Masud Husain
@masudhusain.bsky.social
Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow, New College, Oxford. Editor-in-Chief, Brain
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The advert for the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability is now out. A fantastic opportunity for someone with expertise in social psychology, behavioural science, etc, to help address the greatest threat of our age. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-...
August 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The advert for the Hatton Professorship of Sustainability is now out. A fantastic opportunity for someone with expertise in social psychology, behavioural science, etc, to help address the greatest threat of our age. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/hatton-...
A long-form podcast that covered apathy, motivation, addiction, attention and Alzheimer's disease over a 2hr discussion with @hubermanlab.com
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How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain
Dr. Masud Husain explains the neuroscience of motivation, dopamine, effort and reward, plus dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cognitive resilience.
www.hubermanlab.com
August 24, 2026 at 8:13 PM
A long-form podcast that covered apathy, motivation, addiction, attention and Alzheimer's disease over a 2hr discussion with @hubermanlab.com
www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-...
www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-...
Lots of stimulating - and challenging - questions from Devi Sridhar and the highly engaged audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival which hosted some extraordinary discussions across a wide range of topics: fiction, politics, history and science.
August 24, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Lots of stimulating - and challenging - questions from Devi Sridhar and the highly engaged audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival which hosted some extraordinary discussions across a wide range of topics: fiction, politics, history and science.
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This piece interviewing @masudhusain.bsky.social is a wonderful antidote and frustration cleanser m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZRG...
Myths v Science: What Does Dopamine Actually Do? | What’s Up Docs
YouTube video by BBC Sounds
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August 3, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This piece interviewing @masudhusain.bsky.social is a wonderful antidote and frustration cleanser m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZRG...
How to protect the mind as we age? An engaging conversation with Steve Chenevey
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April 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
How to protect the mind as we age? An engaging conversation with Steve Chenevey
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www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6859s...
Come along if you're in the Washington DC area to listen to a discussion about what people with brain disorders reveal about our selves. Politics and Prose Bookstore 1324 4th St NE
April 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Come along if you're in the Washington DC area to listen to a discussion about what people with brain disorders reveal about our selves. Politics and Prose Bookstore 1324 4th St NE
Huge congratulations to Bryan Traynor & Rosa Rademakers
on winning the Breakthrough Prize for their work on C9orf72 and its role in ALS & FTD. This is an amazing achievement of which we're very proud @brain1878.bsky.social where Bryan is an Associate Editors and Rosa a member of our Advisory Board
on winning the Breakthrough Prize for their work on C9orf72 and its role in ALS & FTD. This is an amazing achievement of which we're very proud @brain1878.bsky.social where Bryan is an Associate Editors and Rosa a member of our Advisory Board
April 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Huge congratulations to Bryan Traynor & Rosa Rademakers
on winning the Breakthrough Prize for their work on C9orf72 and its role in ALS & FTD. This is an amazing achievement of which we're very proud @brain1878.bsky.social where Bryan is an Associate Editors and Rosa a member of our Advisory Board
on winning the Breakthrough Prize for their work on C9orf72 and its role in ALS & FTD. This is an amazing achievement of which we're very proud @brain1878.bsky.social where Bryan is an Associate Editors and Rosa a member of our Advisory Board
If you're in Washington DC on Thursday April 23rd, 2026 please come along to this free event. I'll be discussing Our Brains, Our Selves with Peter Turkeltaub, Director of the Cognitive Recovery Lab at Georgetown University.
April 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
If you're in Washington DC on Thursday April 23rd, 2026 please come along to this free event. I'll be discussing Our Brains, Our Selves with Peter Turkeltaub, Director of the Cognitive Recovery Lab at Georgetown University.
If you or your students want the best introduction to coding, take a look at the new book by Sanjay Manohar
April 13, 2026 at 12:58 AM
If you or your students want the best introduction to coding, take a look at the new book by Sanjay Manohar
I'm delighted to announce that 'Our Brains, Our Selves' launches in the States next week! Hope you'll enjoy it.
