MSc Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry
King's College London

	Claire Troakes Claire is a former MSc Neuroscience student who returned to the Institute, after obtaining her PhD, to become Co-ordinator for the MRC brain bank.
	Doris Stangl Doris completed the MSc Neuroscience programme in 2008 and has just completed her PhD in the Department of Neuroscience.
	Paul Oladimeji Paul, a former MSc Neuroscience student who completed the programme in 2009, is now studying for his PhD at Cranfield University.
	Some of the Class of 2009-2010 in the Small Lecture Theatre, the theatre in which all the lectures in the Fundamental modules were given.

About the Institute

In 1908, Dr Henry Maudsley offered £30,000 towards the establishment of a hospital for treatment of mental illness and for research and teaching in psychiatry; a similar amount from the London County Council enabled the Maudsley Hospital to be built. Dr Mott (later Sir Frederick Mott), director of the County of London Asylums Laboratory, who had put forward the idea 12 years earlier, moved his laboratory to the new hospital in 1914 and became its first director. Although the laboratories were functional, the hospital was immediately requisitioned for use by the Army during the First World war and was not released until 1923. Shortly afterwards, the laboratory and hospital became the Maudsley Hospital Medical School of the University of London.
At the end of the second world war, during which time the hospital and laboratories had relocated to various sites around London, Dr Aubrey Lewis was appointed to the Chair in Psychiatry and the University of London created a new school, the British Postgraduate Medical Federation (BPMF). Three years later in 1948, the Maudsley Hospital Medical School joined the BPMF as the Institute of Psychiatry. In the same year, the Hospital joined forces with the Bethlem Royal Hospital, which had moved to Beckenham in 1930 from what is now the Imperial War museum (Bethlem in 1896), to form a joint teaching hospital in the new National Health Service.
The Institute moved into the main building (see street view image) in 1967 and since that time other buildings have been built as it has continued to expand. The Henry Wellcome building, which is adjacent to the main building opened in 2001 and accommodates most of the Psychology department. The MRC Centre for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry moved into its new building in 2002, the neuroimaging researchers into the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences (CNS) and, most recently, some members of the Department of Neuroscience moved into the Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour (CCBB) in the new James Black Centre in 2007.