From Loss to Memory by Anna Huttenlocher

From Loss to Memory by Anna Huttenlocher

How do the billions of connections between neurons in our brain change as we learn and remember? This is the story of the discovery and the discoverer of synaptic pruning, the process of synapse elimination central to making us who we are. Taking the reader from Professor Peter Huttenlocher's childhood in wartime and post-war Germany to his emigration to the US to reunite with his mother and the launch and progress of a career in medicine and research, we uncover the motivations and process of scientific discovery that led to an unexpected leap in our understanding of the human brain. Decades after the discovery, the importance of synaptic pruning to early learning, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and other conditions are now in the process of being uncovered.

'Anna Huttenlocher has written a fascinating book and an important biography of her father[It] poses some deep questions about where science comes from, and provides some useful suggestions about how we might promote a healthier scientific society in the future.' Christopher Walsh, Lancet Neurology

Physician scientist Anna Huttenlocher is a Professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Her laboratory studies cell migration in inflammation and cancer. She directed the MD-Ph.D. program at UW-Madison and is a committed mentor to the next generation of physicians and biomedical scientists.

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ISBN 13	9781009267069
ISBN 10	100926706X
Title	From Loss to Memory
Author	Anna Huttenlocher
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2024-09-12
Number of pages	161
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