Shane O'Mara

I am Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College Dublin. 

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I explore brain systems supporting learning, memory, and cognition, and brain systems affected by stress and depression; I also explore policy implications of the behavioural and brain sciences. I have published >140 papers and edited 4 academic books.

I have a new book coming next year – details in due course.

My latest book is In Praise of Walking: The new science of how we walk and why it’s good for us. It was selected by the editors of Amazon.com as one of the best science books of 2020.

(Bodley Head / Vintage / PenguinRandomHouse &  Trans: (2020/21: French, Dutch, Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, Chinese, Greek, German, Polish, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian);

USA: Amazon.com; WW Norton; Powell’s; Booksamillion

Previous books: ‘A Brain for Business: A Brain for Life‘ (Palgrave) and ‘Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation’   (Harvard)

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