Trevor W. Robbins
Professor
Psychology
University of Cambridge
United States of America
Biography
Trevor Robbins was appointed in 1997 as the Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He was elected to the Chair of Experimental Psychology (and Head of Department) at Cambridge from October 2002. He is also Director of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), jointly funded by the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The mission of the BCNI is to inter-relate basic and clinical research in psychiatry and neurology for such conditions as Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Alzheimer's diseases, frontal lobe injury, schizophrenia, depression, drug addiction and developmental syndromes such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Research Interest
Cognitive Neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology
Publications
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Ito, R., Robbins, T.W. & Everitt, B.J. (2004) Differential control over cocaine-seeking behavior by nucleus accumbens core and shell. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 389-397.
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Aron, A.R., Robbins, T.W. & Poldrack, R.A. (2004) Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 170-177.
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Aron, A.R., Fletcher, P.C., Bullmore, E.T., Sahakian, B.J. & Robbins, T.W. (2003) Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 115-116.
