David Sulzer

Dave Sulzer is a professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, and at the School of the Arts at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. He attended Michigan State University, studied plant breeding and genetics at the University of Florida, and received a PhD in biology from Columbia University. His lab has published over 200 studies on synaptic function in normal and diseased states that are cited over 40,000 times (h-index 86). He is the founder of the Dopamine Society, the Gordon Conference on Parkinson’s Disease, and the journal Nature Parkinson’s Disease.
In Paris, Sulzer plans to research a forthcoming book exploring the intersection of art and neuroscience with a focus on topics such as color perception, perspective, and the evolution of artistic expression across species, utilizing resources from the Museum of Natural History to enrich discussions and collaborate with experts like Didier Geffard-Kuriyama on illustrating the scientific aspects integral to visual arts and early human artifacts.