All are brain disorders: The pathology of mental symptoms.
Raad Shakir, CBE, MB, MSc, FRCP, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London University
- Can there be a serious mental disorder with a normal brain?
- How precise are we in diagnosis both in Psychiatry and Neurology?
- Comorbidity, co-existence or causality?
- Has the time come for precision medicine to prevail?
The answers are becoming clearer with a closer look at major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe depression. Functional neurological disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease have major psychiatric components with known brain pathology. The molecular basis of all brain disorders are being clarified.
Short Bio
*President South of England Neurosciences Association 2019-.
*President, World Federation of Neurology 2014-2018.
*Chief of Head and neck Services Imperial NHS Trust 2005-2016.
*Secretary-Treasurer General, World Federation of Neurology 2006-2013.
*Chair, ICD11 Neuroscience Topic Advisory Group WHO 2009-2019.
* Chair Tournament of the mind, WFN 2006-2014.
* Honorary consultant neurologist, Charing Cross Hospital, London.
