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. When is a view unusual? A single case study of orientation-dependent visual agnosia

    Turnbull, O. & McCarthy, R. A., 1996, In: Brain Research Bulletin. 40, 5-6, p. 497-502

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Wishful reality distortions in confabulation.

    Fotopoulou, A., Solms, M. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Mar 2004, In: Neuropsychologia. 42, 6, p. 727-744

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    ‘Just can’t hide it’: A behavioral and lesion study on emotional response modulation after right prefrontal damage

    Salas, C. E., Castro, O., St. Yuen, K., Radovic, D., D-Avossa, G. & Turnbull, O. H., Oct 2016, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 11, 10, p. 1528-1540

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Comment/debate › Research › Peer-reviewed
  6. When is a view unusual? A single case study of orientation-dependent visual agnosia – Discussion

    Humphreys, G. W. & Turnbull, O., 1996, In: Brain Research Bulletin. 40, p. 502-503

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

  7. Book/Film/Article review › Research › Peer-reviewed
  8. Published

    In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis by Casey Schwartz

    Turnbull, O., 21 Oct 2016, In: British Journal of Psychotherapy. 32, 4, p. 557-559

    Research output: Contribution to journalBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  9. Meeting Abstract › Research › Peer-reviewed
  10. Published

    The quantitative analyses of copy drawing and drawing from memory in brain-damaged patients

    Leek, C., Turnbull, O. & Tainturier, MJ., 1999, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. p. 37-37

    Research output: Contribution to journalMeeting Abstractpeer-review

  11. Chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  12. Published

    Bridging the gap between neuroscience and psychoanalysis

    Turnbull, O. H., Lovett, V. E., Fotopoulou, A. (ed.), Pfaff, D. (ed.) & Conway, M. A. (ed.), 17 May 2014, From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. 2014 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 186-206

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  13. Published

    Depth psychological consequences of brain damage.

    Turnbull, O. H., Solms, M. & Panksepp, J. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, A Textbook of Biological Psychiatry. 2003 ed. John Wiley & Sons, p. 571-596

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  14. Published

    Emotion and Delusion: Seeking common ground between neuroscience and psychotherapies

    Turnbull, O. & Lovett, V., 17 May 2012, From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Fotopoulou, A., Pfaff, D. & Conway, M. A. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 186-208

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  15. Published

    Emotion, false beliefs, and the neurobiology of intuition.

    Turnbull, O. H., Corrigall, J. (ed.) & Wilkinson, H. (ed.), 1 Jan 2003, Revolutionary Connections: Psychotherapy and Neuroscience. 2003 ed. Karnac Books, p. 135-162

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter