Timothy J. Crow, M.B. B.S, Ph.D.

2000 Alexander Gralnick Award Recipient

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Dr. Crow after qualifying in Medicine at the Royal London Hospital, worked briefly at the Maudsley before doing a Ph.D. on central catecholamine neurons in the University of Aberdeen. He was the first to provide evidence that the ventral mesencephalic dopamine neurons are associated with reward and described age disorientation in chronic schizophrenia. He worked in the University of Manchester Department of Psychiatry and was appointed as the head of the Division of Psychiatry at the MRC Clinical Research Centre in 1974 where he remained for 20 years. While at the Division, with colleagues he established ventricular enlargement in schizophrenia (through the first CT scan investigation and post-mortem studies), and completed the flupentixol isomers trial, the Northwick Park ECT, the First Episodes of Schizophrenia and "Functional" Psychosis trials. Since 1994 he worked in Oxford on structural asymmetries in post-mortem brain and MRI scans in adolescent onset psychosis, on childhood precursors of psychosis (e.g. dyslexia) and on the genetics of the Xq21.3/Yp region of homology. Dr. Crow was the recipient of the Arthur P. Noyes Award for Schizophrenia, The Lieber Prize, the Research Prize of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (shared with C.B. Nemeroff) and the Sommer Medal.