David E. Presti
Teaching Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology, and Cognitive Science, Molecular and Cell Biology
Presti teachs biology, psychology, and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty in molecular and cell biology for more than 30 years. For more than a decade he worked in the clinical treatment of addiction and of post-traumatic-stress disorder at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. And since 2003, he has been teaching neuroscience and conversing about science with Tibetan Buddhist monastics in India, Bhutan, and Nepal. He has a doctorate in molecular biology and biophysics from Caltech, and another in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. His areas of expertise include human neurobiology and neurochemistry, the effects of drugs on the brain and the mind, the clinical treatment of addiction, and the scientific study of mind and consciousness.
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