Bernard M. Patten

Dr. Bernard M. Patten, an instructor of memory, neuroscience, and logic at Rice University and the Women’s Institute of Houston, has been featured on 60 Minutes, Frontline, TF-1, BBC TV, German National TV, and Australian National TV.

Dr. Patten holds an A.B. from Columbia College summa cum laude and graduated second in his class from Columbia's Medical School with an MD. He interned at Cornell and did his Neurology training at the Neurological Institute of New York, where he was Chief Resident Neurologist. Before acting as the assistant chief of medical neurology at the National Institutes of Health, he was the Memory Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and set up the first memory clinic and memory consultation service in America. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Montpellier in France, the Charcot Clinic in Paris, and the Karolinska in Stockholm.

As the vice chair of the Department of Neurology and chief of nerve and muscle diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Patten published over 100 scientific papers. He is the author of eight non-medical books in print, and his most notable professional accomplishments include being part of the team of physicians who discovered the L-DOPA treatment for Parkinson's Disease.