Hugo Critchley, DPhil, MRCPsych
- Chair in Psychiatry
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Bio
Hugo Critchley was appointed in 2006 as foundation Professor of Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, a new UK medical school founded in 2001. Hugo's research programme is supported by the Wellcome Trust and examines brain-body interactions combining functional neuroimaging with autonomic monitoring and patient studies. The research addresses central autonomic control, investigating the coupling of bodily responses with emotion and the influence of such integration on the expression of neurological, cardiovascular and psychological symptoms.
Hugo trained in Physiology and Medicine in the University of Liverpool and later received his doctorate degree working in Edmund Rolls's lab at the University of Oxford. He undertook specialist training in psychiatry at Institute of Psychiatry and then the Institute of Neurology in parallel with research fellowships in sponsored by Prof Chris Mathias (autonomic medicine) and Ray Dolan (neuroimaging of emotion). In 2004, he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science and became principal investigator at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL. Hugo is also a consultant psychiatrist with a clinical interest in the expression and management of neurodevelopmental disorders in adulthood. In 2006, Hugo received the President's Award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the Neal E. Miller Award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine.