Paul Abramson

Research Professor, Psychology, UCLA

Denis Alexander

Emeritus Director, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge

Paul Allen

Professor of Theological Studies, Concordia University

Nancy Andreasen

Woods Chair of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine

Francisco Ayala

Former University Professor, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine

David Baltimore

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; President Emeritus, Distinguished Professor of Biology, Caltech

Robert Bilder

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA

Colin Blakemore

Director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosphy, University of London

Roger Blandford

Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Stanford University

Joseph Bogen

Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, USC; Visiting Professor, Caltech

David Brin

Science fiction writer, Futurist, Public Intellectual

Leslie Brothers

Psychiatrist; Author

Warren Brown

Professor of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary

Vern Bullough

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo; former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

Alexander Capron

Professor, Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy, and Ethics; Professor of Law and Medicine, USC

Hyla Cass

Medical Doctor of Integrated Medicine

Daniel Chamovitz

President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)

Anjan Chatterjee

Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania

Deepak Chopra

Medical Doctor; Author; Founder, Chopra Center

Carmine Clemente

Professor of Anatomy, former Director of the Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles

Francis Collins

Physician-Geneticist; former Director, National Insitutes of Health

Eric Courchesne

Professor, Neurosciences, UC San Diego

Michael Crichton

Author and Filmmaker

Antonio Damasio

David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, and Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, USC

Paul Davies

Regents' Professor, Arizona State University

Agnes Day

Professor, Former Chair, Department of Microbiology, Howard University

Arthur S. De Vany

Professor Emeritus of Economics, UC Irvine

Murali Doraiswamy

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University

David Eagleman

Neuroscientist, Stanford University

Elissa Epel

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco

Paul Ewald

Professor of Biology, University of Louisville

Leon Glass

Meritus Professor and the Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology, McGill University

Susan Greenfield

Neuroscientist, Writer, Broadcaster, Entrepreneur; former Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford

Niels Gregersen

Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen

Stuart Hameroff

Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology and Psychology; Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona

Suzanne Hanser

Chair Emerita, Music Therapy Department, Berklee College of Music

Alice Huang

Senior Faculty Associate in Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech; former Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard; Dean of Science, NYU; President, AAAS

Portia Iversen

Autism Research & Advocacy; Co-founder of Cure Autism Now Foundation

William Jarvis

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda University; Skeptic

Stuart Kauffman

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Univesity of Pennsylvania; Santa Fe Institute

Daniel Labriola

Founder & Director, Northwest Natural Health (Naturopathic)

Joseph LeDoux

Henry And Lucy Moses Professor of Science; Professor of Neural Science, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University

Rodolfo Llinas

Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Kelsey Martin

Director, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative; former Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Jennifer Mather

Professor of Psychology, University of Lethbridge

John Mazziotta

Vice Chancellor, UCLA Health Sciences; CEO, UCLA Health

Patrick McNamara

Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston University

Michael Merzenich

Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco; Kavli Laureate in Neuroscience

Max More

Founder, Extropy Institute

Soma Mukhopādhyāy

Creator of Rapid Prompting Method for Autism (unproven/controversial)

Tito Mukhopādhyāy

Autistic Non-Speaker; author/poet (controversial)

Martin Nowak

Professor of Mathematics and Biology, Harvard University

Sherwin Nuland

Former Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale University; Author

Sam Parnia

Associate Professor, Medicine; Director, Critical Care and Resuscitation Research, NYU Langone

Cliff & Joyce Penner

Sexual Therapists & Educators

Peitro Perona

Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

V.S. Ramachandran

Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, UC San Diego

Wallace Sampson

Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine, Stanford University

Dimitar Sasselov

Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Origins of Life Initiative, Harvard University

John Schlag

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology, UCLA

Jeff Schloss

Distinguished Professor of Biology, Westmont College

Erin Schuman

Director, Department of Synaptic Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Terrance Sejnowski

Professor and Laboratory Head, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

Lucy Shapiro

Professor. Developmental Biology, Stanford Medicine

Rupert Sheldrake

Biologist and Author; former Director, Perrott-Warrick Project, Cambridge

Robert Stickgold

Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard University

Gregory Stock

Former Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology & Society, UCLA School of Medicine

Raymond Tallis

Philosopher, Essayist, Medical Doctor

Rudolph Tanzi

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Robert Temple

Deputy Center Director for Clinical Science and Senior Advisor, Office of New Drugs, FDA

Neil Theise

Professor of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Allan Tobin

Chair in Neuroscience, Emeritus; Director Emeritus, UCLA Brain Research Institute

Giulio Tononi

Professor and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Conssciousness, University of Wisconsin

Mark Tramo

Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science; Neurologist, Good Samaritan Hospital

Robert Trivers

Evolutionary Biologist and Sociobiologist

Natasha Vita-More

Humanist and Transhumanist

Roy Walford

Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA

Roger Walsh

Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UC Irvine

Judith Wolfe

Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of St. Andrews

Semir Zeki

Professor of Neuroaesthetics, University College London

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