A Rotarian has been given an award for his work in psychology.

Professor Narinder Kapur, a member of the Rotary Club of Northwick Park, in Harrow, is one of the two recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Psychological Society.

Mr Kapur, who was born in India and grew up in Northern Ireland, is a visiting Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London.

He worked for 23 years as the head of Neuropsychology at the Wessex Neurological Centre in Southampton, and then for seven years as head of Neuropsychology at Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge.

His main research interests are in human memory disorders, particularly in transient epileptic amnesia and memory rehabilitation.

He also has an interest in paradoxical phenomena in clinical neuroscience and is involved in collaborations with Neuropsychologists in India that focus on dementia and memory in the blind.