Professor Barbara J Sahakian, DSc, FBA, FMedSci Psychiatric disorders  is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She is also an Honorary Clinical Psychologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is a Past President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and the International Neuroethics Society, and was a Member of the International Expert Jury for the 2017 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Prize.

Professor Sahakian has an international reputation in the fields of psychopharmacology, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging and neuroethics. She is best known for her work on ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ cognitive deficits in depression, and early detection and early treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer’s disease. She has more than 400 publications in scientific journals and a Hirsch (h) index of 109.

She is co-author of Bad Moves and Sex, Lies and Brain Scans (see below), and has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics.