About the lecture: Apathy, or lack of motivation, is emerging as a common, debilitating syndrome that affects patients across a range of brain disorders, including stroke, traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative conditions. It can manifest in many different ways such as ‘fatigue’, ‘lack of energy’ or simply as a lack of willingness to allocate physical, cognitive or social effort, resulting in lack of engagement with therapies. In this talk, I’ll explain what we understand about the brain mechanisms leading to apathy and how the condition impacts on patients’ lives and their potential for rehabilitation.

About the speaker: Masud Husain is Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and is Professorial Fellow at New College Oxford. After obtaining his PhD at Oxford, Masud went on to postdoctoral work at MIT before completing clinical training at Oxford. He held a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, first at Imperial College and then at University College London. At UCL he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Head of Dept Brain Repair & Rehabilitation at the Institute of Neurology. His current research focuses on understanding mechanisms underlying motivation and memory in healthy people and patients with neurological disorders.

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