Masud Husain
Oxford neurologist who studies apathy, attention and memory; edits the journal Brain.
At a glance
Also on this page: Key facts · Links · Sources · Related pages
- Masud Husain is a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Oxford.
- He is Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience and a Professorial Fellow of New College.
- He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain.
- His lab studies attention after stroke, working memory, and apathy as reduced sensitivity to reward.
- His book Our Brains, Our Selves won the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize in 2025.
Key facts
- Position
- Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford; Professorial Fellow, New College1
- Editor
- Editor-in-Chief, Brain1
- Education
- Medicine at New College, Oxford (BMBCh), DPhil 1987; Harkness Fellow at MIT1
- Research
- Hemispatial neglect, visual working memory, motivation and apathy1
- Book
- Our Brains, Our Selves; Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, 20251
- Born
- East Pakistan, now Bangladesh1
Links
Sources
Last checked against its sources today
Is something on this page wrong or out of date? Tell us
How recent
The line under a date fills as time passes: empty when new, then one equal share each for a day, a week, a month and a year. For episodes and other items it is full at 2 years; for "last checked", at a year. A striped line means the date is known only to the month or year.