R. Douglas Fields
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R. Douglas Fields

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R. Douglas Fields is the Chief of the Section on Nervous System Development and Plasticity at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Adjunct Professor in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2004 Dr. Fields founded the scientific journal Neuron Glia Biology, where he is the Editor-in-Chief, and he is a scientific advisor to Scientific American Mind and Odyssey magazines. He is the author of numerous articles in popular magazines including Outside Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Odyssey Science Magazine for children and others. He is an internationally recognized authority on neuron-glia interactions, brain development, and the cellular mechanisms of memory. Dr. Fields received advanced degrees at UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, UC San Diego, and he held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University, Yale University, and the National Institutes of Health before starting his research laboratory at the NIH in 1994. The author of over 150 articles in scientific journals and books, he also enjoys building guitars, rock-climbing, and scuba diving.

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Twitter: @rdouglasfields1
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    • Electric Brain

    • How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better
    • By: R. Douglas Fields
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-2020
    • Language: English
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