Barbara J. Sahakian

Research interests

Publications

• Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: Revised third edition recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

  Journal of Psychopharmacology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116636545

• Disorders of compulsivity: a common bias towards learning habits

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2014.44

• Disruption in the Balance Between Goal-Directed Behavior and Habit Learning in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  American Journal of Psychiatry · 2011 · 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10071062

• Grand challenges in global mental health

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/475027a

• The Roles of Dopamine and Noradrenaline in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

  Biological Psychiatry · 2011 · 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.02.036

• Probing Compulsive and Impulsive Behaviors, from Animal Models to Endophenotypes: A Narrative Review

  Neuropsychopharmacology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.185

• Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/456702a

• Differential effects of insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions on risky decision-making

  Brain · 2008 · 10.1093/brain/awn066

• Integrating evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies of obsessive-compulsive disorder: The orbitofronto-striatal model revisited

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.09.005

• Neurochemical Modulation of Response Inhibition and Probabilistic Learning in Humans

  Science · 2006 · 10.1126/science.1121218

• The neuropsychology of obsessive compulsive disorder: the importance of failures in cognitive and behavioural inhibition as candidate endophenotypic markers

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2005 · 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.11.006

• Neurocognitive enhancement: what can we do and what should we do?

  Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2004 · 10.1038/nrn1390

• Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans

  Nature Neuroscience · 2003 · 10.1038/nn1003

• Decision-making processes following damage to the prefrontal cortex

  Brain · 2002 · 10.1093/brain/awf049

• Differing patterns of temporal atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia

  Neurology · 2001 · 10.1212/wnl.57.2.216

• Methylphenidate Enhances Working Memory by Modulating Discrete Frontal and Parietal Lobe Regions in the Human Brain

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2000 · 10.1523/jneurosci.20-06-j0004.2000

• Choosing between small, likely rewards and large, unlikely rewards activates inferior and orbital prefrontal cortex.

  PubMed · 1999 · 10.1523/jneurosci.19-20-09029.1999

• Emotional bias and inhibitory control processes in mania and depression

  Psychological Medicine · 1999 · 10.1017/s0033291799001233

• Choosing between Small, Likely Rewards and Large, Unlikely Rewards Activates Inferior and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex

  Journal of Neuroscience · 1999 · 10.1523/jneurosci.19-20-09029.1999

• A study of performance on tests from the CANTAB battery sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction in a large sample of normal volunteers: Implications for theories of executive functioning and cognitive aging

  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society · 1998 · 10.1017/s1355617798455073

• Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB): A Factor Analytic Study of a Large Sample of Normal Elderly Volunteers

  Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders · 1994 · 10.1159/000106735

• Computerized assessment in neuropsychiatry using CANTAB: discussion paper.

  PubMed · 1992

• Extra-dimensional versus intra-dimensional set shifting performance following frontal lobe excisions, temporal lobe excisions or amygdalo-hippocampectomy in man

  Neuropsychologia · 1991 · 10.1016/0028-3932(91)90063-e

• Planning and spatial working memory following frontal lobe lesions in man

  Neuropsychologia · 1990 · 10.1016/0028-3932(90)90137-d

• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VISUOSPATIAL MEMORY AND LEARNING IN ALZHEIMER-TYPE DEMENTIA AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE

  Brain · 1988 · 10.1093/brain/111.3.695

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