Who is Marc Lewis?

As a neuroscientist and one-time addict, Marc Lewis can draw on personal experience as well as scientific knowledge when it comes to understanding addiction. Years of drug abuse led him to a criminal conviction and dismissal from graduate school at the age of 27. Marc then kicked the habit, returned to school, and earned a PhD in developmental psychology (1989).

After working as a professor at the University of Toronto for 21 years, he and his family recently moved to the Netherlands, where he now teaches at Radboud University Nijmegen. Marc Lewis conducts research on the neuroscience of addiction between his commitments as a pop-science writer, blogger, and speaker in the addiction community.

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Marc is on Twitter. His personal blog is www.memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com and it includes an ongoing and often lively dialogue among reader/participants who have struggled with or studied addiction.