About the Author

Eric J. Nestler, MD, is professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and the Center for Basic Neuroscience at the Southwestern Medical School, Graduate School of Biomedical Science in Dallas, Texas.

Stephen E. Hyman, MD, is provost of Harvard University and professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

Robert C. Malenka, MD, Ph.D., is Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.