David J. Linden is a Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland, USA. The author of more than ninety scientific papers, his research has received awards from the Sloan, McKnight, and Klingenstein foundations as well as the Society for Neuroscience. His first book, The Accidental Mind, was published by Harvard University Press, and he also serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology.