Dale Purves

Dale Purves
Born(1938-03-11)March 11, 1938
Alma materYale University (B.A.)
Harvard Medical School (M.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
Duke University
Websitewww.purveslab.net

Dale Purves (born March 11, 1938) is an American neuroscientist. He is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, where he remains research professor with additional appointments in the department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, and the department of Philosophy at Duke University.

He was appointed to the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1973. He came to Duke in 1990 as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Duke Medical Center, and was subsequently Director of Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (2003-2009) and also served as the director of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at the Duke–NUS Medical School in Singapore (2009-2013).