Roles: Deputy Vice Chancellor

Professor of Neuropsychology

Telephone: 01248 383670

Email: o.turnbull@bangor.ac.uk

Office: Professors Corridor, Main Arts Building

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver_Turnbull2

Prof Turnbull is a neuropsychologist, with an interest in emotion and its many consequences for mental life. He is also a clinician, whose work is with patients with neurological lesions, especially those who have suffered cerebro-vascular accident (stroke) and traumatic brain injury.

His scientific  interests include:

(i) emotion-based learning, including the experience that we describe as 'intuition'

(ii) the role of emotion in delusional beliefs, especially in neurological patients

(iii) the neuroscience of psychotherapy

(iv) the management and control of emotion, often called emotion regulation

(v) emotion memory, and its preservation even in profound amnesia.

He is the author of roughly 200 publications on these topics, and (together with Mark Solms) is the co-author of the popular science book 'The Brain and the Inner World' (now translated into 12 languages), and 'Mistakes in Clinical Neuropsychology' (with Christian Salas and Rudi Coetzer).

  • Professional: Chartered Clinical Psychologist
    British Psychological Society, 2004
  • PhD: The neuropsychology of object constancy
    Cambridge University, 1991–1994
Any topics linked to the neuropsychology of emotion, especially as regards emotion regulation, memory and executive function.

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  • PublishedDepth psychological consequences of brain damage.
    Turnbull, O. H., Solms, M. & Panksepp, J. (Editor), 1 Jan 2003, A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry. 2003 ed. John Wiley & Sons, p. 571-596
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedDirect versus indirect emotional consequences on the Iowa Gambling Task.
    Berry, H. E., Turnbull, O. H., Berry, H. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Nov 2003, In: Brain and Cognition. 53, 2, p. 389-392
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedEmotion, false beliefs, and the neurobiology of intuition.
    Turnbull, O. H., Corrigall, J. (Editor) & Wilkinson, H. (Editor), 1 Jan 2003, Revolutionary Connections: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience. 2003 ed. Karnac Books, p. 135-162
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedGlossar
    Turnbull, O., 2003, Neuro-Psychoanalys: Eine Einführung mit Fallstudien. 2 ed. p. 285-296
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedMemory, amnesia and intuition.
    Turnbull, O. H., Solms, M. & Green, V. (Editor), 1 Jan 2003, Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis: Attachment Theory and Neuroscience. 2003 ed. Taylor & Francis, p. 55-85
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
  • PublishedReal versus facsimile reinforcers on the Iowa Gambling Task.
    Bowman, C. H. & Turnbull, O., 1 Nov 2003, In: Brain and Cognition. 53, 2, p. 207-210
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedResearch Digest: Affect, empathy, and self-awareness
    Turnbull, O. H. & Baird, J., 1 Jan 2003, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 5, p. 231-234
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedResearch Digest: Emotion, placebo and ethics in neuroscience
    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2003, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 5, p. 119-121
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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