Professor Oliver Turnbull

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Contact info

Roles: Pro Vice Chancellor (Teaching & Learning)

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) emotional memory, and its preservation even in profound amnesia.

He is the author of roughly 150 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 11 languages). For many years, he was the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Neuropsychoanalysis, and Secretary of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society.

  1. Rotated drawing: a mini mental state examination performance with strong lateralising significance

    Turnbull, O., Della Sala, S. & Beschin, N., 1997, In: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 62, p. 419-420

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Schizotypy and flexible learning: A pre-requisite of creativity

    Bowman, C. & Turnbull, O., 2009, In: Philoctetes. p. 5-30

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Schizotypy and flexible learning: A prerequisite of creativity?

    Bowman, C. H. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, 2, p. 5-30

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Shades of Rage: Applying the Process Model of Emotion Regulation to Managing Anger After Brain Injury

    Witten, J. A., Coetzer, R. & Turnbull, O., 18 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 834314.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Shooting the messenger won't change the news.

    Malcolm-Smith, S., Solms, M., Turnbull, O. H. & Tredoux, C., 1 Dec 2008, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 17, 4, p. 1297-1301

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Stuck in a Moment: Concreteness and Psychotherapy after Acquired Brain Injury

    Salas-Riquelme, C., Salas, C. E., Vaughan, F. L., Shanker, S. & Turnbull, O. H., 19 Mar 2013, In: Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy. 1, 1, p. 1-38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Subjective awareness on the Iowa Gambling Task: The key role of emotional experience in schizophrenia

    Roberts, C., Bowman, C. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Aug 2005, In: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 27, 6, p. 656-664

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Symptom-specific self-referential cognitive processes in bipolar disorder: a longitudinal analysis

    Pavlickova, H., Varese, F., Turnbull, O. H., Scott, J., Morriss, R., Kinderman, P., Paykel, E. & Bentall, R. P., 30 Nov 2012, In: Psychological Medicine. 43, 9

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Tell me, where is [this] fancy bred? The cardiac and cerebral accounts of the lateral cradling bias.

    Turnbull, O. H., Lucas, M. D., Mandal, M. K. (ed.), Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (ed.) & Tiwari, G. (ed.), 1 Jan 2000, Side Bias: A neuropsychological perspective. 2000 ed. Springer, p. 267-287

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  10. Published

    The Bangor Gambling Task: Characterising the Performance of Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury

    Adlam, A-L. R., Adams, M., Turnbull, O., Yeates, G. & Gracey, F., Mar 2017, In: Brain Impairment. 18, 1, p. 62-73

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review