McGovern Institute's Graybiel Receives Honorary Mt. Sinai Doctorate

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McGovern Institute's Graybiel Receives Honorary Mt. Sinai Doctorate

"Landmark' Contributions to Field of Neuroscience Cited

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, Jun. 2 -/E-Wire/Business Wire/-- Ann Graybiel, Ph.D., principal investigator at the McGovern Institute at MIT, and recipient of the 2001 National Medal of Science -- has been conferred with an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Mount Sinai Medical School. The ceremony took place during the school's 34th Commencement, held on May 9th.

In its citation, Mount Sinai described Dr. Graybiel's work as "innovative" and "pioneering," and categorized her contributions as "landmark."

"Those suffering from Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette syndrome all look to her work for the hope it offers of new treatments and, perhaps, of cures. Her discovery...has produced profound insights regarding movement, cognition and learning.

"Her studies...led to pioneering work on...certain neuropsychiatric disorders as well as drugs of addiction. She has also discovered that cells in the striatum undergo major reorganization when habits are learned and as familiar tasks come to be performed in the nearly automatic fashion that typifies habitual activity. Her research is leading to new approaches to learning and unlearning habits."

For more on Dr. Graybiel's work, and for further information on the McGovern Institute, go to:

http://mit.edu/mcgovern/html/Principal_Investigators/graybiel.shtml

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