Nationality Canadian Occupation Neurobiology | Name Allison Doupe Died October 24, 2014 | |
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Alma mater McGill University, Harvard University | ||
Allison j doupe memorial symposium remembrances
Allison Jane Doupe (1954–24 October 2014) was an influential Canadian psychiatrist, biologist, and neuroscientist. She is best known for her pioneering work in avian neurobiology that linked birdsong to human language, showing that birds and humans learn to communicate in similar ways. In 2014, Doupe was awarded the Pradel Research Award by the National Academy of Sciences for her work on neural circuits and information processing in song birds.
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Allison j doupe memorial symposium slideshow
Life
After graduating from McGill University, Doupe obtained her MD and PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard University. She joined the University of California, San Francisco Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology in 1993.
She died on 24 October 2014, of cancer.
Publications
Brainard, Michael S.; Doupe, Allison J. (April 13, 2000). "Interruption of a basal ganglia–forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations". Nature. 404 (6779): 762–766. PMID 10783889. doi:10.1038/35008083.