Michael D. Kopelman

Professor Michael Kopelman Ph.D, FBPsS, FRCPsych, FMedSci is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychiatry, King’s College London (IoPPN). He formerly ran a Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, for 25 years. He was resident of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) 2017-18 and of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA) 2011-13. He has been co-editor/co-author of The Handbook of Memory Disorders, 2002 and Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry, 4^th edition, 2009; and has served on 12 Editorial Boards, including Brain, Neuropsychologia, Cortex, Neuropsychology, the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. His research has covered many aspects of memory disorder including forgetting rates, retrograde amnesia, confabulation and psychogenic amnesia, and also other cognitive disorders including dysexecutive syndrome, calculation disorders, and semantic dementia. He was awarded a Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2013, and he gave the British Neuropsychological Society Freda Newcombe Prize Lecture in 2018.