Anthony David (neuropsychiatrist)

Professor David studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in 1980.[1] Subsequently he had trained in neurology, then psychiatry.

He has been an honorary consultant at the Maudsley Hospital, London, since 1990, and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, in 1996.

He has a wide range of professional and research interests and has published on schizophrenia, neuropsychiatry, medically unexplained syndromes and neuroimaging – both structural and functional – and specialises in research into insight (awareness of illness) in schizophrenia and other disorders.

Professor David is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and a founder member of both the British Neuropsychological Society and British Neuropsychiatry Association; he is currently Chairman of the latter. He is also an Emeritus Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).[2]

He is co-editor of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, and has published several academic books and one for the general reader published in February 2020, 'Into the Abyss: a neuropsychiatrist's tales of troubled minds' (Published by Oneworld).

• David, Anthony S.; Cutting, John C., eds. (1994). The neuropsychology of schizophrenia. Brain, Behaviour and Cognition Series. Hove, UK Hillsdale, USA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. ISBN 9780863773037.
• David, Anthony S.; Ron, Maria A. (1999). Disorders of brain and mind: volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521778510.
• David, Anthony S.; Kircher, Tilo (2003). The self in neuroscience and psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511205118.
• David, Anthony S.; Amador, Xavier Francisco (2004). Insight and psychosis: awareness of illness in schizophrenia and related disorders (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781417599912.
• David AS, Fleminger S, Kopelman M, Lovestone S, Mellers J (Eds). Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry: A Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (Revised 4th Ed). Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.
• David, Anthony S. (2020). Into the Abyss: a neuropsychiatrist's tales of troubled minds. ISBN 978-1786077059.

• UCL