Barbara Sahakian

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian
SpouseTrevor Robbins[1]
AwardsFellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2004)
F C Donders Chair of Psychopharmacology (2005)
Alfred Deakin Innovation Lecture (2008)
University of Pennsylvania Distinguished International Scholar Award (2009)
ICGP Senior Investigator Award (2010)
Doctor of Science (2015)
Fellow of the British Academy (2017)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Barbara Sahakian's voice
from the BBC programme The Life Scientific, 29 May 2012.[2]

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, CBE, FBA, FMedSci is professor of clinical neuropsychology at the department of psychiatry and Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge. She is also an honorary clinical psychologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.[3] She has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging.[4][5][6]

Sahakian is a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.[7] She is currently president of the International Neuroethics Society (INS), of which she is a founder member.[8] She is past president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP), having served as president from 2012 to 2014.[9]

  1. ^ "ROBBINS, Prof. Trevor Robbins". Oxford University Press. A & C Black. 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Barbara Sahakian". The Life Scientific. 29 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Profile: Barbara Sahakian". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Profile: Barbara Sahakian". Cambridge Neuroscience. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  5. ^ Barbara Sahakian publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Barbara Sahakian". Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Fellows of Clare Hall". Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  8. ^ "Professor Barbara Sahakian elected President of the International Neuroethics Society". Cambridge Neuroscience. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  9. ^ "Professor Barbara Sahakian - BAP Officer Profile". The British Association for Psychopharmacology. Retrieved 7 September 2014.