Dean A. Haycock, PhD

Dean A. Haycock, PHD, is a science and medical writer living in New York. His books include Murderous Minds: Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil, Characters on the Couch: Exploring Psychology Through Literature and Film; The Everything Health Guide to Adult Bipolar Disorder, Second and Third Editions, and The Everything Health Guide to Schizophrenia.

He earned a PhD in neurobiology from Brown University and a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health to study at The Rockefeller University. The results of his research, conducted in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry, have been published in Brain Research, the Journal of Neurochemistry, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, and the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, among others.

His feature articles have appeared in many newspapers, magazines, and other outlets, including the Huffington Post, Salon, WebMD, Annals of Internal Medicine, the Lancet Neurology, Drug Discovery and Development, BioWorld Today, BioWorld International, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Current Biology. In addition, he has contributed articles on a variety of topics to The Gale Encyclopedia of Science and The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health.