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]

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Born1949 (age 73–74)
Alma materMcGill University[1]
University of Massachusetts
AwardsBPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Montreal Children's Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
ThesisHemispheric specialization in congenitally deaf and hearing children and adolescents (1979)
Doctoral advisorMichael Corballis
Websiteiris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=FVARG91

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. "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.


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