Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

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Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Born1949 (age 7374)
Alma mater McGill University [1]
University of Massachusetts
Awards BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
Scientific career
Fields Cognitive neuroscience
Institutions University College London
Montreal Children's Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Thesis Hemispheric specialization in congenitally deaf and hearing children and adolescents  (1979)
Doctoral advisor Michael Corballis
Website iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=FVARG91

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (born 1949) is a British cognitive neuroscientist specializing in developmental amnesia among children. [2] [3] Faraneh was a part of the team that identified the FOXP2 gene, the so-called 'speech gene', that may explain why humans talk and chimps do not. [4]

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Education

Vargha-Khadem was educated at McGill University and the University of Massachusetts. [1]

Career and research

She served as head of the clinical neuropsychology service at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and director of the centre for developmental cognitive neuroscience at University College London. [5] Faraneh was the awarded the BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem". Gosh.nhs.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  2. Faraneh Vargha-Khadem publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. Vargha-Khadem, F.; Gadian, D. G.; Watkins, K. E.; Connelly, A.; Van Paesschen, W.; Mishkin, M. (1997). "Differential Effects of Early Hippocampal Pathology on Episodic and Semantic Memory". Science. 277 (5324): 376–380. doi:10.1126/science.277.5324.376. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   9219696.
  4. "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory, The Life Scientific". Bbc.co.uk. BBC . Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem". Gosh.nhs.uk. Great Ormond Street Hospital. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.