Adrian Owen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Adrian Owen
Occupation	Neuroscientist
Date Of Birth	May 17, 1966(1966-05-17)
Age	58
Birthplace	Gravesend
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Adrian Owen Biography

Adrian Owen is one of the most popular and richest Neuroscientist who was born on May 17, 1966 in Gravesend, England, United Kingdom.

Adrian Mark Owen OBE (born 17 May 1966) is a British neuroscientist and best- selling author. He is best known for his 2006 discovery, published in the journal Science, showing that some patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are in fact fully aware and (shown subsequently) able to communicate with the outside world using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the 2019 New Year Honours List, Owen was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to scientific research.

In 1992, Owen began his post-doctoral research in the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, working with Michael Petrides and Brenda Milner. He was awarded The Pinsent Darwin Scholarship by the University of Cambridge in 1996 and returned to the UK to work at the newly opened Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Cambridge. In 1997 he moved to the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU), Cambridge (formally the Applied Psychology Unit) to set up the neuroimaging programme there and to pursue his research in cognitive neuroscience. He was awarded MRC tenure in 2000 and made Assistant Director of the MRC CBU in 2005, with overall responsibility for the onsite imaging facilities (3T Siemens Tim Trio MRI and 306-channel Elekta-Neuromag MEG systems).

Adrian Owen Net Worth

Adrian Owen is one of the richest Neuroscientist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adrian Owen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Adrian Owen was born 17 May 1966 in Gravesend, England, and educated at Gravesend Grammar School, graduating in the same final year class as actor Paul Ritter. His first degree was in Psychology from University College London 1985–1988. As a student he shared accommodation with Psychologist and best- selling author Richard Wiseman. Owen completed his PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London (now part of King’s College London) between 1988 and 1992.

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In 2010, Owen was awarded a $10M Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at The University of Western Ontario (UWO) and moved most of his research team to Canada in order to take up this position in January 2011.

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In June 2017, Owen published ‘Into The Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death’ a popular science book that told the story of his 20-year quest to show that some patients thought to be in a vegetative state were in fact entirely aware, but incapable of indicating their awareness to the outside world. The book became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic and received rave reviews from Nature (“A riveting read”), The Guardian (“Beautiful and moving”), The Times (“… the shock almost made me drop my book”), The New York Times (“Owen reprises his cases with enthusiasm and empathy”), The Daily Mail (“Thought-provoking and deeply moving”), the New Statesman (“”A fascinating book, written with evangelical fervor…gripping and moving”), The New Yorker (“Riveting and strangely uplifting”), The Globe and Mail (“The model of how pop science involving sensational subjects should done”), the Winnipeg Free Press (“prepare to be fascinated, astonished, and, at times, moved to tears”), The Mail on Sunday (“fascinating memoir…The Gray Zone reads like a thriller”), and many others. The book made Sunday Times ‘Book of The Year’, and The Times ‘Book of The Week’, it was listed on The New Yorker list ‘What We’re Reading This Summer’ and received 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon. The book has been translated into multiple languages, including Italian, French, Russian, German, Taiwanese, Japanese, Czech and Polish.

What did Adrian Owen discover?

Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable.

What techniques did Dr Adrian Owen use in his research?

The discovery led him to develop techniques – using brain-scanning technology – to determine whether patients are conscious, and eventually to communicate with some of them who are. Owen has encountered his share of skepticism, including from colleagues who have questioned his findings.

What field does Adrian Owen work?

Adrian Owen is the renowned neuroscientist behind Cambridge Brain Sciences. He has developed the tasks and conducted the research behind them for over 25 years. Owen is currently the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at Western University.

Do vegetative patients dream?

Patients in a minimally conscious state remain capable of dreaming during their sleep. Summary: Researchers compared the sleep of “vegetative” patients and minimally conscious state patients. The results of their study demonstrate once again the necessity of an adapted and specific medical care for each of these states …

What is unresponsive wakefulness syndrome?

Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS, previously known as vegetative state) occurs after patients survive a severe brain injury. Patients suffering from UWS have lost awareness of themselves and of the external environment and do not retain any trace of their subjective experience.