Dr Georges Iskandar
GMC/GDC number:
7449341
Please note that this consultant does not offer direct consultations to patients. Other consultants may refer to them to seek their expertise in your treatment.
Professional background
Consultant anaesthetist at UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
Lead for visiting doctors at the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
Hon lecturer at UCL Clinical Education & Health Psychology Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Training in Florence and UCLH
Special interest in Anaesthesia for Endocrine and Bariatric Surgery
Languages: Italian, English, Arabic and French
Research interests
Psychopharmacology and pharmacokinetics of anaesthetic drugs, perioperative medicine
Languages spoken
Italian, Arabic and French
Publications
Pharmacological modelling of dissociation and psychosis: an evaluation of the Clinician Administered Dissociative States Scale and Psychotomimetic States Inventory during nitrous oxide (‘laughing gas’)‐induced anomalous states
March 2022
Psychopharmacology
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-022-06121-9
Rewarding subjective effects of the NMDAR antagonist, nitrous oxide ('laughing gas') are moderated by impulsivity and depressive symptoms in healthy volunteers
March 2021
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 24(7), 551-561 Follow journal
DOI: 10.1093/ijnp/pyab009
Ketamine can reduce harmful drinking by pharmacologically rewriting drinking memories
November 2019
Nature Communications 10(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13162-w
An assessment of rapamycin for weakening binge-eating memories via reconsolidation: a pre-registered, double-blind randomised placebo-controlled experimental study
November 2019
Psychological Medicine
DOI: 10.1017/S003329171900312X
Reduction in the occurrence of distressing involuntary memories following propranolol or hydrocortisone in healthy women
May 2019
Psychological Medicine 50(7):1-8
DOI:10.1017/S0033291719001028
Ketamine reduces alcohol consumption in hazardous drinkers by interfering with the reconsolidation of drinking memories: Preliminary findings
January 2019
European Neuropsychopharmacology 29:S486-S487
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.11.728
High-flow nasal oxygen therapy in intensive care and anaesthesia
January 2018
BJA British Journal of Anaesthesia 120(1):18-27
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2017.11.010