In 2016, he merged the three UCSF entities (Gazzaley Lab, Neuroscience Imaging Center and Neuroscape Lab) into one research center – Neuroscape — with the mission of bridging technology and neuroscience to create real-world solutions to enhance brain function.

In 2016, Gazzaley co-founded Sensync, a company creating a Sensory Immersion Vessel to offer a novel wellness treatment called the Deep Brain Massage. He serves as its Chief Science Advisor

In 2015, he co-founded JAZZ Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in experiential technology to improve human performance, and serves as its Chief Scientist.

Gazzaley has delivered over 650 invited talks around the world on his research and perspectives. His public speaking has been recognized by receiving the 2015 Science Educator Award by the Society of Neuroscience.

He has been profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Discover, Wired, PBS, NPR, CNN, NBC Nightly News., The Today Show. In 2013, he wrote and hosted the nationally televised, PBS-sponsored special, “The Distracted Mind with Dr. Adam Gazzaley”. In 2014, he co-hosted TEDMED. He has appeared in TV documentaries.

In 2011, Gazzaley co-founded Akili Interactive Labs, a company working to create digital medicine via scientifically validated video games, and serves as its Chief Science Advisor.

Several of Gazzaley’s studies explore how cognitive abilities may be enhanced via engagement with custom designed video games, neurofeedback and TES. In 2009 he designed a video game, NeuroRacer, to enhance cognitive abilities of older adults. In a study published in 2013 as the cover story of Nature he showed that the multitasking nature of the game caused improvements in tasks outside of the game involving working memory and sustained attention.

Gazzaley founded Gazzaley Lab at UCSF in 2006 and the UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center in 2007. His research approach uses a combination of human neurophysiological tools, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial stimulation (TES). He used this approach to show that older adults exhibit neural deficits in suppressing distractions and also while multitasking.

Following residency in 2002, Gazzaley had a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, and simultaneously worked as Attending Neurologist at the Northern California VA Medical Center, UCSF Medical Center and completed a clinical fellowship in cognitive neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center where he became board-certified in neurology.

In 2001, Gazzaley founded his first company, Wanderings Inc, to sell fine art prints of his nature photography.

Gazzaley graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1986. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from Binghamton University in 1990, followed by M.D. and PhD degrees in Neuroscience through the NIH-sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His doctoral research on plasticity of glutamate receptors in the hippocampus and implications for cognitive changes in normal aging earned him the 1997 Krieg Cortical Scholar Award. He completed an internship in internal medicine (1998–1999) and residency in neurology (1999–2002) at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Adam Gazzaley (born December 29, 1968) is an American neuroscientist, author, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder and executive director of Neuroscape and the David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is co-founder and Chief Science Advisor of Akili Interactive Labs, JAZZ Venture Partners, and Sensync. He is a Board of Trustee member and a Science Council member of the California Academy of Sciences. He has authored over 140 scientific articles.