Richard Brown is Professor of Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience and Head of Department of Psychology, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, and Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is a faculty member of National Institute of Health Research Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. He has worked extensively in the field of clinical neuroscience and his primary interest is the field of movement disorders and particularly Parkinson’s disease. He undertook his PhD with Professor David Marsden and worked for 10 year at the MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit, Queen’s Square. He has published over 200 scientific works on laboratory-based and clinical research and spanned a range of movement, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of brain disorder. His current work is focussed on depression and anxiety in Parkinson’s disease.