Dana Alliance Members

More than 280 neuroscientists comprise the Alliance membership, joined by the common interest in advancing public awareness about brain research. Recognized as leaders in their respective fields, they are among the world’s foremost authorities on neuroscientific research and clinical neurology topics.  Each has made a personal commitment to support the mission of the Dana Alliance through active participation in outreach and educational activities. Among the current members, 10 have received the Nobel Prize.

The Executive Committee of the Dana Alliance directs and guides the operations and activities of the organization in pursuit of its mission.

The searchable list of Dana Alliance members below is being updated. A current list of members is available here.

Membership

(as of March 2009)

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Members' News and Views

New Dana Press Book: Treating the Brain: What the Best Doctors Know

Treating the Brain by Walter G. BradleyEven in this information age, people dealing with often-serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable information—the essential medical fact. Using case histories as examples, Walter G. Bradley explains the neurological examinations, tests, clinical features, causes and treatments available for Alzheimer’s disease, migraines, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson’s and other frequently diagnosed neurological disorders.

New York Times Book Review: 'Nothing Was the Same' 
Kay Redfield Jamison, who discussed her own manic depression in “An Unquiet Mind” revisits her husband’s death from cancer. [off-site link]

How Robots Could Transform the Classroom
Read about Machine Learning and the Transformation of Education in a Q&A with Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D.

Music and the Brain Podcasts
Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., served as project chair on the Library of Congress series Music and the Brain." Podcasts are now available featuring performances, lectures and conversations with leading scientists, scholars, composers, performers and other experts. This series was partially funded by the Dana Foundation. [off-site link]

Neuroaesthetics and Neuroeducation Move Forward, Together
In his Brain in the News column, Guy M. McKhann, M.D. writes that there is growing interaction between experts in neuroscience and those in the arts, an amalgamation sometimes referred to as neuroaesthetics."

New BWH Study Finds Protein Fragments Can Disrput Memory
Dennis Selkoe, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and medical student Ganesh Shankar, Ph.D., published research that helps scientists understand the events that lead to a person developing Alzheimer's disease. [PDF, Selkoe photo page 2]

A Biology of Mental Disorder
Dana Alliance Vice Chairman Eric Kandel writes in Newsweek this week of his optimism that the next 10 to 20 years will be more fruitful for neuroscience than the past two decades have been. [off-site link]

Illuminating genius: insights from science and the arts
Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., blogs on the importance of providing students with a "liberal education" that combines the study of the arts and the sciences.

Findings Should Help Scientists and Educators Join Forces 
Guy M. McKhann, M.D., writes about neuroeducation and the need for a new type of transition person who can bridge the education and cognitive neuroscience fields.

Why the Arts Matter
Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., Gives Six Good Reasons for Advocating the Importance of Arts in School.

First Lessons from My Personal Genome
Remarks by James D. Watson, Ph.D., Nobel Prize winner and Vice Chairman of the Dana Alliance, on receiving a Double Helix Award.