Michael Shadlen

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Michael Shadlen
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Born
Michael Neil Shadlen

(1959-08-19) 19 August 1959 (age 62)
New York City, New York
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Spouse(s)Helen Brew
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisNeural Mechanisms of Stereoscopic Depth Perception (1985)
Doctoral advisorRalph D Freeman
Other academic advisorsWilliam Newsome
Websitewww.shadlenlab.columbia.edu

Michael Neil Shadlen (born 19 August 1959) is an American neuroscientist and neurologist, who has made contributions in the neuroscience of decision making.[1] From 2000 he has been a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and from 2012 Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University.[2][3][4] He is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Shadlen is a jazz guitarist and interested in the relation between jazz and neuroscience.[5][6]

Education[]

Shadlen completed his B.A at Brown University in 1981 and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985. He completed an MD at Brown University in 1988.[citation needed]

Career[]

Shadlen did residency training at Stanford Medical School where he was Chief Resident 1991-1992 and Clinical Instructor 1993-94. He pursued neuroscience as a postdoctoral researcher (1993–1995) at Stanford Medical School before joining the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington where he became a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 2000. He practised neurology as an Adjunct Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Neurology at University of Washington (1995-2012).[citation needed]

Нe is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.[7]

Awards and honours[]

Shadlen was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.[8][9]

Other awards include:

References[]

  1. ^ Michael Shadlen publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ "HHMI investigator". HHMI.org.
  3. ^ "Shadlen Lab at Columbia University". www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu.
  4. ^ "CV" (PDF).
  5. ^ "How Neurons Tell Time".
  6. ^ "Columbia's Zuckerman Institute Presents Jazz in the Brain: A Dialogue of Sound and Science".
  7. ^ "Editorial Board: Current Biology". www.cell.com.
  8. ^ "The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine". www8.nationalacademies.org.
  9. ^ "2015 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Contributions to Advancing Science". 16 November 2015.

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