Rethinking Depression Through Psychedelic Research

For those who missed Professor David Nutt at UCL on 30.01.18, here's an exclusive recording of his lecture! Join our Facebook group to stay updated on our upcoming events:   / 376160160489   About the speaker: David John Nutt is a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety and sleep. He was until 2009 a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit. Since then he has been the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. He was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and was President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. His book Drugs Without the Hot Air (UIT press) won the Transmission Prize for Communicating Science in 2014. David is an editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and is also the president of The European Brain Council. He was the clinical scientific lead on the 2004/5 UK Government Foresight initiative "Brain science, addiction and drugs" that provided a 25-year vision for this area of science and public policy. David broadcasts widely to the general public both on radio and television including BBC science and public affairs programmes on therapeutic as well as illicit drugs, their harms and their classification. He has been featured on Sky News, Al Jazeera, BBC Newsnight in addition to delivering a Ted Talk in Brussels. He also lecturers widely to the public as well as to the scientific and medical communities; for instance, has presented three time at the Cheltenham Science Festival and several times for Café Scientifiques. In 2010 The Times Eureka science magazine included him in the 100 most important figures in British Science, and the only psychiatrist. Find out more about him by reading his articles (https://www.theguardian.com/science/d...) or by following him on twitter (twitter.com/profdavidnutt). PsychSoc Committee xoxo