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Hugo Critchley is a British professor of Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School a partnership of the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex

Early life and education
Critchley spent childhood years in Blackburn Lancashire. His father, Edmund Critchley worked a neurologist, and his mother Mair Critchley, nee Bowen, as a physician in nuclear medicine. Critchley went to the University of Liverpool, attaining degrees in Physiology (BSc 1987) and Medicine (MB ChB 1990). After a period as a junior doctor (intern) in Walton and Fazakerley Hospitals, he pursued doctorate training, studying cross-modal sensory processing in prefrontal cortex at the Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford (DPhil 1996). In 1995, Critchley entered training in psychiatry at St George's Hospital and then Kings College Institute of Psychiatry (now IoPPN) where he began using neuroimaging methods. In 1998, he moved to UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology to pursue research on mind-brain-body interactions, working between the Functional Imaging Laboratory (Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience) and the clinical Autonomic Unit at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He completed his general training as a neuropsychiatrist in 2003 and gained a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Clinical Science in 2004.

Career
Critchley was a principal at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience and group leader at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, before he was appointed Foundation Chair in Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2006. Critchley is Co-Director (with Prof. Anil Seth) of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and heads the Brighton and Sussex Medical School Department of Neuroscience. In 2013, Critchley was recipient of an Advance Grant from the European Research Council. Clinically, Critchley helped established a service for adult neurodevelopmental conditions in Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust where he works as a psychiatrist.

Publications
Critchley's research focuses primarily on mind-body-brain interactions. He has published widely on emotion, autonomic psychophysiology, interoception, and psychiatric symptoms. Critchley was included in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List that was published by Clarivate Analytics.

Contributions and recognition
Critchley is involved in the Academic Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and he has previously served as a member of the Council of the American Psychosomatic Society. In 2006, he received the Neal Miller award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine. In 2015, Critchley became a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and in 2017, he received the Paul D MacLean Award from American Psychosomatic Society.