About the Author
Jon Horvitz grew up in Philadelphia, and graduated from Haverford College before receiving his PhD in Psychology at UC, Santa Barbara. After post-doctoral work in neuroscience at Princeton University, he was a professor of psychology at Columbia University, Boston College, and now City College of New York/CUNY. A passionate teacher who enjoys finding ways to excite his students, his brain-mind courses have won many accolades. His research examines brain circuits underlying natural and drug rewards, and he has been a grant reviewer for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He loves to play jazz piano. He and his wife regularly travel to Spain to visit her family.
Barry Jacobs was a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University. He taught one of the university’s most popular courses, ‘The Brain: A User’s Guide’, and was a leading researcher in the areas of serotonin, sleep, and depression. He grew up in Chicago, graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and received his doctorate in psychology from the University of California-Los Angeles. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the psychiatry department at Stanford University Medical School before coming to Princeton. He has taken joy in being a mentor to many young neuroscientists throughout the world.