April 7, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I'm delighted to announce that 'Our Brains, Our Selves' launches in the States next week! Hope you'll enjoy it.
What's the relationship of apathy to depression and anhedonia? Sijia Zhao led our work on this to show that many individuals qualify for the diagnostic criteria of 2 or even 3 of these syndromes. But factor analysis reveals that the syndromes are highly dissociable
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March 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
What's the relationship of apathy to depression and anhedonia? Sijia Zhao led our work on this to show that many individuals qualify for the diagnostic criteria of 2 or even 3 of these syndromes. But factor analysis reveals that the syndromes are highly dissociable
jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl...
jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl...
March issue @brain1878.bsky.social with winning article in Brain Essay Competition by @oharealex.bsky.social considers if it is technologically feasible for machines to achieve human-level intelligence, and philosophically plausible for them to possess consciousness
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March 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM
March issue @brain1878.bsky.social with winning article in Brain Essay Competition by @oharealex.bsky.social considers if it is technologically feasible for machines to achieve human-level intelligence, and philosophically plausible for them to possess consciousness
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How people with brain disorders reveal important insights into our selves
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February 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
How people with brain disorders reveal important insights into our selves
www.waterstones.com/events/our-b...
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How people with brain disorders reveal important insights into our selves
www.waterstones.com/events/our-b...
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February 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
How people with brain disorders reveal important insights into our selves
www.waterstones.com/events/our-b...
www.waterstones.com/events/our-b...
Latest issue of @brain1878.bsky.social out with a great set of Opinion pieces on the value and ethics of thalamic stereoEEG recordings in people with intractable epilepsy being considered for surgery.
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Latest issue of @brain1878.bsky.social out with a great set of Opinion pieces on the value and ethics of thalamic stereoEEG recordings in people with intractable epilepsy being considered for surgery.
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Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
The December issue of Brain is out with a wonderful cover. Interested to know what those delicate helical structures are?
Yes, this is Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis and which proved so elusive to detect when researchers first attempted to isolate it.
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Yes, this is Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis and which proved so elusive to detect when researchers first attempted to isolate it.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The December issue of Brain is out with a wonderful cover. Interested to know what those delicate helical structures are?
Yes, this is Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis and which proved so elusive to detect when researchers first attempted to isolate it.
academic.oup.com/brain
Yes, this is Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis and which proved so elusive to detect when researchers first attempted to isolate it.
academic.oup.com/brain
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The Times and Sunday Times science/environment books of the year are out! By @masudhusain.bsky.social @adamweymouth.bsky.social Tim Gregory Liam Shaw @hannahritchie.bsky.social Suzanne O'Sullivan and Bollore/Bonnassies.
List here (click science/environment)
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List here (click science/environment)
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December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Times and Sunday Times science/environment books of the year are out! By @masudhusain.bsky.social @adamweymouth.bsky.social Tim Gregory Liam Shaw @hannahritchie.bsky.social Suzanne O'Sullivan and Bollore/Bonnassies.
List here (click science/environment)
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List here (click science/environment)
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On the Neurology of Apathy
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Does ‘laziness’ start in the brain?
Understanding the surprising mechanism behind apathy can help unlock scientific ways to boost your motivation
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December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
On the Neurology of Apathy
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Nice to have made this cut with OUR BRAINS, OUR SELVES in the Financial Times Best Books of 2025 list.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Nice to have made this cut with OUR BRAINS, OUR SELVES in the Financial Times Best Books of 2025 list.
This turned out to be a really stimulating interview on the University of Oxfords' CortexCast podcast series on what patients with brain disorders reveal about our selves
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November 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This turned out to be a really stimulating interview on the University of Oxfords' CortexCast podcast series on what patients with brain disorders reveal about our selves
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/season-3-epi...
The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
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One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK.
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social
is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities.
My views on how to change the system
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org
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We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
October 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...
This one made me smile.
The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
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The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
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September 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This one made me smile.
The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
The cover of the September issue of @brain1878.bsky.social depicts Hume and Sartre in animated conversation, accompanying a new essay on mental imagery by Margherita Arcangeli and Paolo Bartolomeo
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...