Dr Stone trained in Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine where he took an intercalated BSc in Neuroscience. After completing his medical degree, he specialised in Psychiatry, starting on the training scheme in Cambridge in 1998 and then moving to the Maudsley in 2000. He completed a PhD at the Maudsley hospital, investigating the role of glutamate in psychosis using single photon emission tomography and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Following this, he worked at Imperial College London as a Senior Lecturer, working as co-director of the intercalated BSc in neuroscience as well as continuing research into the role of glutamatergic abnormalities in psychosis. Between 2013 and August 2020, Dr Stone worked as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, with a focus on experimental medicine and clinical trials. During his time there he also set up the ketamine clinic at the Maudsley Hospital for patients with treatment resistant depression. Dr Stone moved to Brighton and Sussex Medical School as Reader in Psychiatry in September 2020.