I was born in Chicago, 1940, then lived in Los Angeles, 1948-1958. Stanford University, B.A, dropped out of Harvard Law School, Ph.D in Psychology from M.I.T. Postdoctoral research in Munich and Seattle before moving to Montreal in 1971. I taught neurobiology at McGill University for 38 years, during which time I also did research on snail brains and snail sex, hence my book, Behavior and its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs,. Since my retirement, I have written about mental illness. The Physical Basis describes how one's philosophical views of the mind-body problem influence his or her attitudes toward mental illness. Schizophrenia is a much more personal book. It is both a memoir of my brother and a scientific account of the disease; this book was more than 50 years in the making.
