Trevor William Robbins CBE FRS FMedSci was born on 26 November 1949 and is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and the former Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
24 Facts About Trevor Robbins
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Trevor Robbins is Director of the University of Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute.
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Trevor Robbins is an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and Past-President of the British Neuroscience Association, the British Association for Psychopharmacology and the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.
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Trevor Robbins is a keen chess player and represented both England Juniors in 1967 and the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate.
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Trevor Robbins was once ranked in the top twenty players in England and had one of his wins from a Varsity match in 1970 featured as a classic game in The Sunday Times.
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Trevor Robbins was appointed as a Demonstrator in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in 1973.
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Trevor Robbins was promoted to Lecturer and Reader, before becoming Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in 1997.
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Trevor Robbins was elected to the Chair, and therefore Head of Department, of Psychology in October 2002, stepping down from the latter role in 2017.
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The focus of Trevor Robbins' work is on the functions of the frontal lobes of the brain and their regulation by the chemical neurotransmitter systems in humans and other animals.
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Trevor Robbins employs psychological paradigms for investigating cognitive functions, including planning, decision making, learning, attention and self-control, often with brain imaging.
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Trevor Robbins's research covers the mechanisms underlying possible cognitive enhancing effects of drugs and understanding the causation and neural basis of drug addiction and impulsive-compulsive behaviour.
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Trevor Robbins is director of the institute, which focuses on translational work leading to the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Trevor Robbins has consulted for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the state of UK research.
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Since 2005, Trevor Robbins has been a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Trevor Robbins has published over 850 full papers in scientific journals, including Nature, Brain, Science and Nature Neuroscience.
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Trevor Robbins is credited as one of the top cited authors in Neuroscience.
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Trevor Robbins has been an editor of the journal Psychopharmacology since 1980, is a Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Science, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
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Trevor Robbins has co-edited 7 books, including Psychology for Medicine, The Neurobiology of Addiction and Decision Making, Effect and Learning.
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Trevor Robbins' research uses neuropsychological tests, such as the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery, which he co-invented with Professor Barbara Sahakian in the 1980s.
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Trevor Robbins serves as a Senior Consultant to Cambridge Cognition, a spin-out of the University of Cambridge.
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Trevor Robbins is a co-author of the neurochemical Functional Ensemble of Temperament model that mapped the functional roles of brain neurotransmitters to main aspects of behavioural regulation.
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Trevor Robbins has frequently appeared in press interviews to discuss his research such as The Guardian, BBC News, The Daily Express and the Naked Scientists podcast.
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Trevor Robbins frequently engages the public in science, such as speaking at the Hay Festival and participating in a feature on smart drugs for BBC Online.
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Trevor Robbins's work was acknowledged by the following honours and awards:.