Barbara J Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry and MRC / Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She is also an Honorary Clinical Psychologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK. She is President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. She is a Founder Member and on the Executive Board of the International Neuroethics Society (INS). She has recently become President-Elect of the INS. She is co-author of Bad Moves. How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs. (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (Oxford University Press, 2011). |
The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (OUP Oxford, 2011)
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