Mayim Bialik, PH.D.

MAYIM HOYA BIALIK is best known for her role in the early 1990’s NBC sitcom “Blossom.” Bialik was born to first generation Jewish American parents who were documentary filmmakers and teachers. She drew international attention when she played the young Bette Midler in “Beaches” in 1989 and has had guest roles on some of television’s most beloved shows of the 1980s and 199s, such as “MacGuyver”, “Webster”, and “The Facts of Life”. She appeared in Woody Allen’s “Don’t Drink the Water” in 1994, and has more recently appeared HBO's “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. She recurs as Counselor Bink on ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” will appear as Nancy Kurshan in “The Chicago 8” (to be released this year), and continues a recurring role as Sheldon Cooper’s love interest on CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory” and through 2012.

Bialik earned a B.S. in Neuroscience and Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 2007 from UCLA. Her thesis in psychoneuroendrocrinology examined Hypothalamic Secretions and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in adolescents with Prader-Willi syndrome, specializing in the hormones of attachment and their role in obsessive and compulsive behaviors. Dr. Bialik designs and teaches a Neuroscience curriculum to Junior High School homeschoolers in Southern California, where she also teaches Hebrew.

Bialik is married to her college sweetheart and has two sons: Miles Roosevelt, born naturally in 2005 and Frederick Heschel, born at home (unassisted until the final push) in 2008. She is the celebrity spokesperson for the Holistic Moms Network and she speaks nationally and internationally on topics including green and holistic parenting, religion and observance, feminism, and the industry that has employed her sin she was a child. She has written on these and other topics for both online and print magazine and newspapers and has been featured in an array of popular media as well.

Dr. Bialik has completed coursework and training to be Certified Lactation Educator/Consultant (CLEC), and plans to continue on after this certification to be an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).

Touchstone Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, will release Bialik’s first book, BEYOND THE SLING: A Real-Life Guide to Raising Confident, Loving Children the Attachment Parenting Way with an introduction by Dr. Jay Gordon in March 2012.

Please visit: http://www.mayimbialik.net or www.simonandschuster.com for more information.