Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd is professor of neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine. He is the author of Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s and the third edition of Neurobiology; editor of The Synaptic Organization of the Brain; and former editor in chief of the Journal of Neuroscience. Having made important contributions to the synaptic organization of the brain, his current research focuses on olfaction at the level of microcircuits and their construction of the spatial patterns of smell that are essential for the perception of flavor.
