Bruce E Wexler MD
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry

Departments & Organizations
Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health CenterBiography
NIH Director's Award for high impact, high innovation, paradigm changing medical research, 2012-2016Founder and President "A Different Future", an NGO to reclaim the public idea space from extremists regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Facilitator for the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, designed and managing U.S. State Department funded study of how "the other" is portrayed in Israeli and Palestinian school books
Founder and Chief Scientist, C8 Sciences, created C8 Kids, a brain-based content-independent pedagogy to directly improve thinking abilities in 5-9 year old children. Combines computer presented brain exercises and physical exercises.
Education
- M.D., Albert Einstein College , 1973
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Transformative Research Award(2011) , National Institutes of Health
Articles

Winter 2007
Culture and the brain
Bruce E. Wexler, M.D., professor of psychiatry, believes that understanding how our brains work can illuminate human...

Autumn 2006
Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
by Bruce E. Wexler, M.D., professor of psychology (The MIT Press) Wexler explores the social implications of the close...
Summer 2002
Hearing sounds, not words
In a recent experiment conducted by Yale scientists, bird songs, a dog’s bark and snowflakes stuck in the memories of...
Winter 1999
Bruce E. Wexler, M.D.
Bruce E. Wexler, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, participated in the consensus development conference on...

Summer 2003
High Resolution
The opening of a new Magnetic Resonance Research Center gives Yale expanded capabilities for advancing imaging science...



