Anne Lingford-Hughes is a British psychiatrist who is Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College London.
[citation needed] When she was training to become a psychiatrist, she was encouraged to study the Γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) in schizophrenia.
[2] Lingford-Hughes pioneered the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to characterise dopamine, GABA benzodiazepins and NK1 receptors in alcoholism and opiate dependence.
[1] She was elected Secretary of the British Association For Psychopharmacology, where she wrote guidelines on the management of substance misuse.
[1] Lingford-Hughes has studied neural responses to detoxification of methodone, and the impact of baclofen on people with alcoholism.