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Past President: Professor Gavin Reynolds, PhD
Queen’s University Belfast. g.reynolds@qub.ac.uk
President-elect until 2008, President until 2010, Past-President until 2012
Gavin Reynolds is Professor of Neuroscience at Queen’s University Belfast, based in the Department of Psychiatry.
Following a PhD in biochemistry, he did post-doctoral work in London and Vienna, continuing with post-mortem studies in neuropsychiatric disorders and investigations of the pharmacology of antipsychotic drugs with the MRC in Cambridge. Since 1985 he held academic posts at the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield until moving to Belfast in 2004. He has been a member of BAP for almost 30 years and previously served as Meetings Secretary (2001-2004).
He has a research group concentrating primarily on the pathology of neurotransmitter systems in psychiatric disorders and on the receptor mechanisms of antipsychotic drug action, publishing approximately 270 papers in these research fields. Recent research has included defining selective GABAergic neuronal deficits in schizophrenia and undertaking pharmacogenetic studies, identifying genetic predictors of weight gain and symptom response following antipsychotic drug treatment.
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23rd August 2010
New BAP Education web page describing InVivoStat: The Statistical Tool for all Psychopharmacologists. Click here to read more InVivoStat - Information for the Public on
4th August 2010
We are pleased to launch our Public Web Pages. These are intended for members of the public with an interest in psychopharmacology. Public Web Page - Review of Mental Health Research on
5th July 2010
In 2009, BAP contributed to the Medical Research Council’s Review of Mental Health Research. The Report has recently been published. A summary report may be found here; MRC Mental Health Research Summary Report. Professor Barbara Sahakian, who will become BAP President-elect later this month, has written an article in the Lancet “A UK strategy for mental health and wellbeing”, also available here; Lancet article