Quinton Deeley

Senior Lecturer and Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, King’s College London and National Autism Unit and Neuropsychiatry Brain Injury Clinic

Dr Quinton Deeley is a Senior Lecturer in Social Behaviour and Neurodevelopment at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, and a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the National Autism Unit and Neuropsychiatry Brain Injury Clinic. His interdisciplinary research explores the relationships between culture, cognition, brain function and behaviour, with particular interests in autism, social cognition, belief formation, psychosis, dissociation, hallucinations and religious experience. He combines clinical neuroscience with approaches from philosophy and anthropology, using methods including neuroimaging, EEG, phenomenological interviews and experimental approaches to cognition. He chairs King’s Cultural and Social Neuroscience Research Group and the Maudsley Philosophy Group.