’s and OCD
• Mechansims of Psychosis
• Neuroscience and Society

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