Member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange for the National Academy of Sciences.
He writes the blog "Grand Rounds" for Psychology Today.
He has published articles in academic journals about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Napoleon Dynamite, Marilyn Manson, and Alice Cooper.
His interest in zombies began after he gave a lecture on zombie neuroscience for the Coolidge Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts, before a screening of Night of the Living Dead.