What is Susan Greenfield?
{{Infobox Politician | honorific-prefix = <small>[[The Right Honourable]]</small> | name = The Baroness Greenfield | honorific-suffix = <small> [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]</small> | image = Susan greenfield.jpg <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see [[WP:NONFREE]] --> | | imagesize = | caption = Susan Greenfield giving a talk at [[Saïd Business School]] in March 2006 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|10|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Hammersmith, [[London]], [[England]] | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] | party = none ([[crossbench]]) | spouse = Peter Atkins (1991–2005) | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]] | occupation = [[Academic]], [[scientist]] | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield''', (born [[Hammersmith]], [[London]], 1 October 1950) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[scientist]], [[writer]] and [[Presenter|broadcaster]]. She specializes in studying how the human [[brain]] works and has done a lot of research into diseases such as [[Parkinson's disease]] and [[Alzheimer's disease]] which are common in older people. She has written several books and appeared frequently on radio and [[television]]. She is very good at explaining what she does to the wide public, using words that ordinary people (non-scientists) can understand. In 1994, she gave the series of Christmas lectures on television for young children. ==Life and work== Susan Greenfield was born in Hammersmith, West London. Her parents were of [[Russia]]n and [[Austria]]n origin. She studied at the [[University of Oxford]] and also got a [[doctorate]] degree from the College de France in [[Paris]]. She is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford and fellow of Lincoln College. She is the head of a group of