Nora Volkow

Nora Volkow Dolores ( born March 27, 1956 in Mexico City) is an American neuroscientist and addiction expert.

Volkow is the second of four daughters Esteban Volkov and thus a great-granddaughter of Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky. She attended the Modern American School in Mexico City and studied medicine at the National University of Mexico, where she received the Premio Robins award.

Volkow went for further training in the United States, where she studied at New York University and was awarded the Laughlin Fellowship Award. She then worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Medical School of the State University of New York. Since 2003 she has been director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Volkow is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was listed in the TIME 100 list of most influential people in 2007.