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The Department of Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Brian Anderton  and
Robert Kerwin
Brian Anderton
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Robert Kerwin*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr R. Kerwin, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF.
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During the 1988/89 academic year the Department of Neuroscience was formed at the Institute of Psychiatry from the former Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology. The University agreed to the establishment of a new Chair of Neuroscience to accompany this academic initiative and to which Professor Brian Anderton was appointed in 1989. In 1989, a new Lecturer in Molecular Biology, Dr John Powell, was appointed as well as a Clinical Senior Lecturer jointly with the Department of Psychiatry, Dr Robert Kerwin; this latter post was a new post under the UFC New Clinical Appointments Scheme. These changes have led to a strengthening of the molecular and cellular neurobiological interests of this new department and will influence the future academic aims of the Department of Neuroscience and Institute of Psychiatry as a whole.

Type
Research Report
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 265 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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