Dr. Elizabeth Gould received her B.A. in Psychology from St. John’s University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from U.C.L.A. and did her postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University under the mentorship of Bruce McEwen. She is currently the Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. For the past two decades, Gould has studied adult neurogenesis and other forms of structural plasticity. Her work focuses on the regulation of new neurons by experience, including stress, physical activity and parenting, findings that have implications for normal brain function and brain repair. She has published over 100 articles on structural plasticity and is co-author of an Introductory Psychology textbook. As a result of her work on adult neurogenesis, Professor Gould was awarded the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award and the Royal Society of the Arts Benjamin Franklin Award.