ON LINE  REG: The British Neuropsychiatry Association Annual Conference

The British Neuropsychiatry Association

The British Neuropsychiatry Association (BNPA) Annual Conference Thursday 12th March and Friday 13th March 2026

ON LINE REGISTRATION: We’re excited to announce that the 2026 British Neuropsychiatry Association Conference will be held on 12–13th March at <a href="https://www.cavendishvenues.co.uk/venues/22-duchess-mews" title="https://www.cavendishvenues.co.uk/venues/22-duchess-mews" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Duchess Mews</a> in London.Don't miss out! Register NOW and take advantage of our Member Early Bird rates. 🐥Save by becoming a member <a href="https://bnpa.org.uk/membership/" title="https://bnpa.org.uk/membership/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">JOIN TODAY</a>We are pleased to say it will be a joint meeting with the Division of Neuropsychology and together we’ve developed a programme covering the latest developments and controversies in neuropsychiatry. Programme highlights:<ul><li>Prof Masud Husain delivering the BNPA Medal Lecture, drawing on his internationally acclaimed work in cognitive neurology to explore how disruptions of brain function affect identity, attention, memory, and motivation</li><li>Prof Jennie Ponsford delivering the JNNP Lecture on state-of-the-art advances in cognitive and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury, with a focus on long-term recovery</li><li>Prof Mike Kopelman receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award and reflecting on a career-defining contribution to the neuropsychiatry of memory, including amnesia, confabulation, and complex medicolegal cases</li><li>Dr Frank Farnham on the development and evolving remit of the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, followed by a multidisciplinary panel on fixation, radicalisation, and changing patterns of forensic risk in neuropsychiatry, with Dr David Okai, Dr Annemarie Burns, and Dr Czarina Kirk</li><li>What is the function of functional cognitive disorder? A major multidisciplinary panel on the evidence and controversies surrounding FCD, with Dr Veronica Cabreira, Dr Norman Poole, Dr Jeremy Isaacs, and Dr Sarah Cope</li><li>Prof Simon Shorvon on how evolving seizure and epilepsy classifications reshape our understanding of epilepsy and other neurological brain diseases</li><li>Prof Marco Mula on navigating the neuropsychiatric adverse effects associated with new-generation anti-epileptic medications</li><li>Dr Lucia Li on the new multi-axial consensus framework for evaluating traumatic brain injury severity, replacing the traditional ‘mild’, ‘moderate’, and ‘severe’ categories and better capturing neuropsychiatric outcomes</li><li>Dr Riccardo De Georgi separating hope from hype in a critical appraisal of whether GLP-1 receptor agonists (‘Ozempic-like’ medications) represent genuine emerging neuropsychiatric treatments</li><li>Prof Elsa Fouragnan and Dr Tom Gilbertson presenting frontier translational work on ultrasound neurostimulation and ultrasound-guided neurosurgery as potential future therapies in neuropsychiatry</li><li>Persistent disorders of consciousness in clinical practice, including Dr Alex Rose on assessing mood in PDoC and Dr Erika Molteni on the science and ethics of paediatric disorders of consciousness</li><li>Disorders of awareness in neuropsychiatry, with Dr Nele Demeyere on hemispatial neglect after stroke, Dr Jonathan Huntley on awareness in advanced dementia, and Dr Daniel Mograbi on new insights into anosognosia</li></ul><ul><li>The best of early career science in the Lishman Prize presentations</li><li>Present your neuropsychiatry research at our datablitiz poster sessions</li><li>The BNPA Thursday evening party</li></ul>…and many more sessions yet to be announced.Looking forward to seeing you there!

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