Michael Shadlen

Michael Shadlen
Born Michael Neil Shadlen
(1959-08-19) 19 August 1959
New York City, New York
Residence New York City
Citizenship United States
Alma mater
Spouse(s) Helen Brew
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Neural Mechanisms of Stereoscopic Depth Perception (1985)
Doctoral advisor Ralph D Freeman
Other academic advisors William Newsome
Website www.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.

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).

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.[7][8]

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. ↑ "The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine". www8.nationalacademies.org.
  8. ↑ "2015 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Contributions to Advancing Science". 16 November 2015.
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