Masud Husain is a neurologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on understanding human cognition and its disorders. His team helped to show that visual neglect after stroke is a multi-component syndrome, identifying distinct deficits in attention and memory, and developing novel lesion-mapping methods that established frontal as well as parietal contributions to attention. His precision-based framework of short-term memory led to new ways of conceptualizing the architecture of memory and revealed distinct memory signatures of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. By uncovering how basal ganglia–frontal circuits mediate motivation, he has investigated mechanisms and treatments for the syndrome of clinical apathy.
Masud Husain is currently Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008, awarded the Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science by the Royal College of Physicians in 2006, and has been the Editor-in-Chief of Brain since 2021.
Professional position
- Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
- Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
