How do the billions of connections between neurons in our brain change as we learn and remember? This is the story of the discovery and the discoverer of synaptic pruning, the process of synapse elimination central to making us who we are. Taking the reader from Professor Peter Huttenlochers childhood in wartime and post-war Germany to his emigration to the US to reunite with his mother and the launch and progress of a career in medicine and research, we uncover the motivations and process of scientific discovery that led to an unexpected leap in our understanding of the human brain. Decades after the discovery, the importance of synaptic pruning to early learning, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimers disease and other conditions are now in the process of being uncovered.
Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Discovering Synaptic Pruning; 3. Else, Peters Mother; 4. Richard, Peters Father, and Peters Uncle Fritz; 5. Greiz: Kriegskinder (Children of War); 6. In Braubach, after the War; 7. University of Buffalo and Philosophy; 8. Harvard Medical School; 9. Understanding Sleep and Consciousness: Research at NIH; 10. Entering the Cognitive Revolution: Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology; 11. Physician First, Scientist Second?; 12. Comparative Brain Regions and Synapse Formation; 13. Stimulating Progress on Developmental Brain Disorders; 14. Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Role for Synaptic Pruning?; 15. Early Childhood Education; 16. Peter and Janellens Collaboration; 17. Microglia and the Mechanisms of Synaptic Pruning; 18. Looking Forward: Being a Physician and a Scientist; 19. Parkinsons Disease and Berlin; 20. Auf Deutsch; Reflections at the End; Glossary; Index.
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