Brain Talk with Andrew Lees

PROFESSOR ANDREW LEES studied medicine at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he was awarded the Jonathan Hutchinson Prize for Clinical Medicine, and then trained as a Neurologist at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, University College London Hospital and at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, where he was appointed consultant at the age of 33. He was director of the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, an institution dedicated to research into neurodegenerative diseases. He co-founded the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders (QSBB). He was predominantly responsible for the introduction of Apomorphine to treat complications of advanced Parkinson's disease. He is the author of a number of books including Ray of Hope (a biography of the footballer Ray Kennedy), Mentored by a Madman-The William Burroughs Experiment and Brainspotting.