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David Presti, Ph.D. Esalen CTR Conference Affiliation(s): survival David E. Presti is a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist who teaches in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California in Berkeley. For many years he also worked in the treatment of addiction and of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, where he treated thousands of individuals for these conditions. His areas of interest and expertise include the chemistry of the human nervous system, the effects of drugs on the mind, and the treatment of addiction. He has doctorates in molecular biology and biophysics from the California Institute of Technology (where he worked with Nobel laureate Max Delbrück) and in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. He teaches large undergraduate courses at UC Berkeley on the subjects of "Brain, Mind, and Behavior", "Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior", and "Molecular Neurobiology and Neurochemistry,” as well as small seminar classes on “Music and the Mind” (for freshmen) and “Synaptic Pharmacology” (for graduate students). For the past three years, he has taught neuroscience to a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks in India who have been studying science. His primary research interest is the relation between mental phenomena (such as consciousness) and brain physiology, the so-called mind-body problem.
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