Allison J. Doupe

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.[1] 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.[2]

Allison Jane Doupe
Born1954
Died24 October 2014
NationalityCanadian
Alma materMcGill University,
Harvard University
OccupationNeurobiology

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 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to full professor in 2000.[3][4]

In 2008 she was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]

She died on 24 October 2014, of cancer.[3]

Publications

Doupe, Allison J.; Kuhl, Patricia K. (March 1999). "BIRDSONG AND HUMAN SPEECH: Common Themes and Mechanisms". Annual Review of Neuroscience. 22: 567–631. doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.22.1.567. PMID 10202549.

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. doi:10.1038/35008083. PMID 10783889.

Kojima, Satoshi; Kao, Mimi H.; Doupe, Allison J. (19 March 2013). "Task-related "cortical" bursting depends critically on basal ganglia input and is linked to vocal plasticity". PNAS. 110 (12): 4756–4761. doi:10.1073/pnas.1216308110. PMC 3607039. PMID 23449880.

Awards
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References
  1. Insel, TR; Landis, S (2014). "Allison Doupe (1954-2014)". Nature. 515 (7527): 344. doi:10.1038/515344a. PMID 25409820.
  2. "Pradel Research Award". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  3. "In Memoriam: Allison Doupe, MD, PhD". University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. October 27, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  4. Barondes, Samuel; Stryker, Michael P. (February 2015). "Allison Doupe: In Memoriam". Neuron. 85 (4): 667–668. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.01.030. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 25848665.
  5. "Four Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences". UC San Francisco. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  6. "NEUROSCIENCE FELLOWS in ALPHABETICAL ORDER, 1981-2014". The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  7. "Scholar Profile - Allison J. Doupe". Searle Scholars Program. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
  8. "Cozzarelli Prize | PNAS". www.pnas.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  9. "Pradel Research Award". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
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