- Trevor Robbins
Professor Trevor Robbins FRS FMedSci is Head of the Department of
Experimental Psychology at theUniversity of Cambridge , and a fellow ofDowning College, Cambridge .He was appointed in 1997 as the Professor of
Cognitive Neuroscience , and was elected to the Chair ofExperimental Psychology (and Head of Department) from October 2002. He is also Director of the recently-established Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, the main objective of which is to inter-relate basic and clinical research in Psychiatry and Neurology for such conditions asParkinson’s ,Huntington’s , andAlzheimer’s diseases,frontal lobe injury ,schizophrenia ,depression ,drug addiction and developmental syndromes such asattention deficit/hyperactivity disorder .Robbins is a Fellow of the
Royal Society , theBritish Psychological Society , and theAcademy of Medical Sciences . He has been President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (1992-1994) and he won that Society’s inaugural Distinguished Scientist Award in 2001. He was also President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology from 1996 to 1997. He has edited the journalPsychopharmacology since 1980 and joined the editorial board of Science in Jan. 2003. He has been a member of theMedical Research Council (UK) and chaired the Neuroscience and Mental Health Board from 1995 until 1999.He has been included on a list of the 100 most cited neuroscientists by the
Institute for Scientific Information . In all, he has published over six hundred papers in scientific journals and has co-edited three books (Psychology for Medicine: The Prefrontal Cortex; Executive and Cognitive Function, and Disorders of Brain and Mind).External Links
* [http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/pages/staffweb/robbins/ Robbins's profile at the University of Cambridge Department of Experimental Psychology]
* [http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?Trevor Robbins's profile at Cambridge Neuroscience]
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