P1vital Advisory Panel

P1vital’s Advisory panel is comprised of internationally renowned Psychopharmacologists and Neuroscientists with expertise in anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, cognition, obesity and addiction.

Professor Bill Deakin
Department of Psychiatry, University of Manchester

Bill Deakin has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester since 1990. His research interests are in developing new treatments for depression and schizophrenia based on imaging and other investigations of normal and pathological neurotransmitter function, particularly of the serotonin and glutamate systems in humans.

Professor Guy Goodwin
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Guy Goodwin has been W A Handley Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford since 1996. His research interests are in the treatment of bipolar disorder and the application of neuroscience in understanding the neurobiology of mood disorder and developing new treatments.

Professor Simon Killcross
Department of Psychology, Cardiff University

Simon Killcross is Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University.  His research interests are in brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory, and associative learning theory, the neural substrates underlying fear and anxiety and translational models of disorders such as schizophrenia.

Professor David Nutt
Psychopharmacology Unit , University of Bristol

David Nutt heads the Psychopharmacology Unit in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Bristol. The Unit integrates basic and clinical research to both study normal brain function, and to determine how it differs in psychiatric disorders such as depression. His research interests are in the psychopharmacology of anxiety, addiction and insomnia.

Professor Trevor Robbins
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

Trevor Robbins has been Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge since 1997 and Head of the Psychology Department at Cambridge since 2002. His research interests span the areas of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology.

Professor John Wilding
Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool

John Wilding is Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool's Aintree hospital His research interests are in the clinical management of obesity and diabetes, the neurobiology of obesity and the development of new treatments for obesity and metabolic disorders.

Professor Steve Williams
Department of Imaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry

Steve Williams is Professor of Imaging Sciences and Head of the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His research interests include the development of novel imaging methods for visualising CNS disorders and the translation of imaging methods from pre-clinical observations to the clinic.