Paul Broks
Dr Paul Broks is a neuropsychologist and revered science writer. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford and has conducted research at Oxford and in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to building a clinical practice, he has held senior clinical lectureships at the universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, and Plymouth. His books, Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology and The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey interweave neuroscience, philosophy, and personal narrative, and his scientific research has appeared in academic journals including Brain, Neuropsychologia, and Neuroimage.
Into the Silent Land inspired the play On Ego (Oberon Modern Plays, 2005), which Paul co-wrote and which was commissioned by Soho Theatre. It has since been staged in New York, off-Broadway, in several other US cities, and in Australia and Europe.
Paul writes regularly across genres, including for film and radio. He wrote and co-presented several episodes of Melvyn Bragg’s BBC Radio 4 series, ‘A History of Ideas’, and ‘Dr. Broks’s Casebook’ (BBC Radio 4), and contributed to several editions of WNYC’s Radiolab. He has also written regular columns for Prospect magazine and for The Times (Times 2 health section), as well as numerous book reviews and other articles for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times (London), Sunday Telegraph, and Literary Review, among others.
He served as writer, presenter, and associate producer for the feature-length documentary film Martino Unstrung (Sixteen Films, Dir. Ian Knox, 2008), and wrote the script for Rupture – A Matter of Life or Death (Hudson Films, Dir. Hugh Hudson, 2011).
