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Anaesthetics Department, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK... 

Surprisingly there is only one placebo controlled trial conducted with people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. It took place at Northwick Park hospital in London and was published in 1986 (see Figure 6.1) (Crow et al. 1986). Relapse was defined as readmission to hospital or need for resumption of antipsychotic treatment. Follow-up... 

Consultant Pharmacist, Care of Older People, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow PCT and East South East England Specialist Pharmacy Services... 

David Lyons has an MD from Trinity College Dublin and an MS in applied physiology. He trained in clinical medicine and was an MRC Research Fellow and Senior Registrar in Respiratory Medicine at Northwick Park Hospital, London, and St. James s Hospital, Dublin. Dr. Lyons joined the National Drugs Advisory Board in 1993 and has been a member of the EMEA s Committee on Proprietary Medicinal Products since 1995. He was Chairman of the Mutual Recognition Facilitation Group during the Irish presidency of the EU. 

The Glycosciences Laboratory, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow, Middx. HA I 3UJ, U.K. Abbreviations... 

The Glycosciences Laboratory, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road,... 

Professor Ian K Wong qualified as a pharmacist in 1992. He worked at the former Medicines Control Agency on the Yellow Card system, at the David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy, Northwick Park Hospital and the University of Bradford. In 2002, Professor Wong set up the Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research in the School of Pharmacy, University of London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, University of London. His main research interests are paediatric drug safety and health service research. He was awarded a Department of Health Public Health Career Scientist Award in 2002 and Chemists and Druggists Pharmacy Practice Research Medal in 2004 for his research in paediatric medicines. 

Another area where an imbalance in neuropeptide levels has been implicated in illness is that of schizophrenia. In collaboration with Dr. T. Crow (Northwick Park Hospital), we are currently studying both the CSF and postmortem brain extracts from schizophrenic and control patients. Peptides screened by the HPLC-bio/radioimmunoassay approach include the enkephalins and endorphins, CCKg, VIP, LH-RH, TRH, and substance P. 

Urine samples. The urine samples analysed were from athletes competing in international fixtures in 1975 for which positive results for the 17a-methyl or 17a-ethyl containing anabolic steroids had been given by the radioimmunoassay screen. An investigation of the anabolic drugs was made following their administration to male volunteers (permission for these investigations to be carried out was obtained from the Northwick Park Hospital Ethical Committee). Urine samples we re collected for several days after administration. 

We are most grateful to the many secretaries who have typed drafts and the manuscript at various stages, particularly Miss D. Wood, Miss A. Morgan, Mrs L. Lester, Mrs M. Moriarty and Mrs J. Setchell, and also Mr A. C. S. Thomas, Mr M. J. Madigan and Mrs B. M. Tracey for their help in assembling the appendix of mass spectral and gas chromatographic retention data. The Department of Medical Illustration at the Clinical Research Centre has been responsible for some of the illustrations used. Any work on patients described in this book and obtained in our own laboratories was approved by the Ethical Committee of Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre. 

Currently he is a consultant physician at Northwick Park and St Mary s Hospitals (London, United Kingdom) and director of the Imperial College Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine and dean of the Faculty at Imperial College London. He is now involved mainly in clinical research on malaria and tuberculosis in London and in Mumbai, India and Cape Town, South Africa. 

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