Steven A. Siegelbaum PhD

Steven Siegelbaum, Ph.D., is leading efforts to understand how electrical signals in the brain encode memories that can last a lifetime, and how changes to these signals play a role in psychiatric disorders.

When neuroscientist Steven Siegelbaum, Ph.D., first came to Columbia in 1981, his interests lay not in the mind — but in the heart and he spent his early career studying what regulates a heartbeat, work that he had intended to continue at Columbia,” said Dr. Siegelbaum, a principal investigator at the University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. “But when he arrived, there was a mix-up and his lab wasn’t ready.”