Robbins was appointed as a Demonstrator in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in 1973. He was subsequently promoted to Lecturer and Reader, before becoming Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in 1997. Robbins was elected to the Chair, and therefore Head of Department, of Psychology in October 2002, stepping down from the latter role in 2017.
The work of Robbins and his collaborators led to the formation of the BCNI in 2005, which is jointly funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Wellcome Trust. Robbins is director of the institute, which focuses on translational work leading to the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Robbins Chaired the MRC Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Board between 1995 and 1999, and was co-leader of the UK Government 2005 Foresight Project entitled 'Drug Futures 2025?'. He has also consulted for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the state of UK research. Since 2005, Robbins has been a Fellow of the Royal Society. In addition, he is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (since 1990) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (since 2000).
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Mehta, MA; Owen, AM; Sahakian, BJ; Mavaddat, N; Pickard, JD; Robbins, TW (2000). "Methylphenidate enhances working memory by modulating discrete frontal and parietal lobe regions in the human brain". The Journal of Neuroscience. 20 (6): RC65. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-06-j0004.2000. PMC 6772505. PMID 10704519. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6772505
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Owen, AM; James, M; Leigh, PN; Summers, BA; Marsden, CD; Quinn, NP; Lange, KW; Robbins, TW (1992). "Fronto-striatal cognitive deficits at different stages of Parkinson's disease" (PDF). Brain. 115 (6): 1727–51. doi:10.1093/brain/115.6.1727. PMID 1486458. S2CID 15969057. https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25426/1/langekw8.pdf
Dalley, JW; Fryer, TD; Brichard, L; Robinson, ES; Theobald, DE; Lääne, K; Peña, Y; Murphy, ER; Shah, Y; Probst, K; Abakumova, I; Aigbirhio, FI; Richards, HK; Hong, Y; Baron, JC; Everitt, BJ; Robbins, TW (2007). "Nucleus accumbens D2/3 receptors predict trait impulsivity and cocaine reinforcement". Science. 315 (5816): 1267–70. Bibcode:2007Sci...315.1267D. doi:10.1126/science.1137073. PMC 1892797. PMID 17332411. /wiki/Jean-Claude_Baron
Aron, AR; Fletcher, PC; Bullmore, ET; Sahakian, BJ; Robbins, TW (2003). "Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans". Nature Neuroscience. 6 (2): 115–6. doi:10.1038/nn1003. PMID 12536210. S2CID 10096947. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)
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Robbins, TW; Everitt, B; Nutt, D, eds. (2010). The Neurobiology of Addiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956215-2. 978-0-19-956215-2
Delgrado, MR; Phelps, EA; Robbins, TW, eds. (2011). Decision Making, Affect, and Learning: Attention and Performance XXIII. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199600434. 978-0199600434
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