Raymond Joseph Dolan (born 21 January 1954) is an

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neuroscientist and the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at

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, where he was also the founding director of the

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Honours and awards

In 2006 he was awarded the

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by the

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. In 2015 he presented the

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at the

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. He was one of three recipients of the 2017 Brain Prize, along with

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and

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. He is a fellow of the

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, the

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, and the

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. In 2016, he was ranked by

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as the second-most influential neuroscientist in the modern world, behind only his UCL colleague

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. In 2019 he was awarded the Ferrier Medal and Lecture by the

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