Barbara Strauch is the Science editor at The New York Times, where she has worked since 1994. She was previously a writer and editor at Newsday for ten years, where she led a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She has also worked at newspapers in Boston, Houston, where she covered medicine and science, and as a foreign correspondent and editor in Caracas, Venezuela. Barbara lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and two teenage daughters. Her books include The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids, and most recently Secrets Of The Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents Of The Middle-Aged Mind (2010).

Barbara is supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand and The Allan Wilson Centre

Website: grownupbrain.com