Word: neuroanatomist
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Diamond is an esteemed neuroanatomist and one of the most admired professors at the University of California, Berkeley. It would be a privilege for anyone to sit in on her lectures. And, in fact, anyone can. Videos of her popular course are available free online, part of a growing movement by academic institutions worldwide to open their once exclusive halls to all who want to peek inside. Whether you'd like to learn algebra from a mathematician at MIT, watch how to make crawfish étouffée from an instructor at the Culinary Institute of America or study blues guitar...
...other panel, about the biological nature of homosexuality, began with a presentation by Simon LeVay, a prominent neuroanatomist who authored the famous 1991 study demonstrating that heterosexuals and homosexuals have different brain structures. He presented similar research results at the panel, showing genetic differences between straight...
...began as a neuroanatomist," Murphy said. "He's always been an extremely strong clinical neurologist...
These conjectures about the corpus callosum have been hard to prove because the structure's girth varies dramatically with both age and health. Studies of autopsied material are of little use because brain tissue undergoes such dramatic changes in the hours after death. Neuroanatomist Laura Allen and neuroendocrinologist Roger Gorski of UCLA decided to try to circumvent some of these problems by obtaining brain scans from live, apparently healthy people. In their investigation of 146 subjects, published in April, they confirmed that parts of the corpus callosum were up to 23% wider in women than in men. They also measured...
...freshman biology students know enough to sink this study," declares Anne Fausto-Sterling, professor of medical science at Brown University. Others are more receptive to LeVay's work. "It makes sense," says Laura Allen, a neuroanatomist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Finding a difference in the INAH, which influences male sexual behavior, "is what one would expect." The finding also has social implications. "People who believe that sexual orientation is a choice help legitimize discrimination against homosexuals," says Melissa Hines, a UCLA psychologist. "But if it is immutable, or partly so, then that argues for legal protections...