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Psychosis: Our Default Mental State?

*Watch Online/In person*:Psychosis is a mental state where people experience a 'different' world. If, as clinical psychiatry and neuroscience suggests, it is our 'default mental state' why isn't everyone psychotic? Psychosis does not arise de novo; external sensory input and cognition actively inhibit its expression. This lecture provides an understanding on how thin the boundary is between sanity and madness and what leads from one to the other; and to appreciate the frailty of rational thought

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Professor Peter Woodruff was Professor of Psychiatry at Sheffield University in the UK from 1999 to 2015, where he set up and directed the internationally renowned Sheffield Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory (SCANlab) and where he continues as Visiting Professor. He was Chair of Psychiatry at Hamad Medical Corporation from May 2015 to 2020.

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Gresham College Barnard's Inn Hall Holborn EC1N 2HH

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