On my radar: Susan Greenfield’s cultural highlights

Baroness Susan Greenfield was born in London and studied experimental psychology at Oxford, gaining her DPhil in 1977. Her work focuses on the physiology of the brain, with an emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and on the impact of 21st-century technologies on the mind, which she describes as “mind change”. She was named woman of the year by the Observer in 2000, and in 2006 was made an honorary fellow of the British Science Association. Greenfield sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. Her latest book, A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk, published by Allen Lane (£20), is out now.