Joe Herbert

Emeritus professor of neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Joe Herbert is emeritus professor of neuroscience at the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to Win (2015).

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Childhood and adolescence

What every dictator knows: young men are natural fanatics

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Illness and disease

Cracking the skull open

Most of our organs can be treated as repairable machines. Why can’t we treat mental illness by simply fixing the brain?

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