Professor Andrew Scholey

Professor

Department: Psychology

Andrew is a Professor of Human Psychopharmacology and Vice Chancellor Fellow in the Department of Psychology. He rejoined Northumbria University in 2025 following seventeen years in Melbourne, Australia where he was director of the Centre for Human Psychopharmacology at Swinburne University. Following a degree in Psychology from Plymouth University, Andrew completed his PhD and a postdoc at the Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, Open University before joining Northumbria University. He established the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at Northumbria (now the Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre). He holds Adjunct Research Professor positions at Monash and Swinburne Universities in Australia.

Andrew has been awarded over 12 million pounds in government and industry research funding. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 20 book chapters and books. He is placed in the top 2% of scientists globally based on citations and academic impact (Stanford/Elsevier's Scientist Rankings).

Andrew acted as advisor to the UK Parliamentary Forum on Diet and Health, and to the Canadian Ministry of Health. He was a member of the inaugural Health and Medical Research Council Engagement and Impact panel (Health and Life Sciences) and, until 2025, the Australian Research Council Medical Research Advisory Group. He is Speciality Chief Editor for Frontiers in Psychology, Nutrition and Brain Health.

Andrew has acted as an expert advisor to numerous UK, European, North American and Asia-Pacific industry partners, ranging from start-ups to global Fortune 500 companies. This work aims to translate research findings into evidence-based benefits for brain and mental health.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Biobehavioural effects of ‘nutra’ interventions (nutrition, nutrients, nutraceuticals, nootropics and whole dietary patterns).
Functional effects of alcohol hangover.
Understanding the mechanisms underlying acute and chronic cognitive enhancement using neuroimaging and biomarker measurement.
Development and application of evidence-based interventions to optimise cognitive performance and mental health, and reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia (including with industry partners).

Key Publications

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Development of a checklist for cognitive assessment requirements (CARE) based on a Delphi consensus study, Nejati, V., Estaji, R., Balanzá-Martínez, V., Balota, D., Barker-Collo, S., Bell, M., Berry, J., Borhani, K., Cullum, M., Feinstein, A., Golden, C., Gonzalez, R., Grafman, J., Hollon, S., Jansen, P., Kochan, N., Van Patten, R., Piguet, O., Raskin, S., Rourke, S., Scholey, A., Stern, Y., Woods, S., Posner, M. 24 Jan 2025, In: Scientific Reports
Homocysteine Modulates Brain Functional Connectivity in a Memory Retrieval Task, Silberstein, R., Pipingas, A., Scholey, A. 25 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Alcohol hangover versus dehydration revisited: The effect of drinking water to prevent or alleviate the alcohol hangover, Mackus, M., Stock, A., Garssen, J., Scholey, A., Verster, J. 1 Dec 2024, In: Alcohol

Professional Activity

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Oral presentation: The effect of glycaemic index of breakfast cereal on children's cognitive performance 2005