Barry Everitt (scientist)
British neuroscientist
Barry John Everitt (born 19 February 1946) is a British neuroscientist and academic. He was Master of Downing College, Cambridge (2003–2013), and Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge (1997–2013). He is now emeritus professor. From 2013 to 2022, he was provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust at Cambridge University.
Early life and education
Everitt was born on 19 February 1946. He graduated in zoology and psychology at the University of Hull and received his PhD degree from the University of Birmingham on behavioural neuroendocrinology. He undertook post-doctoral research at Birmingham and then at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, with the neuroanatomists Tomas Hökfelt and Kjell Fuxe.
Research
Everitt's research has spanned many aspects of brain function, from neuroanatomy to neuroendocrinology and behavioural neuroscience. He is a behavioural neuroscientist who has combined learning theory with the methodology of systems neuroscience to uncover the neural basis of motivated behaviour. In foundational work he showed the importance of the amygdala in appetitive emotional learning and detailed the functional organization of amygdala-striatal circuitry in mediating conditioned reinforcement.
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