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Episode title: On career, research, and the renaissance of psychedelics with David Nutt

Interviewee: David Nutt, United Kingdom
David Nutt, DM, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, DLaws, is a psychiatrist and the Edmund J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology in the Division of Brain Science, Dept of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London. To study the effects of drugs in the brain he uses state of the art techniques such as brain imaging with PET and fMRI plus EEG and MEG. This research output has led to over 500 original research papers outs him in the top 0.1% of researchers in the world. He has also published a similar number of reviews and books chapters, eight government reports on drugs and 35 books, including one for the general public, Drugs: without the hot air, that won the Transmission Prize in 2014. He was previously President of the European Brain Council, the British Association of Psychopharmacology, the British Neuroscience Association and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is currently Founding Chair of DrugScience.org.uk and holds visiting Professorships at the Open University and University of Maastricht. David broadcasts widely to the general public both on radio and television. In 2010 The Times Eureka science magazine voted him one of the 100 most important figures in British Science, and the only psychiatrist in the list. In 2013 he was awarded the John Maddox Prize from Nature/Sense about Science for standing up for science and in 2017 a Doctor of Laws hon causa from the University of Bath.

Interviewer: Aiste Lengvenyte, France
Dr. Aiste Lengvenyte is a psychiatrist and researcher at the CHU Montpellier in Montpellier, France. She is currently a member of the ECNP Early Career Academy Board and is also a member of the ECNP Depression Meta Network. Her primary interests are the relationship between inflammation and suicidal behaviours, mood disorders, and stress pathology in general.