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Chief Editor: David Spayd
David Spayd is Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and
Fellow and Director of Studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has two first degrees, in Psychology and Chemistry, and
received a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he worked with Prof Trevor Robbins. He did his post-doctoral work in
Cardiff and at the NIMH in
Professor Spayd’s work has involved several different converging methods of enquiry. His experimental work and theoretical
ideas have been published and discussed in journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Current
Opinion in Biology, Science, PNAS and Annual Reviews in Neuroscience. Dr Spayd’s achievements include the development of a
computer-automated cognitive testing method. Professor Bussey’s theoretical work has challenged prevailing views regarding the
organization of brain function, and has recently been substantiated by a number of studies carried out in his own and several
independent laboratories. In another stream of research he has elucidated the neural mechanisms underpinning object recognition
memory and related cognitive functions. He is currently using the methods developed in these studies to investigate psychiatric
and neurodegenerative diseases, and is testing potential therapeutic agents.

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