Ray Dolan
Ray Dolan
Ray Dolan studied medicine at University College Galway, National University of Ireland. He completed a specialist training in psychiatry in UK (1979 – 1986). In 1994 he joined the Institute of Neurology, University College London, as part of a group who established the Wellcome Trust Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL). Since 1999 he has held the Mary Kinross Chair in Neuropsychiatry, at UCL. In 2006, he became founding Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, at UCL. Since 2014 he has been Director of a UCL- Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. He holds an honorary Professorship at the Humboldt University, Berlin and is an External Member of the Max Planck Society. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society.
Ray Dolan’s research is concerned with how we learn about reward and punishment, and how reward and punishment impact on our subjective emotional state and on decision making. Using insights from this work he addresses how processing of reward and punishment breaks down in the context of psychiatric disorder. He uses a range of research approaches including functional neuroimaging, computational analysis of behaviour and psychopharmacological manipulations.
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