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 | Allan Young
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Allan Young is Professor and Honorary Consultant in Psychiatry in the Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Co-Director of the Stanley European Bipolar Research Centre. Professor Young qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 1984. While training in psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh he achieved membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1988 and completed a Master's degree researching the brain in schizophrenia in 1990. After a period as a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, and Attached Worker to the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit, he took up the positions of Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, UK, and Clinical Research Fellow in the Psychopharmacology Research Unit, obtaining a PhD on the hormonal effects of serotonergic neuronal function in 1994.
Professor Young has received recent research grants from the Theodore and Vada Stanley Foundation for research into the role of 5-HT function in treatment resistant schizophrenia, and for the establishment of the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Research Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in May 1998. Professor Young is the author of numerous publications on subjects including the psychopharmacology of depression and the role of the HPA axis in psychiatric illness.
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