The conceptual history of body image and the self

Professor Michael R Trimble Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, and Honorary Consultant Physician to the Department of Psychological Medicine at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. Interests: Neuropsychopharmacology with special reference to neuropsychiatric disorders: epilepsy, its relationship to disturbances of behaviour and its treatment, and the effects of antiepileptic drugs and other treatment for epilepsy on the brain and behaviour. Other research and clinical interests include movement disorders and their treatment, especially the development of psychiatric disorders in Parkinson's disease and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome. Psychiatric disorders following accidents, including head injuries, dementia and the clinical interface between pseudodementia and dementia: and the spectrum of presentations in neurology and psychiatry of patients with medically unexplained neurological symptoms. Many such patients turn out to have one or other form of somatoform disorder. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a Member of the Association of British Neurologists. Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American Neurological Association. Three Research degrees: MD (in medicine), Bsc (in neuroanatomy), and MPhil (in psychiatry). Past council member of the British Association of Psychopharmacology, coun...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Genetics, Dementia, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Epilepsy and seizures, Movement disorders (other than Parkinsons), Neurological injury, Parkinson's disease, Trauma CNS / PNS, Child and adolescent psychiatry, Eating disorders, Memory disorders (psychiatr Source Type: research