David Linden

David J. Linden (born November 3, 1961 in Santa Monica ) is an American neurobiologist who teaches as a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland .

Life

David Linden grew up in Santa Monica, California. His father was a psychiatrist in Los Angeles , his mother editor. After finishing school at Santa Monica High School, Linden studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois . After completing his studies, he first worked for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche before he was appointed professor of neurobiology at Johns Hopkins University. From 1993 to 1995 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .

Linden became better known through several popular scientific publications in the field of neuroscience and brain research, in which he made the complex processes of neurobiology accessible to a broader reading public in a language that was easy to understand.

Linden is also the editor-in-chief of the neurobiological journal Journal of Neurophysiology .

Publications

• The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02478-6 ( hup.harvard.edu ).
• High. Where do the good feelings come from . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63050-7 (English: The compass of pleasure . Translated by Norbert Juraschitz).
• The brain - an accident of nature. And why it still works . 1st edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-498-03932-5 .

Web links

• David Linden in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Dr. Linden's Official Web Page
• Article about The Accidental Mind in Newsweek
• Article about the nation's top popular writers on neuroscience in an April, 2007 issue of Slate