Memory Rehabilitation: Integrating Theory and Practice

Barbara A. Wilson, PhD, ScD, has worked in brain injury rehabilitation since 1979, at Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford, Charing Cross Hospital in London, and the University of Southampton Medical School. She has also been a Senior Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge since 1990. In 1996, Dr. Wilson established the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, a partnership between the local NHS Trust and the Medical Research Council, and serves as the Centre’s Director of Research. She holds or has held several grants to study new assessment and treatment procedures for people with nonprogressive brain injury and has written over 16 books, 8 widely used neuropsychological tests, and over 260 journal articles and chapters. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, she has served on the governing boards of the Encephalitis Society, the Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology, and the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation. Dr. Wilson has received numerous prestigious awards for her research and clinical contributions and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Academy of Social Sciences.