Dr. Ben Hayden graduated from Rice in 2000, did a PhD at UC Berkeley (2005) and a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University (2011). He was an Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, and has been a Professor of Neurosurgery at BCM since 2023. His research has focused on decision-making in naturalistic contexts, and especially on the role of prefrontal cortex in decision-making.