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Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

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]

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "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.