Articles about 'Barbara Sahakian'

A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this week.

Researchers believe findings could help the many individuals for whom anti-depressants offer little or no relief

Research suggests that the main cause of the disorder may lie instead in structural differences in the grey matter in the brain.

Test could be used as an inexpensive screening tool to facilitate early intervention.

Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge, has been researching cognitive enhancers for over a decade. Here she discusses the emergence of ‘smart drugs’ and the ethical and practical issues they raise.

Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from Cambridge and Pittsburgh have found.