Peter Sterling

Peter Sterling is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His book What is Health? will be published by MIT Press in 2020.

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How Neuroscience Could Explain the Rise of Addictions, Heart Disease and Diabetes in 21st Century America

The conditions of human life began to improve with the Enlightenment of the 18th century, and we are better off now by many measures: food access, health, lifespan, and so on.But it hasn’t been an...

By Peter Sterling
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