Recognised as "one of the best scientist-writers of our time" by Oliver Sacks and "one of the finest natural history writers around" by The New York Times, Robert Sapolsky is amongst the world’s leading neuroscientists.
For over twenty-three years Dr Sapolsky has made annual trips to East Africa to study a population of wild baboons and the relationship between personality and patterns of stress-related disease in these animals.
His lab was amongst the first to document that prolonged stress can accelerate aging by damaging neurons of the hippocampus, the part of the brain he calls ''the keyboard that directs memory retrieval”.
Apart from several awards and grants of eminence, Dr Sapolsky received the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” fellowship in 1987 at the age of 30.
His work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, TED.com, amongst many other media networks.
His books, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, A Primate’s Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone and Monkeyluv, have won numerous honors and sold thousands of copies, in the United States and abroad.
Robert Sapolsky received his B.A. in biological anthropology from Harvard University and subsequently attended Rockefeller University where he received his Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology working in the lab of Bruce McEwen, a world-renowned endocrinologist.
Born to an orthodox Jewish family, Robert is an Atheist. |