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. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. The neuropsychology of object constancy

    Turnbull, O., Carey, D. P. & McCarthy, R. A., 1997, In: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 3, p. 288-98

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The neuropsychology that would have interested Freud most

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 3, p. 33-38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    The pleasantness of false beliefs: An emotion-based account of confabulation

    Turnbull, O. H., Jenkins, S. & Rowley, M. L., 1 Jan 2004, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 6, p. 6-16

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. The taxonomic perspective: The neuropsychological diagnosis of dementia

    Venneri, A., Turnbull, OH. & DellaSala, S., 1996, In: European Review of Applied Psychology. 46, 3, p. 179-188

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    This time it’s personal: reappraisal after acquired brain injury

    Rowlands, L., Coetzer, R. & Turnbull, O., 17 Feb 2021, In: Cognition and Emotion. 35, 2, p. 305-323

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Threat in dreams: An adaption?

    Malcolm-Smith, S., Solms, M., Turnbull, O. H. & Tredoux, C., 1 Dec 2008, In: Consciousness and Cognition. 17, 4, p. 1281-1291

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    To lose the frame of action: A selective deficit in avoiding unpleasant objects following a unilateral temporal lobe lesion

    Bamford, S., Turnbull, O., Coetzer, R. & Ward, R. A., 1 Aug 2009, In: Neurocase. 15, 4, p. 261-270

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Using the Process Model to Understand Emotion Regulation Changes After Brain Injury

    Salas, C. E., Gross, J. J. & Turnbull, O. H., Dec 2019, In: Psychology & Neuroscience. 12, 4, p. 430-150

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Visual determinants of the leftward cradling bias: a preliminary report

    Matheson, E. A. & Turnbull, O., 1998, In: Laterality. 3, 3, p. 283-8

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    What is neuropsychoanalysis?

    Solms, M. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jun 2011, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 13, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review