As well as being a Geriatric Psychologist, Dr. Cone is a consultant, an accomplished speaker, an author, and founder and director of the Sound Minds Institute in Santa Monica, California. He is the author of three books: Stop Memory Loss!: How to Fight Forgetfulness Over Forty, Care Givers Bible, a book for professional caregivers of the aged, and The Abduction Enigma, a book about how therapists unwittingly induce false memories.

For five years Dr. Cone’s stress management seminars were presented to police departments of the entire state of California. His parenting, relationship, and family skills seminars were approved by the Courts of California as an alternative to incarceration. At the request of the California State Government he developed, designed, and implemented a training program for the California Conservation Corps that reduced the dropout rate by 26% in just six weeks!

Dr. Cone is a consulting psychologist in the field of geriatrics. When he is not speaking, he spends much of his time developing and implementing training programs for hospitals, corporations, and companies throughout the nation.

Because of his expertise in memory he has been featured on many television programs including “Hard Copy,” “Unsolved Mysteries,” “The Maury Povitch Show,” “Strange Universe,” Toronto's “Fifth Estate,” “Sightings,” the Learning Channel’s series, “Unnatural History,” and the prime-time special for NBC called “Confirmation.” He has been a featured speaker on dozens of radio programs nationwide.

Bill was born in Elgin, Illinois, but spent most of his childhood in the sleepy town of Douglas, Wyoming, home of the Jackalope. He has three children. Bill was a professional musician for over 20 years, appeared with acts such as Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Hendrix, and has recorded two albums and several movie soundtracks. His hobbies are hiking and collecting rare books. He currently lives in Pacific Palisades, California with two extremely ill-tempered poodles.