Dr Sue Wilson & Prof David Nutt
Dr Sue Wilson, Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol Dorothy Hodgkin Building Whitson Street Bristol, BS1 3NY.
Prof David Nutt, Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine and Dean of Clinical Medicine and Dentistry, based at the University of Bristol.
Prof Nutt received his undergraduate training in medicine at Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, and continued training in neurology to MRCP. After completing his psychiatric training in Oxford, he continued there as a lecturer and then later as a Wellcome Senior Fellow in psychiatry. He then spent two years as Chief of the Section of Clinical Science in the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in NIH, Bethesda, USA. On returning to England in 1988 he set up the Psychopharmacology Unit in Bristol, an interdisciplinary research grouping spanning the departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology.
Prof Nutt is currently a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and Chair of its Technical Committee, as well as a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines. In addition, he is advisor to the British National Formulary, the editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology. He is President-elect of ECNP and the Past President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology.
Contributions to CNSforum by Dr Sue Wilson & Prof David Nutt:
28.02.2007
Promotion of sleep by targeting the orexin system in rats, dogs and humans
30.01.2007
Impaired declarative memory consolidation during sleep in patients with primary insomnia: Influence of sleep architecture and nocturnal cortisol release