 David Van Essen
Ph.D., Edision Professor of Neurobiology
David C. Van Essen is Edison Professor
and Head of the Anatomy & Neurobiology Department
at Washington University in St. Louis . His physiological
and anatomical studies of macaque visual cortex provide
many insights into functional specialization within
this distributed hierarchical system. He has pioneered
the use of surface-based atlases for visualizing and
analyzing cortical structure, function, and development
and for making comparisons across studies and across
species. His tension-based theory of morphogenesis
accounts for how and why the cortex gets its folds.
His studies of human cerebral cortex provide insights
regarding normal variability, abnormalities in specific
diseases, and patterns of cortical development. He
has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Neuroscience , founding chair of the OHBM, and
President of the Society for Neuroscience. He is a
fellow of the AAAS and has received the Raven Lifetime
Achievement Award from the St. Louis Academy of Sciences.
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