Professor Barbara Sahakian FBA

Neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, neuroimaging and neuroethics. Focusing on cognition, motivation and their interaction in neurological and psychiatric disorders and brain injury.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Honours
CBE
Sections
Psychology

Current post

Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry and MRC

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Margaret Snowling FBA

Developmental disorders of language, learning and cognition including basic research on dyslexia and language impairment and the development and evaluation of interventions that ameliorate children’s literacy difficulties

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Professor Dr Dr h.c. Wolfgang Prinz FBA

Relationships between cognition, action and consciousness; contributions of social practices and discourses to structure and function of the human mind

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Professor Marcia Johnson FBA

Cognition and cognitive neuroscience: component processes of memory and cognition, reality/source monitoring (eg, distinguishing real from imagined events), executive function, emotion and cognition, the 'self' and cognition, aging and memory

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