Christopher Frith, psychologist and professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust
Centre for Neuroimaging, was in 2016 ranked among the ten most influential
brain scientists of the modern era. A world expert on schizophrenia, he is the
author of The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (winner of
the 1996 British Psychological Society Book Prize) and Making Up the Mind:
How the Brain Creates Our Mental World (longlisted for the 2008 Royal
Society Prize), and co-author with Eve Johnstone of Schizophrenia: A Very
Short Introduction.
He is a pioneer in the use of brain imaging, and in 2000 was the senior
member of the team that drew world press attention when they discovered
enlargement of the hippocampus in the brains of London taxi drivers. The study
was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2003. His account of
schizophrenia is featured in the syllabus for A-level Psychology, and his ideas
on the purpose of consciousness have been aired on Radio 4 and in discussions
at the Royal Institution.
Christopher is a fellow of the Royal Society, British Academy, Academy of
Medical Science, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. In
2014, he was jointly awarded the Jean-Nicod Lecture Series Prize with his wife,
Professor Uta Frith.
Christopher and Uta have co-authored multiple articles on social cognition,
and blog together at http://frithmind.org/socialminds/blog/ . Chris tweets at @cdfrith.
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of Brains, Minds and Human Interaction was published this year by Bloomsbury in the UK and Scribner in the US.
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