TWELVE YEARS OF EXPLORING THE NEUROBIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER

PROFESSOR DAVID BALDWIN

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southampton

Professor Baldwin leads a group that aims to improve clinical outcomes in patients with mood and anxiety disorders. This involves investigating the role of neurobiological and psychological factors in causing and maintaining illness; through improving trial design when evaluating efficacy and tolerability of treatment interventions; by assessing the effectiveness and acceptability of treatment interventions in wider clinical practice; through identifying more accurately those patient groups at particular risk of poor outcomes; and by offering a specialist clinical service to patients with chronic and treatment-resistant conditions.

WATER STORIES: THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE AROUND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND HYDROCEPHALUS

MR. VASSILIOS TSITOURAS

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Wessex Neurological Centre

Mr Vassilios Tsitouras completed his undergraduate education at Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki. He then completed his neurosurgical training at the Hippocration Hospital and Mitera Hospital, Greece, under Mr Spyros Sgoursos. He has also completed paediatric fellowships in both Alderhey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Since then, he has worked as a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon in the UK, in both Manchester and Southampton. Due to his academic interests in CSF hydrodynamics, he has contributed to the International Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery's "Guide to Neurosurgery".