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Douglas Fields, PhD, is a neuroscientist and an international
authority on nervous system development and plasticity. He received
advanced degrees from UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, UC
San Diego, and he held postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford and
Yale Universities before joining the National Institutes of Health,
in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also Adjunct Professor at the
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program at the University of
Maryland, College Park. He has published over 150 articles in
scientific journals and books from his experimental research into
how the brain is modified by experience, and the cellular
mechanisms of memory. His scientific research has been featured
internationally in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television,
including the National Geographic, ABC News Nightline, andNPR
Morning Edition. His research on nervous system plasticity
involving non-neuronal cells (glia) in white matter regions of the
brain, is recognized as pioneering a new non-synaptic mechanism of
nervous system plasticity. In 2004, he founded the scientific
journal Neuron Glia Biology, to advance research on interactions
between neurons and glia, and he serves on the editorial boards of
several neuroscience journals.
In addition to his scientific research, Dr. Fields is author of
numerous books and magazine article about the brain written for the
general reader, including The Other Brain, about brain cells that
communicate without using electricity (glia), and Why We Snap,
about the neuroscience of sudden aggression, as well as numerous
articles in popular magazines including Outside Magazine, The
Washington Post Magazine, Scientific American and Scientific
American Mind, Time, Undark, Quanta, and on-line columns for The
Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Scientific American, the Society
for Neuroscience, BrainFacts, and others, and he is scientific
advisor to Scientific American Mind. Adam is a full time narrator
and voice talent with over 200 titles recorded for companies such
as HarperCollins, Recorded Books, Brilliance, Blackstone, AudioGo,
Tantor, Oasis, Audible, Highbridge, eChristian, Dreamscape, and
Zondervan. He is the recipient of AudioFile Earphones awards for
Pavilion of Women, by Pearl S. Buck, The Good Cop, by Brad Parks,
and The Big It, by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. In 2015 two audio book
projects he was involved with were nominated for Voice Arts Awards
from the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences. He holds his MFA in
Acting from the Chicago College of the Fine Arts at Roosevelt
University. Most recently he was handpicked by Disney/Pixar to
narrate the new novel version of Finding Dory.
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