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Masud Husain FMedSci[1] is a clinical neurologist and neuroscientist working in the UK. He is Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences[2] and Departmental of Experimental Psychology,[3] University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford,[4] and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain[5]. He was born in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

Education

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Husain was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, Birmingham, and studied Physiological Sciences (Medicine) at New College, Oxford,[4] before completing his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a Senior Scholar. He held a Harkness Fellowship while a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Richard A. Andersen at MIT.[6] Husain completed his clinical and neurological training at hospitals in Oxford and London.[2]

Research and career

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Husain's research focuses on cognitive functions in people with neurological diseases and healthy people.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Attention and inattention

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His work on people with hemispatial neglect following stroke demonstrated several novel components of this syndrome. Using the attentional blink paradigm he showed that there were non-spatial, selective attention deficits in these patients,[16] in addition to their well-established directional attentional bias. Subsequent behavioural studies revealed that some people with hemispatial neglect can also suffer from impaired spatial working memory,[17] often revisiting locations without being aware that they have fixated them before.[18][19] Some may have poor sustained attention as measured on vigilance tasks,[20] or even directional motor deficits as indexed by paradigms where the spatial location of a visual target is dissociated from direction of movement required to reach it.[21][22] These findings provided further evidence for neglect being a multi-component syndrome, with different patients having different deficits, depending upon the extent of their lesion.[23][24] Critical brain regions associated with neglect that were identified by this work, included the right inferior posterior parietal and frontal regions.[25][26] Experimental medicine studies by Husain's group using the dopamine agonist rotigotine[27] and the noradrenergic agonist guanfacine[28][29] demonstrated that these drugs can ameliorate hemispatial neglect to some extent by improving attention.

Visual short-term or working memory

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By using new methods to measure the precision of recall in healthy people, work in Husain's lab challenged the view that capacity of visual short-term memory or working memory is limited to a fixed number of items.[30][31] Instead, this research revealed that although short-term memory is a highly limited resource, it can be flexibly deployed depending upon task demands.[32] This work led to the application of new methods to measure short-term memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease,[33][34] Parkinson's disease[33][34][35] and individuals at risk of developing these conditions.[33][34][35][36] The techniques that have been developed can provide more sensitive ways to measure short-term memory than traditional methods.[37] They have also revealed how different mechanisms might underlie short-term memory disorders in different neurological conditions.[34]

Motivation, apathy and initiation of action

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Work from Husain's lab showed that lesions to ventral basal ganglia leads to a condition of profound apathy, manifest as a lack of motivation to initiate action and specifically attributable to a deficit in reward sensitivity.[38] Using the dopamine receptor agonist ropinirole, it was possible to improve reward sensitivity, restore motivational vigour and reverse apathy.[38] These observations stimulated larger-scale studies in Parkinson's disease, a condition associated with basal ganglia pathology and often debilitating apathy. The syndrome of pathological apathy in Parkinson's disease[39][40] and small vessel cerebrovascular disease[41][42] was found to be characterised by reduced sensitivity to rewards, a deficit that could be ameliorated by dopaminergic drugs in Parkinson's disease.[39][40] This has led to a theoretical framework to understand mechanisms underlying apathy across brain disorders which incorporates concepts from cost-benefit decision making to formalise how people differ in their willingness to engage in effort in order to obtain potential rewards.[43]

The basal ganglia are considered to be essential for linking motivation to action systems.[44] Outputs of the basal ganglia are strongly connected to medial frontal cortex. Husain's group identified a mechanism that resolves competition between conflicting action plans, in medial frontal brain regions, including the supplementary eye field,[45] supplementary motor area and pre-supplementary motor area.[46][47] A key component of voluntary control paradoxically appears to involve inhibition of unwanted actions that are primed automatically by seeing objects around us.[48] This control is lost following supplementary motor area and pre-supplementary motor area lesions. Findings from lesion, stimulation and physiological studies were incorporated to provide a new theoretical framework for the role of the supplementary motor area and pre-supplementary motor area complex.[49]

Awards and honours

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Husain held a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship at Imperial College London (2000-2007) and University College London, UCL (2007–12). He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship (2012-2023) and elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (2008).[1] Husain won the Royal College of Physicians' (London) Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science (2006), British Neuropsychological Society's Elizabeth Warrington Prize (2006),[50] and the European Academy of Neurology Investigator Award (2016).[51] He is Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (2018) and Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (2018),[52] and is co-lead of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre Dementia theme (2022 -)[53] and Dementia Research Oxford at the University of Oxford[54]

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