David Amaral
David Amaral | |
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| Born | David Gil Amaral |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University University of Rochester |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Institutions | University of California, Davis Washington University School of Medicine |
| Thesis | A Golgi Analysis of the Hilus Region of the Hippocampus: Cell Types and Postnatal Development (1977) |
| Doctoral students | Wendy Suzuki |
| Website | www |
David Gil Amaral is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, United States, and since 1998 has been the research director at the M.I.N.D. Institute, an affiliate of UC Davis, engaged in interdisciplinary research into the causes and treatment of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Amaral joined the UC Davis faculty as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center for Neuroscience and as an investigator at the California Regional Primate Research Center in 1991. Since 1995, he has been a professor of psychiatry in the UC Davis School of Medicine, with an appointment to the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience.