Embark on a neuroscience adventure with a pioneering woman, helping uncover the Huntington's gene while navigating family and patient care.
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Dr. Anne Buckingham Young is a pioneering neuroscientist, the first female department chair at Mass General Hospital, and past president of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Neurological Association. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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