Formative Influences
When at school, Zeki got acquainted with work on the brain, especially from John Zachary Young and vowed to work with him, which he did, at University College London. He initially studied anthropology, then switched to medicine, finally taking a PhD in anatomy.
Zeki then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC before returning to University College London as Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society.
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