Andrew Koob
Andrew Koob graduated from Northwestern University in 1998 and from Purdue University with a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 2005. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in pediatric neurosurgery at Dartmouth College, followed by positions as a postdoctoral fellow for research in Parkinson’s Disease at the University of California, San Diego, and as a researcher in molecular neurogenetics at the University of Munich, Germany.
Books
The Root of Thought
Discover the other 90% of your brain—and how it may hold the key to everything from increasing intelligence to curing Alzheimer’s!
If you know anything about human brains, you know about neurons—the cells that have long been seen as central to virtually everything your brain thinks, feels, and does. But neurons represent only 10% of your brain cells: The other 90% are glial cells. Until recently, neuroscientists thought glial cells did little more than hold your brain together. But in the past few years, they’ve discovered that glial cells are extraordinarily important. In fact, they may hold the key to understanding intelligence, treating psychiatric disorders and brain injuries—and perhaps even curing fatal conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Bonus Content
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Chapter 1: Cities and Highways
Andrew Koob explains that recovery from brain injury, degenerative brain diseases, and treatments for psychiatric disorders can only be fully realized through the study of glia, the 90% of our brain which has been ignored for 100 years. Read More…