Developmental Neuropsychiatry

Professor Eric Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King's College London.He trained in psychology at the University of Cambridge, subsequently pursuing medicine, neurology and neuropsychiatry at the Middlesex Hospital and then specializing in psychiatry of young people at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals. During a long career, he has worked variously as a clinician, researcher, teacher, and departmental chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London and the Maudsley Hospital; and for the Medical Research Council.

• 1: Scope and principles of neuropsychiatry in the young 2: Development and pathology of key functions 3: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 4: Autism Spectrum Disorders and Early Onset Psychoses 5: Tourette and learning impairments 6: Psychiatric consequences of brain syndromes 7: Genetic and environmental influences on early development 8: Psychological interventions 9: Drug treatments 10: From altered function to restriction of life