Shane O'Mara
Neuroscientist and professor
Shane O'Mara is an Irish neuroscientist and a professor at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of In Praise of Walking.
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About Shane O'Mara
Shane O'Mara is an Irish neuroscientist and a professor at Trinity College Dublin, working in experimental brain research. He studied at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was the first Ireland-based person elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. His research papers look at how the brain handles learning, memory, cognition and decision-making, and at how stress, anxiety, depression and motivation affect it. He has also served as Principal Investigator at the college's Institute of Neuroscience and as a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator. Besides In Praise of Walking, he has written Why Torture Doesn’t Work and A Brain for Business.