For the past 38 years I've been a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, in the Graduate School of the City University of New York, with my office and laboratory on the campus of City College.

After working as a research assistant first at Mt. Sinai Hospital Atran Laboratories, then Downstate Medical School and finally at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, engaging in animal and human brain research, I earned a doctoral degree (1969) in Psychology and Neuroscience (Univ. of Colorado). My doctoral dissertation centered on the role of sleep in memory storage processes. The discovery made in that research began a science career that I have sustained to this very day. My doctoral research led to a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at the University of California, Irvine. Upon completing my postdoc I was recruited and accepted a position on the faculty of the Graduate School of CUNY where I have been teaching and continuing to engage in grant supported research. Several years afterwards I was a recipient of a National Science Foundation fellowship and spent the next two years at the Centre National de Rescherch Scientifique (France's equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health), just outside Paris. In parallel with my own research activities, for several years, I was an invited research scientist in the Alzheimer's Clinical Research Center at New York University engaging in Alzheimer's studies. My research over these many years has been funded by grants from the City University of New York, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. I have over 150 publications, including a book, book chapters, original research experiments and countless presentations at neuroscience meetings.

My "Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sleep" at CCNY, continues to produce research in the areas of the neurobiology of sleep and memory, with a cadre of master's and doctoral students working under my mentorship.

In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in abnormal psychology, behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology, I have also, for the past 33 years, maintained a private clinical psychology practice on Manhattan's Upper East Side.