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).

Written by Joe Herbert

Black and white photo of white young men in dark clothes, some hooded, with police officers and police vans in the background.

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Childhood and adolescence

What every dictator knows: young men are natural fanatics

Joe Herbert

Two surgeons in green surgical caps watching a monitor displaying an internal medical procedure with red and white tissues visible.

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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?

Joe Herbert