Joseph Herbert (neuroscientist)

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Joe Herbert (born 8 April 1936 [1] ) is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. [2] [3]

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Education

Herbert received a BSc (Hons. Class I) in Anatomical Studies from the University of Birmingham in 1957 followed by a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1960 and a PhD in neuroendocrinology from the University of London in 1965. [1]

Career

Prior to joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 1971, Herbert was a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Birmingham. There he worked under Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, who had supervised his PhD. Herbert has been a fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1976. He was the Director of Training at the University of Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair (1992-2014) [4] and a past president (1982) of the International Academy of Sex Research. In the course of his career, Herbert has served as the PhD supervisor or Post-doctoral mentor of several distinguished British neuroscientists, including Barry Everitt, Alan Dixson, Angela Roberts, Barry Keverne, Michael Hastings, and David Abbott.

Research

Herbert's work has primarily focused on hormones; The Guardian has called him 'one of the world's leading endocrinologists.' [5] His areas of expertise include the role of hormones in the ability of the adult brain to make new nerve cells (neurons) and repair the brain; how hormones regulate behavior; the neuroscience of stress; how hormones, genes and the social and psychological environment interact to promote the risk for depression; and studies on the way that hormones and genes influence financial decision-making. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. [11] [12]

Writing

Herbert has authored two books, The Minder Brain (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007), [13] and Testosterone: Sex, Power and the Will to Win (Oxford University Press, 2015). [14]

Bullying allegation

In August 2022, Herbert was found in a report to have bullied a junior female colleague during a dispute over a controversial slavery report. [15] [16]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Professor Joe Herbert". Cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Joe Herbert - medical educator - Marquis Who's Who Biography". Marquiswhoswho.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair". Cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "The secret life of your body". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Saliva test may predict depression risk in boys". Cbsnews.com. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Depression to blame for 32,000 violent crimes a year, says Oxford University". Telegraph.co.uk. 25 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Test Could Predict Teenage Boys' Risk Of Depression - Business Insider". Business Insider. 17 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "What If Women Ran Wall Street?". NYMag.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Maybe the Meltdown's a Guy Thing". The New York Times . Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Herbert J[auth] - PubMed - NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Joe Herbert". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  13. ↑ Lightman, S (2008). "The Minder Brain". J Anat. 212 (5): 702. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00874.x. PMC   2409096 .
  14. ↑ "Cambridge Literary Festival 2015" (PDF). Cambridgeliteraryfestival.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Clarence-Smith, Louisa (8 August 2022). "Cambridge scholar 'bullied' female colleague by saying 'shut up' and 'sit down, woman'". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  16. ↑ "Sexist bullying claims during Caius slavery row 'well founded', report says". Varsity Online. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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