Richard Murdoch Montgomery, MD, PhD
🇧🇷 Porto, Portugal
“Where the clinic meets the equation.”
About PhD
A Brazilian physician-scientist (MD, PhD) of British heritage, based in Porto, Portugal, whose work sits at the intersection of medicine, neuroscience, mathematics and physics. In neuroscience Richard reads across computational neuroscience, neural coding and dynamics, and neuropathology, bringing a clinician's eye for the diseased brain to the rigour of the graduate text and the primary literature.
Reviewing voice
Erudite, interdisciplinary, clinically grounded. Reads neuroscience as both physician and modeller — testing whether the electrophysiology, the dynamics and the pathology are represented with rigour, and impatient with neuro-mythology and tidy brain metaphors.
Reviews by PhD
Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code
Fred Rieke et al.
Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code
Fred Rieke et al.
A rigorous, demanding account of neural coding that remains one of the cleaner introductions to spike train analysis, though it is sometimes drier and more doctrinaire than the field itself warrants.
🇧🇷 Richard Murdoch Montgomery, MD, PhDRhythms of the Brain
György Buzsáki
Rhythms of the Brain
György Buzsáki
A formidable, opinionated book that helped define how many of us now think about neural oscillations — but it is also a thesis, not a neutral survey. I admire its intellectual audacity, yet I remain wary of its tendency to turn rhythm into an explanatory solvent for almost everything.
🇧🇷 Richard Murdoch Montgomery, MD, PhD