Bruce E Wexler, MD
Professor Emeritus of PsychiatryCards
About
Titles
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
Biography
Digital Neurotherapy: Helped launch the field with studies published in 1997, 2000.
Brain and Culture (MIT Press 2006) seminal text in cultural neuroscience.
NIH Director's Award for high impact, high innovation, paradigm changing medical research, supporting development of digital neurotherapy 2012-2016.
Founder and President "A Different Future", an NGO to reclaim the public idea space from extremists regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2002-14; Facilitator for the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, conducted U.S. State Department funded study of how "the other" is portrayed in Israeli and Palestinian school books 2007-13.
Founder and Chief Scientist, C8 Sciences 2011- present, harnessing neuroplasticity in technology-enhanced content-independent micro-cognition training and assessment programs to directly improve thinking abilities and close academic achievement gaps in 5-9 year old children, provide scalable, non-invasive micro-cognition biomarkers to transform psychiatric diagnosis and create novel digital neurotherapies that improve outcomes in ADHD, Depression, Schizophrenia and Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Founder and Chief Scientist, Neutargeton Therapeutics 2023- present, system to deliver CNS drugs to wear they are needed in the brain to increase on-target and decrease off-target effects. Patent approved in <85 days because of absence of any prior art
Appointments
Psychiatry
EmeritusPrimaryPsychiatry
Senior Research ScientistSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- MD
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1973)
- BA
- Harvard College, Government (1969)
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- April 07, 2020
Insights & Outcomes: Cardiac lag times and chemistry that’s off the scale
- September 12, 2016Source: WTNH
Study: Video games can actually help kids learn
- August 09, 2016
Wexler honored with Innovation Award for development of skills training program for students
- December 01, 2014
Roddenberry Foundation gift allows Yale team to take quantum leap in education