Researcher biographies
Professor Eileen Joyce
Eileen Joyce is Professor of Neuropsychiatry at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. She is primarily interested in the neural basis of schizophrenia. Her research focuses on neurocognitive dysfunction in the early stages of schizophrenia and how it relates to both brain structural changes and clinical manifestations of the disorder.
Professor Joyce received a degree in psychology from the University of Cambridge where she also completed a PhD in dopamine psychopharmacology with Susan Iversen. This experience kindled her interest in psychiatry and she went on to study medicine at the School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge. She trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital.
She received a Wellcome Trust Lectureship in Mental Health and worked in Professor Alwyn Lishman's department at the Institute of Psychiatry. There she received clinical training in neuropsychiatry and research training in neuropsychology by studying alcoholic brain damage. After 18 months as a research associate at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), USA she became a senior lecturer and honorary consultant psychiatrist at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, which merged with Imperial College in 1997. Through her clinical practice, she became interested in the neuropsychiatry of schizophrenia and established a first episode research programme with her colleague at Imperial, Professor Thomas Barnes.
Contact
Dr Eileen Joyce
Department of Public Mental Health
Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Charing Cross Campus
St Dunstan's Road
London W6 8RP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8846 7336
Fax: +44 (0)20 8846 7380
E-mail:
e.joyce@ic.ac.uk
Professor Maria Ron
Professor Maria Ron is Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Neurology, University College London. Her research interests focus on brain abnormalities in psychosis and the psychiatric manifestations of neurological disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis, conversion disorder). The use of imaging has been central to her studies. The recent focus of her research has been the study of brain abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques (magnetization transfer and diffusion imaging).
Professor Ron trained as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and became a research worker at the Institute of Psychiatry where she completed her PhD on alcohol-related brain damage. She was then appointed as a Consultant to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Neurology, later to become Professor of Neuropsychiatry.
Contact
Professor Maria Ron
Department of Clinical Neurology
Institute of Neurology
University College London
12 Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG, UK
E-mail
m.ron@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Biographical information correct as at 20 August 2002.
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