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Progress In Gender Equality Within The Realm Of Scientific Academia Illustrated By The Career And Life Of Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Faith Copenhaver
Progress In Gender Equality Within The Realm Of Scientific Academia Illustrated By The Career And Life Of Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Faith Copenhaver
Sound Neuroscience: An Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
Gender inequality has been a constant struggle for women throughout history with victories few and far between. The movement for women’s rights emerged with the anti-slavery movement in the mid-1800s; however, it wasn’t until the late 1800s that women were allowed to grace the distinguished and revered lecture halls of higher education, and not until 1920 that women gained the right to formally matriculate and attain degrees. Upon commencement of women into the ranks of academia, the necessity to secure women’s rights for higher education appeared to be satiated. However, gender discrimination continued to plague particular fields of study, specifically …
Ursula Bellugi: A Career Of Language Research, Allegra Campbell
Ursula Bellugi: A Career Of Language Research, Allegra Campbell
Sound Neuroscience: An Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
Ursula Bellugi is one of the prominent researchers in the psychology of language. She currently serves as the director of cognitive neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. This paper will examine three areas of Bellugi’s work from the last five decades. In the 1960s and 70s she compared the sign language acquired by Washoe the chimpanzee to human language. In the 80s and 90s her studies of deaf and non-deaf users of American Sign Language led to the conclusion that the left hemisphere is the center of all language processing. And in the last twenty years, Bellugi has …
Deborah Cabin And Her Role In The Research Of Parkinson’S Disease, Emily Convery
Deborah Cabin And Her Role In The Research Of Parkinson’S Disease, Emily Convery
Sound Neuroscience: An Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
Deborah Cabin received her PhD in physiology from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. She has worked in research labs across America investigating genetic diseases and now is a professor in structural and functional neuroscience at the University of Montana. Her interest in Parkinson’s disease is a result of the complexity and mystery presents to researchers. Since 2006 Deborah has made truly remarkable discoveries regarding the causes of the disease, focusing in particular on a protein which is suspected to contribute significantly to the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Her research aims to identify the normal role of this protein, the …
Women In Neuroscience: The Sex-Specific Work Of Jill M. Goldstein, Erin Anthony-Fick
Women In Neuroscience: The Sex-Specific Work Of Jill M. Goldstein, Erin Anthony-Fick
Sound Neuroscience: An Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
Jill M. Goldstein takes a new approach on differences in men and women. Where some see these differences in sex as inequality, she sees these differences in an anatomical cause-effect manner. More specifically, Goldstein is interested in the psychological disorder Schizophrenia. She analyzes this disorder in a male versus female fashion, exploring how the disorder impacts both of the sexes and what morphological differences can account for variances in overall effects or predisposition for development (3). Goldstein has also worked on issues pertinent to women’s health like anorexia nervosa and hormonal changes that occur with stressful events (4, 5). This …
“Above All, Don't Fear Difficult Moments. The Best Comes From Them” (1): The Life And Work Of Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Elana Hirsch
“Above All, Don't Fear Difficult Moments. The Best Comes From Them” (1): The Life And Work Of Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Elana Hirsch
Sound Neuroscience: An Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal
In the field of neuroscience, as in many other scientific disciplines, early research was dominated by men and their discoveries. However, many women have greatly impacted neuroscience from the beginning, yet, again and again, their stories go unheard—Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini is one such woman. Levi-Montalcini is most famous for her work as a neuroembryologist and for her discovery of nerve growth factor with Stanley Cohen. This discovery has proven to be incredibly important to the field of neuroscience; in fact, Levi-Montalcini and Cohen won the Noble Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1986 for their work. Nerve growth factors were …