Richard Restak

Richard Restak, M.D., is an award-winning neuroscientist, neuropsychiatrist, and clinical professor of neurology at the George Washington University Medical Center. He is the bestselling author of eighteen acclaimed books about the brain, including The Brain, a companion to the PBS series of the same name; Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot; The Secret Life of the Brain; and The Brain Has a Mind of Its Own. Restak has also written articles for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and other publications. A member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Neuropsychiatric Association, he lives in Washington, D.C.