Susan Greenfield is the first woman to be appointed director of Britain’s
prestigious research organisation, the Royal Institution. A pharmacology
professor at the University of Oxford, you can catch up on her ideas about the
brain’s structure in The Human Brain: A Guided Tour, just out in paperback.
Published by Orion, £6.99, ISBN 0753801558.
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