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Stuart M. Zola, PhD

Stuart M. Zola, PhDStuart Zola is Director of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University and Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine. He also holds a senior research career scientist position at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, the highest honor the Veterans Administration bestows. As director of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Dr. Zola oversees the diverse research programs that address health issues such as AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases, cocaine addiction, childhood visual deficits, organ transplantation, and cognitive development and decline. Scientists at Yerkes also study social behavior in nonhuman primates.

Dr. Zola is one of the nation’s leading neuroscientists and has contributed valuable insights into how the brain organizes memory and how this relates to memory problems such as amnesia. He is also regarded as a leader in how to better communicate science and research to the general public. His own research focuses on memory, its formation, consolidation, and retrieval. He is perhaps best known for developing an animal model of human amnesia that conclusively identified brain structures critical to memory function. His research has contributed significant insights into the memory loss in humans that results from head trauma and characterizes progressive diseases such as Alzheimer’s. His research also has provided knowledge about less severe memory problems that often accompany depression, chronic stress, and normal aging.

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