Peter C. Whybrow, M.D.

Dr. Peter Whybrow is Director of the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. He is also the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and CEO of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA. Dr. Whybrow is an international authority on depression and manic-depressive disease and a frequent advisor to universities, foundations, and government agencies.

As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, he is interested in human behavior: who we are, why we behave the way we do, and how we can build a commonsense, sustainable future. In Dr. Whybrow’s most recent book, American Mania: When More Is Not Enough, he explored the stress, obesity, anxiety and time urgency that a materially rich, demand driven lifestyle seem to engender. He is now working on a new book, tentatively entitled The Intuitive Mind: Common Sense for the Common Good, in which he looks at how we might begin to repair the damage.