Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D.

Dwayne Godwin, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist, an educator, and an academic leader who is a professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience and served as graduate dean at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His research centers on the cellular basis of abnormal brain rhythms, including active projects on calcium channel function, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury. His goal is to use emerging insights about the brain to develop treatments and potential cures for neurological diseases. His science outreach includes Mind in Pictures, co-created with Jorge Cham, Ph.D. for Scientific American Mind, as well as blogs for the Society for Neuroscience and the Museum of the Moving Image.

His new book, co-authored with Jorge Cham, Ph.D., is Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain.