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Duke University School of Medicine. (M.D., 1980) Occupation (s) Writer, neurosurgeon. Website. www.ebenalexander.com. Eben Alexander III (born December 11, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and author. In 2008, he went under a medically-induced coma while being treated for meningitis. His book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the ...
Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American academic, neuroscientist, and primatologist. He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, and is a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery. His research has focused on neuroendocrinology, particularly relating to stress.
November 9, 1955 (age 68) Occupation (s) Physician, writer. Terry Lynn Wahls (born November 9, 1955) is an American physician and paleo diet advocate. She was an assistant chief of staff at Iowa City Veterans Administration Health Care and is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. She has a private practice and conducts ...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. [ 3 ] Being a demyelinating disease, MS disrupts the ability of parts of the nervous system to transmit signals, resulting in a range of signs and symptoms, including physical, mental, and sometimes ...
Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. D. and Dr. Death[2] for 33 incidents of gross neurosurgical malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which maimed 31 patients and caused 2 deaths. [3] He was accused of injuring 33 out of 38 ...
Morris Bender. Morris Bender (1905 in Uman, Russian Empire – January 23, 1983 in New York, New York) was an American neuroscientist and professor of neurology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Bender was among the most widely published neurologists of his generation, publishing more than two hundred peer-reviewed articles.
t. e. Kenneth M. Heilman (June 2, 1938 – July 15, 2024) was an American behavioral neurologist. He is considered one of the fathers of modern-day behavioral neurology.
Oliver Sacks. Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. [ 2 ] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. He interned at Mount Zion Hospital in ...