R. Douglas Fields, Ph. D. is the Chief of the Nervous System
Development and Plasticity Section at the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development. He received his B.A. from
the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. degree at San Jose
State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of
California, San Diego, working jointly in the Medical School and
Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Fields has conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford
University, Yale University, and the NIH. He became Head of the
Neurocytology and Physiology Unit, NICHD in 1994, and Chief of the
Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section, NICHD in 2001.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuron Glia Biology, and
member of the editorial board of several other journals in the
field of neuroscience. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
“The Other Brain offers an insightful, complex, and nuanced picture
of the most interesting substance on earth: the matter inside our
heads.”
—Anthony Doerr, The Boston Globe
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