About

Dean A. Haycock is a science and medical writer living in New York.

A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the National Association of Science Writers, he is the author of Murderous Minds, Exploring the Criminal Psychopathic Brain: Neurological Imaging and the Manifestation of Evil, Pegasus Books, 2014; The Everything Health Guide to Adult Bipolar Disorder, 2nd and 3rd editions, Adams Media, 2014;The Everything Health Guide to Schizophrenia, Adams Media. 2009, and Overcoming Complications of LASIK and Other Corrective Eye Surgery (with Ismail A. Shalaby, M.D., Ph.D.), Sunrise River Press. 2010. His latest book, Characters on the Couch, Exploring Psychology Through Literature and Film will be published by ABC-CLIO/Greenwood in 2016.

His clients have included WebMD, CNN.com, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet Neurology, Drug Discover and Development, The American Health Consultants’ biotechnology daily newsletters BioWorld Today and BioWorld International, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newton’s Apple, Current Biology, BioMedNet, The Gale Encyclopedia of Science; the National Institutes of Health’s Environmental Health Perspectives and NCRR Reporter; The Copley News Service, The American Chemical Society’s Reaction Times; Upstate New Yorker magazine, and other magazines and newspapers. He has consulted for The American Institute for Research in Washington, D.C., and Integrated Strategic Information Services Inc. in California.

He earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brown University and conducted research The Rockefeller University and for Sterling Winthrop/Sanofi Pharmaceutical Company.

His research has been published in the Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Brain Research, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and other academic journals.