Rick Adams Ch.B., M.B., Ph.D

Dr Rick Adams did a Medicine and Neuroscience BSc at Cambridge University and Clinical Medicine at UCL.

Dr Rick Adams worked as a medical and psychiatric doctor from 2004-10, obtaining my MRCP and MRCPsych.

From 2009-10 I did an MSc in the Philosophy of Mental Disorder at KCL.

From 2010-14, I did my PhD at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at UCL, supervised by Prof Karl Friston.

From 2014-18, I was an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at UCL (Division of Psychiatry and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience), in Prof Jon Rosier's group.

In 2016 I took up a Bogue Fellowship to study at Yale University in Dr Alan Anticevic's group. I've also enjoyed fruitful collaborations with Prof Oliver Howes (KCL, Imperial), Prof Neil Burgess (UCL) and Prof Mark Edwards (St. George's).

I am now a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist and MRC Skills Development Fellow in Prof Janaina Mourao-Miranda's group in the Dept of Computer Science and Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research.

Since 2016 I have been a member of the Gatsby/Wellcome Neuroscience Project, whose goal is to update the neuroscience content of the training curriculum for psychiatrists in the UK.