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Dean Burnett

Nacido: July 31, 1982 – Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Dean Burnett is a Welsh neuroscientist and science writer whose work makes brain science and psychology accessible to general readers. He is best known for books including The Idiot Brain, Happy Brain and Psycho-Logical, and for journalism and columns that translate neuroscience research into clear, often humorous popular science.

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Dean Burnett is a Welsh neuroscientist, author and broadcaster whose career joins academic training with an unusually conversational public voice. He grew up in South Wales in a non-academic background and has said that he was the first in his family to take A-levels. He studied at Cardiff University, earning a BSc before later completing a PhD on the hippocampus and configural learning, and went on to teach psychiatry on Cardiff University’s online MSc before becoming an honorary research fellow in the School of Psychology. Running alongside that academic path was an on-and-off involvement in stand-up comedy, a strand of his life that helped shape the dry, accessible tone of his later writing. ((https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/books/dean-burnett-psycho-logical-1212722.html?utm_source=openai))

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Voces de la Comunidad

"Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist and Guardian blogger, renders the workings of the brain accessible to lay people without being patronising"

The Independent

"We love a good brain book, and Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett might just be our new favorite"

Bookish

"Author and neuroscientist Dean Burnett is attempting something very difficult in explaining the inner workings of the human brain"

PopMatters

"As a neuroscientist, comedian and Guardian science blogger, Dean Burnett knows that science communication is both important and hard to get right"

The Guardian

"I really admire Dean Burnett's work. He's very compelling and wise and rational"

Jon Ronson

"Don't get him wrong: Dean Burnett loves the brain as much as the next neuroscientist"

Smithsonian

"Dean Burnett says the human brain is like a computer that files information in a way that defies logic"

Fresh Air

"Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist, is also a massively popular science blogger for The Guardian newspaper"

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