Nathaniel A. Buchwald

Buchwald started working as an anatomy instructor at Tulane University Medical School in 1953.

In 1957 he returned to the University of California, Los Angeles to work at the new Brain Research Institute.

Buchwald was an "internationally renowned neuroscientist and electrophysiologist who made pioneering seminal contributions concerning the functions of the basal ganglia, areas of the brain involved in the etiology of neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, and of specific forms of developmental disabilities".

[2] He was "one of the first neuroscientists to study electrophysiology in subcortical brain nuclei in awake and unrestrained animals.

Starting with his classic experiments on the “caudate spindle” published in the major journal of the early 1960s Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Nat and his colleagues, especially his closest and longest collaborator, Chester D. Hull, Ph.D., maintained a continuing examination of how neurons in the basal ganglia communicate with each other and how this communication is altered in models of diseases and during maturation".