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. Published

    Emotion-based learning and central executive resources: An investigation of intuition and the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Roberts, C. E., Turnbull, O. H., Evans, C. E., Bunce, A., Carzolio, B. & O'Connor, J., 1 Apr 2005, In: Brain and Cognition. 57, 3, p. 244-247

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. 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

  3. Published

    Emotion and intuition: Does schadenfreude make interns poor learners?

    Turnbull, O. H., Turnbull, O., Worsey, R. B. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Jan 2007, In: Philoctetes. 1, 1

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. 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

  5. Published

    Effects of decision-phase time constraints on emotion-based learning in the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Cella, M., Dymond, S., Cooper, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jul 2007, In: Brain and Cognition. 64, 2, p. 164-169

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Dopamine, and the pleasures of creativity

    Turnbull, O. & Bowman, C. H., 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, p. 39-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Dopamine and the pleasure of creativity.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Jan 2009, In: Philoctetes. 2, 2, p. 39-42

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-esteem and their relationship to symptoms of depression and mania

    Pavlickova, H., Turnbull, O. H. & Bentall, R. P., Sept 2014, In: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. 87, 3, p. 311-323

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Direct versus indirect emotional consequences on the Iowa Gambling Task.

    Berry, H. E., Turnbull, O. H., Berry, H. & Bowman, C. H., 1 Nov 2003, In: Brain and Cognition. 53, 2, p. 389-392

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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

  11. Published

    Defense styles from the perspective of affective neuroscience

    Hoşgören-Alıcı, Y., Hasanlı, J., Özkarar Gradwohl, G., Turnbull, O. H. & Çakmak, E., Dec 2023, In: Neuropsychoanalysis. 25, 2, p. 181-189 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Coping with Death and Bereavement: A Proactive Intervention Program for Adults with Intellectual Disability

    Inmaculada Fernández-Ávalos, M., Fernández Alcántara, M., Cruz-Quintana, F., Turnbull, O., Rosario Ferrer-Cascalesa, R. & Nieves Pérez-Marfil, M., Oct 2023, In: Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 16, 4, p. 339-362

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Confabulation: Developing the ‘emotion dysregulation’ hypothesis

    Turnbull, O. & Salas, C. E., Feb 2017, In: Cortex. 87, p. 52-61

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Concrete behaviour and reappraisal deficits after a left frontal stroke: A case study.

    Salas, C. E., Gross, J. J., Rafal, R. D., Vinas-Guasch, N. & Turnbull, O. H., 4 Nov 2013, In: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 23, 4, p. 467-500

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Cognitive vulnerability to bipolar disorder in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder

    Pavlickova, H., Turnbull, O. H. & Bentall, R. P., 21 Apr 2014, In: British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 53, 4, p. 386-401

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Cognitive neuropsychology comes of age.

    Turnbull, O. H., 1 Jan 2001, In: Cortex. 37, 3, p. 445-450

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Cognitive decision modelling of emotion-based learning impairment in schizophrenia: The role of awareness

    Cella, M., Dymond, S., Cooper, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 30 Mar 2012, In: Psychiatry Research. 196, 1, p. 15-19

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Cognitive Performance After Facial Botulinum Toxin Treatment in a Cohort of Neurologic Patients: An Exploratory Study

    Platho-Elwischger, K., Schmoeger, M., Willinger, U., Abdel-Aziz, C., Algner, J., Pretscherer, S., Auff, E., Kranz, G., Turnbull, O. H. & Sycha, T., 1 Mar 2022, In: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 103, 3, p. 402-408

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Building the Bond: Predictors of the Alliance in Neurorehabilitation.

    Rowlands, L., Coetzer, R. & Turnbull, O., 21 May 2020, In: NeuroRehabilitation. 46, 3, p. 271-285

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. 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

  21. Published

    Big issues, little issues... and non-issues.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 116-1121

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Batteria testistica per lo studio della capacita‚ di riconoscere identita‚ ed orientamento di stimoli visivi: dati normativi e risultati in un campione di pazienti affetti da demenza di Alzheimer

    Caterini, F., Della Sala, S., Spinnler, H., Stangalino, C. & Turnbull, O., 1998, In: Archivio di Psicologia, Neurologia e Psichiatria. 49, p. 298-313

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Awareness, desire, and false beliefs: Freud in the light of modern neuropsychology.

    Turnbull, O. H. & Solms, M., 1 Nov 2007, In: Cortex. 43, 8, p. 1083-1090

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Attention and emotion in anosognosia: Evidence of implicit awareness and repression?

    Ward, R. A., Nardone, I., Ward, R., Fotopoulou, A. & Turnbull, O. H., 1 Oct 2007, In: Neurocase. 13, 5-6, p. 438-445

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Association of salivary-assessed oxytocin and cortisol levels with time of night and sleep stage

    Blagrove, M., Fouquet, N. C., Baird, A. L., Pace-Schott, E. F., Davies, A. C., Neuschaffer, J. L., Henley-Einion, J. A., Weidemann, C. T., Thome, J., McNamara, P. & Turnbull, O. H., 15 Aug 2012, In: Journal of Neural Transmission. 119, 10, p. 1223-1232

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review