Professor Philip Asherson

Professor of Molecular Psychiatry at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. Philip’s research interests include genetics of ADHD and related neurodevelopmental disorders; clinical and genetic studies of ADHD in adults; mapping genes in common complex neuropsychiatric disorders; functional studies aimed at delinating the brain processes that mediate genetic risk on ADHD.