Max Bennett (scientist)

Max Bennett (neuroscientist)
BornFebruary 19, 1939 (1939-02-19) (age 85)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Known forNANC synapses; calcium impulses; synapse formation & regression; synapse loss & grey matter changes; energetics of synapse function
Academic background
InfluencesCharles Scott Sherrington, Bernard Katz, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Academic work
DisciplineNeuroscience of synapses
Main interestsNeuropsychiatry
Notable ideasThe mereological fallacy in neuroscience and the philosophy of mind

Maxwell Richard Bennett (born February 19, 1939) is an Australian neuroscientist specializing in the function of synapses.