We believe there’s a superhero in each of us. True Superheroes celebrates people who’ve overcome adversity, made amazing contributions to society, and inspired others to do the same. Each week we nominate people in different fields. This week we focus on Neuroscience.
Bianca Jones Marlin
As a child, Bianca learned the importance of family from her many foster siblings, and those lessons would shape her remarkable academic career. She began by making groundbreaking discoveries about the role of oxytocin - the “love hormone” - in the bond between mother and child. Now she’s researching the extraordinary phenomenon of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, showing how traumatic experiences can be passed down through the generations in our genetic traits.
When he fell through a hole while playing on a construction site as a child, David seemed to have a surprising amount of time to ponder his fate as he descended. He set out to study this phenomenon and spent years investigating the way the brain processes sensory information. Now he’s creating amazing products that can help everyone from the hard of hearing to drone pilots find new ways of making sense of their senses.
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An Austrian Jew who fled Vienna as a child in 1939, Eric Kandel resolved on arrival in Brooklyn to dedicate himself to studying and understanding the working of the mind. His pioneering research into the brain activity of sea slugs broke new ground for our understanding of how the human brain learns and retains information, and led to Kandel being awarded a Nobel Prize in 2000.
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