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Secretary for Non-Clinical External Affairs: Dr Mohammed Shoaib, PhD
Newcastle University. Mohammed.Shoaib@newcastle.ac.uk
Secretary for Non-Clinical External Affairs until 2011
Mohammed Shoaib is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry at Newcastle University. For the past 16 years, he has been actively involved with the study of drugs of abuse in animals. Having completed his Ph.D. on the behavioural neurobiology of nicotine addiction under the supervision of Ian P. Stolerman, at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, his interests with other drugs were generated from my post-doctoral experience at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry, in Munich working with Dr. T.S. Shippenberg and at the Addiction Research Center in Baltimore, where he worked with Dr. Steve Goldberg. During this time his research was supported by postdoctoral and regular research grants from The Wellcome Trust (UK), the Medical Research Council (UK) and National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). Upon moving back to the Institute of Psychiatry London, he enjoyed my independence in the field as a grant-holder leading a research team working on multiple aspects of nicotine dependence. As a senior lecturer, he also took part in the teaching drug dependence as part of a Neuroscience Masters course as well as supervising Ph.D. students.
With his recent move to Newcastle University, he now enjoys the challenge and opportunity to collaborate with researchers in other fields, and he believes that such opportunities in the future will contribute greatly to his own interests in the neurobiology of drug abuse. For example, he has utilised functional magnetic resonance imaging to visualise the neurobiological events that accompany morphine and nicotine withdrawal in rats.
As a long term member of the BAP, he has actively participated and enjoyed the summer meetings, ever since his first attendance as a PhD student. He hopes to return all the generous encouragement and advice he has received from members at BAP meetings during his scientific career. In 1995 he was honoured to be awarded the BAP/SmithKline Beecham young psychopharmacologist prize.
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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