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 Adam
Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry
Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center
Address:
UCSF - Mission Bay
Neuroscience Research Building, Room 511C
675 Nelson Rising Lane
San Francisco, CA 94158
email: adam.gazzaley@ucsf.edu
office: 415-476-2162
lab: 415-502-7322
Photography site:
http://www.comewander.com
Curriculum Vitae: (January 2013)
Biography:
Dr. Gazzaley was born and raised in New York City. He was interested in science
since childhood and was always convinced that it was his career path. However,
he did not discover his passion for the brain until later in his undergraduate
years. He went on to receive his M.D. and Ph.D degree in Neuroscience through
the NIH-sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program at the Mount Sinai School
of Medicine in New York. His doctoral research, under the mentorship of Dr. John
Morrison, focused on plasticity of glutamate receptors in the hippocampus and
implications for cognitive changes in normal aging. This research earned him the
prestigious 1997 Krieg Cortical Scholar Award. He then completed an internship
in internal medicine and residency in neurology at the University of
Pennsylvania. Following residency, Dr. Gazzaley traveled to UC Berkeley for a
research fellowship with Dr. Mark D’Esposito and Dr. Robert Knight. The research
involved studying memory and attention in humans and the changes that occur with
normal aging using functional MRI and EEG. During that time period he also
completed a clinical fellowship in cognitive neurology at the Memory and Aging
Center under the direction of Dr. Bruce Miller and became board-certified in
neurology.
Dr. Gazzaley is the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at
the University of California, San Francisco, an Associate Professor in
Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, and Principal Investigator of a cognitive
neuroscience laboratory. His laboratory studies neural mechanisms of perception,
attention and memory, with an emphasis on the impact of distraction and
multitasking on these abilities. His unique research approach utilizes a
powerful combination of human neurophysiological tools, including functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS)). A major accomplishment of his research has been to
expand our understanding of alterations in the aging brain that lead to
cognitive decline. His most recent studies explore how we may enhance our
cognitive abilities, and/or prevent them from declining in various
neuropsychiatric conditions, via engagement with custom designed video games. He
has authored over 70 scientific articles, delivered over 250 invited
presentations around the world, and his research and perspectives have been
consistently profiled in high-impact media, such as The New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, TIME, CNN, PBS, NPR, and NBC Nightly News. Recently, he wrote
and hosted the nationally televised, PBS-sponsored special “The Distracted Mind
with Dr. Adam Gazzaley”. Awards and honors for his research include the
Pfizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Award, the Ellison Foundation New Scholar Award
in Aging, and the Harold Brenner Pepinsky Early Career Award in Neurobehavioral
Science.
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