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R. Douglas Fields

Neurologist, Author

R. Douglas Fields is a developmental neurobiologist and author of The Other Brain, a popular book about the discovery of brain cells (called glia) that communicate without using electricity. He is an authority on neuron-glia interactions, brain development, and the cellular mechanisms of memory. Fields serves on the editorial board of several neuroscience journals and also enjoys writing about science for the general public in Scientific American, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Outside, Odyssey, BrainFacts.org, and others. He received advanced degrees from UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, and the University of California, San Diego. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford, Yale, and the National Institutes of Health. He is currently chief of the section on nervous system development and plasticity at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the NIH. In addition to science, Fields enjoys building guitars, rock climbing, and scuba diving.

Past Programs Featuring R. Douglas Fields

Saturday, June 1, 2013 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Friday, May 31, 2013 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Saturday, June 4, 2011 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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