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Marian C. Diamond (1926–2017)

Autor(a) de The Human Brain Coloring Book

4 Works 368 Membros 2 Críticas

About the Author

Marian Diamond was born Marian Cleeves in Glendale, California on November 11, 1926. She received a bachelor's degree in biology in 1948, a master's degree in anatomy in 1949, and a doctorate in anatomy in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a neuroscientist who showed that mostrar mais environmental factors can change the structure of the brain and that the brain continues to develop throughout one's life. She taught at Harvard University, Cornell University, the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Berkeley before retiring in 2014. Her book, Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence written with Janet Hopson, was published in 1998. She died on July 25, 2017 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Diamond, Marian Cleeves
Data de nascimento
1926-11-26
Data de falecimento
2017-07-25
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
United States of America
Local de nascimento
Glendale, California, USA
Local de falecimento
Oakland, California, USA
Locais de residência
La Crescenta, California, USA
Educação
Glendale Community College
University of California, Berkeley (BA | PhD)
Ocupações
professor of anatomy
Neuroscientist
professor of integrative biology
scientist
educator
Relações
Diamond, Richard M. (spouse, 1950-1979)
Scheibel, Arnold B. (spouse, 1982-2017)
Organizações
University of California, Berkeley
Cornell University

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Marian C. Diamond, née Cleeves, was born in Glendale, California and grew up in La Crescenta. She was educated with her siblings at Glendale High School and Glendale Community College, before going to the University of California, Berkeley.

After earning a bachelor's degree in 1948, she spent a summer at the University of Oslo, Norway, then returned to UC Berkeley for graduate studies, becoming the first female grad student in the department of anatomy.

While studying for her PhD degree, she also began to teach, a passion that continued well into her eighties. She received her PhD degree in human anatomy and began working as a research assistant at Harvard University in 1952. Dr. Diamond became the first woman science instructor at Cornell University in 1955. She returned to UC Berkeley in 1960 as a lecturer. She joined a research project with David Krech, Mark Rosenzweig, and Edward Bennett, as a neuroanatomist.

By 1964, she had the first evidence, from anatomical measurements, of plasticity in the mammalian cerebral cortex.
Dr. Diamond was named assistant professor in 1965, and later became a full professor. In 1984, she and her associates had access to sufficient tissue from Albert Einstein's brain to make the first-ever analysis of it, followed by publication of their research. That 1985 paper, "On the Brain of a Scientist: Albert Einstein" created controversy in academia over the role of glial cells, but also ushered in new interest in neuroglia.
Dr. Diamond was recognized as a pioneer in anatomical neuroscience whose major scientific contributions changed how we view the human brain. In 1950, she married Richard Martin Diamond, with whom she had four children before divorcing in 1979. In 1982, she remarried to Prof. Arnold Bernard Scheibel. The documentary My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond (2017) featured Dr. Diamond's life as a pioneering woman of science, her curiosity and passion for the human brain, as well as her research and love of teaching.

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Great colouring book, which definitely taught me a lot I didn't know! However, I hope this format is cleaned up for the print edition, as I found it a bit clunky. Hope to see more!
 
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MrDrake | 1 outra crítica | Mar 30, 2022 |
Don't laugh, it is actually a very helpful book! While more useful as an illustration guide, it does contain information of what functions are controlled by what portion of the brain. This is hardly going to turn you into a world class neurosurgeon, but it will help get you through Basic Anatomy class.
 
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PghDragonMan | 1 outra crítica | Aug 30, 2008 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
4
Membros
368
Popularidade
#65,433
Avaliação
½ 4.5
Críticas
2
ISBN
9
Línguas
2

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