Description: Throughout his career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, and roundworms. He offers a close-up, conversational perspective on a 50-year quest to understand how behavior is regulated in vertebrates.
Brief description: Donald Pfaff is Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University in New York City.
Review Quotes: This book is an authoritative, historical account of our understanding of the brain and behavior, and serves as an important example of how intellectual curiosity drives science forward.--Eric B. Keverne, University of Cambridge