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V. S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Brain and Cognition
Professor, Psychology and Neurosciences Program
University of California, San Diego
Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute
Web Sites:
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Biography
Dr. V.S. Ramachandran's early research was on visual perception but
he is best known for his work in Neurology. He has published over 120
papers in scientific journals (including four invited review articles
in the Scientific American), is Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of
Human Behaviour and author of the critically acclaimed book Phantoms in the Brain
that has been translated into eight languages and formed the basis for
a two part series on Channel Four TV UK and a 1 hr PBS special in USA.
He has also authored Art and the Brain, The Emerging Mind, and A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
He has received many honours and awards including election to Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford, was awarded the John F. Streff Gold Medal from the Neurological Rehabilitation Society of America, a Gold Medal from the Australian National University, and the Ariens Kappers Medal from the Royal Nederlands Academy of Sciences for distinguished contributions in neuroscience, and the Presidential Lecture Award from the American Academy of Neurology. In 1995 he gave the Decade of the Brain Lecture at the 25th annual (Silver Jubilee) meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and more recently the Inaugural keynote lecture at the Decade of the Brain Conference held by NIMH and the Library of Congress, the Rudel-Moses Lecture at Columbia, the D.O.Hebb Lecture at McGill University, the Dorcas Cumming Plenary Lecture at Cold Springs Harbor, the first Hans Lucas Teuber Lecture at MIT, the Raymond Adams neurology grand rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and the Jonas Salk Memorial Lecture, Salk Institute.. He was invited by the BBC to give the Reith lectures
for 2003 and is the first physician/experimental psychologist to be
given this honor since the series was begun by Bertrand Russell in
1949. Newsweek magazine named him a member of "The Century Club", one
of the "hundred most prominent people to watch in the next century." He
is a member of the Neuroscience Research Program of the Neurosciences
Institute in La Jolla and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Dr. Ramachandran holds an M.D. from the Stanley Medical College, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge.
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