The Feb. 20 Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted experiences by UCLA scientists who have been targeted by anti–animal research extremists’ harassment and violent attacks. David Jentsch, professor of psychiatry; Dario Ringach, professor of neurobiology; Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology and chair of neurobiology; and Kevin Reed, vice chancellor for legal affairs, were quoted. “One Animal Researcher Refuses to Hide”
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Animal-Researcher-Will-Not/126442/
Dr. Alcino Silva, professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine and a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute, commented Jan. 26 in Science on a new study identifying a naturally occurring hormone that boosts memory retention in animals.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/01/growth-hormone-also-a-memory-boo.html