Insop Shim is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Medical Science at Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Illinois, USA, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Illinois. Prof. Insop Shim is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and has served as an organizing committee member of many International conferences. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Society of Stress Medicine and the Executive Editor of Experimental Neurobiology. Prof. Shim's research interests include functional neuroanatomy, neural mechanisms responsible for motivational behaviors including stress, drugs of abuse, learning and memory, and the development of new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease, and Ischemia.