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Personal Information
	Name	Robertson, Ian H
	College Address	Psychiatry, Trinity Centre, S J H
	Main Department	Psychology
	College Title	Professor
	E-mail	ian.robertson@tcd.ie
	College Tel	+353 1 896 2684
	Web	http://people.tcd.ie/iroberts


Biography
Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and was the founding Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Previously a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, where he was also a fellow at Hughes Hall, Ian Robertson continues to be a Visiting Professor at University College London, University of Wales at Bangor and is a Visiting Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto. A graduate of Glasgow University, he gained his Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of London. His research focusses on the neuropsychology of brain rehabilitation and attention: he has more than 200 published books and articles in this field. A former science writer for the London Times, his multiply-translated popular science books are Mind Sculpture and the Mind's Eye.


Professional Qualifications

Qualification	Institution	Class of Degree	Title of Dissertation	Date Conferred
BSc (Hons) in Psychology	University of Glasgow			1973
MPhil in Clinical Psychology	Institute of Psychiatry, University of London			1978
PhD in Neuropsychology	University of London			1988
MRIA				2004
FBPsS				1989

Representations

Details	Date
Member of the Wellcome Trust Neuroscience Panel	2006-9
Founding Editor Neurocase, Oxford University Press.	1994-1997
Deputy Editor Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.	1990-1997
Member of Editorial Board of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.	1997 - Present
Member of Research Grants Committee, UK Stroke Association.	1994-1997
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Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Member of the Royal Irish Academy	2004	2004
Member of the Council of the World Federation for Neurological Rehabilitation.	2002	Present
Member of the Advisory Council, International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance	1999	Present
Academy of Medical Sciences Working Group on the interface between basic and clinical neuroscience	2002	2003


Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Irv Acenberg Scientist Award from the University of Toronto, Rotman Research Institute	2002
Fellow, Hughes Hall College, Cambridge.	1997 - 1999
Medical Research Council Travelling Fellow, University of Rome, Italy	1989-1990

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Research Institutes / Centres / Groups

Research Institutes / Centres / Groups	Description of Role	Date From	Date To
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience		15-JUL-06	15-JUL-06


Employment Details

Position Held	Job Description	Where	Date From	Date To
1. Professor of Psychology and Director, Institute of Neuroscience		Trinity College Dublin, Ireland		current
Visiting Professor		Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London		current
Visiting Professor		Dept of Psychology, University of Wales at Bangor		current
Visiting Scientist		Rotman Research Institute,Baycrest Centre,Toronto, Canada		current
Professor of Psychology		Trinity College Dublin, Director, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience	1999	-present
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Description of Research Interests

neuropsychology,biomarkers, alzheimer's disease, ageing, cognitive function, eeg


Research Interests


Research Projects

Project title	Relationship between Genotype and Phenotype in Child and Adolescent ADHD: A genetic association study using neuropsychological performance and task-related brain activation as potential endophenotypes
Summary
Funding Agency	Science Foundation Ireland
Programme	Investigator Award
Type of Project
Date from	May 2004
Date to	May 2008
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Project title	Neuroenhancement for Inequalities in Elder Lives
Summary
Funding Agency	Atlantic Philanthropies
Programme
Type of Project
Date from	1st September 2009
Date to	31 August 2014
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Project title	Self Alert Training for Adults with Attentional Deficits
Summary
Funding Agency	Health Research Board
Programme	Health Research Award
Type of Project
Date from	March 2010
Date to	March 2013
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Project title	The short and long range dynamics of attention
Summary
Funding Agency	IRCHSS/European Science Foundation
Programme
Type of Project
Date from	2007
Date to	2010
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Publications

Peer Reviewed

Greene CM, Bellgrove MA, Gill M, Robertson IH, Noradrenergic genotype predicts lapses in sustained attention, Neuropsychologia, 47, (2), 2009, p591 - 594 DOI
Magno E, Simo˜es-Franklin C, Robertson IH Garavan H, The Role of the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate in Evaluating Behavior for Achieving Gains and Avoiding Losses, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, (12), 2009, p2328-2342 DOI
Dockree P, Kelly SP, Foxe JF, Reilly RB and Robertson IH, Optimal sustained attention is linked to the spectral content of background EEG activity: Greater ongoing tonic alpha (~10Hz) power supports successful phasic goal activation, European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, (3), 2007, p900 - 907 Notes: [PMID: 17328783] DOI
Dockree PM, X O’Keeffe FM, Moloney, P, Carton, S, Jacoby, LL and Robertson IH, Capture by misleading information and its false acceptance in patients with traumatic brain injury, Brain, 129, (Part 1), 2006, p128 - 140 Url Alt. Url DOI
Vigilant Attention in, editor(s)Gazzaniga, M. S. , The Cognitive Neurosciences, MIT Press, 2004, pp563 - 578, [Robertson, IH and Garavan, H ] Notes: [3rd edition. Michael S. Gazzaniga Editor-in-Chief. November 2004] TARA - Full Text
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