David J. Linden, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular substrates of memory storage in the brain and a few other topics. You can see a list of some of his lab's recent scientific papers here. He has a longstanding interest in scientific communication and serves as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his two children.
He is represented by Scott Moyers of The Wylie Agency.
His next book, The Compass of Pleasure: How our brains make fatty foods, orgasm, exercise, marijuana, generosity, vodka, learning and gambling feel so good, will be published by Viking Press. Publication date: April 14, 2011.