Seminar: What keeps us awake? The role of the locus coeruleous

Medical Imaging Unit Guest Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Elemer Szabadi, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Nottingham

Elemer Szabadi is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Nottingham. He was trained in Medicine at Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest. He has post-graduate clinical qualifications in neurology (DipNeurol) and psychiatry (FRCPsych), and research qualifications in neuropharmacology (PhD, DSc). He has held clinical academic appointments since 1965 in Budapest, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Nottingham. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department at the University of Nottingham.

In 2004, he retired from his University appointment, but continues in full-time research as Professor Emeritus. He is also continuing to provide a clinical assessment service in Neuropsychiatry. His current research interests are in the field of psychopharmacology (sleep/arousal mechanisms and autonomic regulation in humans, neurobiology of timing in experimental animals).

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