Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Open Access

Ray Dolan

University College London, UK

Biography

Ray Dolan is Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, at UCL.  His research addresses the neurobiology of emotion and decision making, how emotion impacts on cognition and its aberrant expression in disease.  He has published over  500 peer reviewed papers is among the most cited scientist in the world in the field of Neuroscience and Behaviour. He has received numerous awards including the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award (2004), the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award (2006), the International Max Planck Research Award (2007) and the Zülch Prize (2013).  Between 2010-2014 he has been Visiting Einstein Fellow to the Humboldt University, Berlin.  He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2010 and an External Member of the Max Planck Society (MPS) in 2012.  He recently established the first Centre for Computational Psychiatry at UCL, a joint venture with the Max Planck Society (MPS).

Research Interest

Bayesian estimation and inference in causal models of brain function.

Cognition and emotion

Multi-modal imaging in Epilepsy

Neurobiological mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, functional neuroimaging and psychopharmacology

Neuroimaging