Unconscious and plasticity: Bridges between psychoanalysis and neuroscience

Elias D. Kouvelas, MD, PhD, is emeritus professor of physiology in the faculty of medicine, University of Patras, Greece, having served as its chairman from 1978 to 2005. He has also worked at the following institutions: Harvard Biological Laboratories (visiting professor, 1979); department of pharmacology, New York University Medical Center (1984–1985); laboratory of physiology, Oxford University (1997); department of neuropathology, Harvard Medical School (research associate, 1974–1978); department of anatomy, San Francisco Medical Center (July–September 1977); and University of North Carolina (neurobiology trainee, 1969–1970). He is member of the European Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and previously a member of the Greek National Advisory Council for Research (1987–1991, 1994–1995).