Interests: Neuropsychopharmacology with special reference to neuropsychiatric disorders: epilepsy, its relationship to disturbances of behaviour and its treatment, and the effects of antiepileptic drugs and other treatment for epilepsy on the brain and behaviour. Other research and clinical interests include movement disorders and their treatment, especially the development of psychiatric disorders in Parkinson’s disease and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome.
Psychiatric disorders following accidents, including head injuries, dementia and the clinical interface between pseudodementia and dementia: and the spectrum of presentations in neurology and psychiatry of patients with medically unexplained neurological symptoms. Many such patients turn out to have one or other form of somatoform disorder.
Professor Trimble is an acknowledged expert with the syndrome Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, having set up an established the first national Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome Clinic in London, and having assessed and managed patients with the condition for thirty years. In the Clinic, over two thousand patients were evaluated over that time.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a Member of the Association of British Neurologists. Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American Neurological Association. Three Research degrees: MD (in medicine), Bsc (in neuroanatomy), and MPhil (in psychiatry).
Past council member of the British Association of Psychopharmacology, council member of the CINP between 1998 and 2001, Chairman of the British Neuropsychiatry Association 2001-2004, and currently Vice President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry.
His publications include two editions of Biological Psychiatry (1988 and 1996), John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, and six other single author titles dealing with the interface between neurology and psychiatry, especially in the field of epilepsy. He has edited 25 books covering similar areas.
His recent books include Somatoform Disorders – a medico-legal guide, Cambridge University Press 2004, the Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy edited with Professor B Schmitz, Cambridge University Press and Psychiatrische Epileptologie, Thieme, written with Professor B Schmitz. He is an Ambassador for epilepsy (International League Against Epilepsy Award), and recently received a life time achievement award from the International Neuropsychiatry Association.
