Adam Zeman

I trained in Medicine at Oxford University Medical School, after a first degree in Philosophy and Psychology. I was a consultant neurologist in Edinburgh, from 1996, and have been Professor of Neurology at Exeter University Medical School from 2005. My specialised clinical work is in cognitive and behavioural neurology, including neurological disorders of sleep. My research interests include amnesia associated with epilepsy (http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/time/) and disorders of visual imagery (http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/research/neuroscience/theeyesmind/). I have an active background interest in the science and philosophy of consciousness, publishing several wide-ranging reviews of the field and an accessible introduction to the subject, intended for a general readership (Consciousness: a user’s guide, Yale University Press, 2002). I have written a study of the brain for the general reader, A Portrait of the Brain (Yale, 2008), edited Ethical Dilemmas in Neurology (W.B.Saunders, 2000) with Linda Emanuel and Epilepsy and Memory (OUP, 2012) with Marilyn Jones-Gotman and Narinder Kapur. I was Chairman of the British Neuropsychiatry Association from 2007-2011. I have recently moved into a freelance phase of life as an expert witness and independent researcher based in Edinburgh, where I am an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences. A new book on the science of imagination, The Shape of Things Unseen, will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2025, and I am currently embarking on a new wave of work on ‘extreme imagery’.