Barbara J Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry and at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and co-inventor of the Cambridge Cognition CANTAB computerized neuropsychological tests and the Peak Wizard memory game and Advances Training Plan. She is co-author of Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs (OUP, 2013), with Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta, and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics (OUP, 2011), with Judy Illes. Barbara J. Sahakian became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017

Julia Gottwald is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Psychiatry at the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She has a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and holds academic degrees in Biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin and Neuroscience from the University of Oxford. She is very active in the public communication of science, through events such as Pint of Science and the Cambridge Science Festival, and was awarded the BAP Public Communication Prize 2016.

Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science

• 1: How Does Neuroscience Impact Society?


• 2: Can Neuroscientists Read Your Mind?


• 3: A Racial Bias Hiding in Your Mind?


• 4: The Perfect Lie Detector?


• 5: How Moral is Your Brain?


• 6: Are You in Control?


• 7: Show Me Your Brain and I Know What You Buy?


• 8: Where Does this Leave Us?


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