Katalin Gothard is professor of physiology, neurology and neuroscience at the University of Arizona. She obtained her M.D., followed by postgraduate training in neurosurgery, at Timisoara Medical School in Romania. After earning her Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Arizona, she continued her training at the National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, where she began her research on the neurophysiology of the amygdala and the socio-emotional behavior of macaques. She pioneered methods of monitoring brain activity in the context of natural social behaviors, simultaneously tracking brain activity, observable social behaviors and associated autonomic changes. Measuring brain-body interactions in real time helps scientists understand health and disease from the perspective of the individual, whose organ-level functions and mental-emotional life are in constant conversation.
Katalin Gothard
Professor of physiology, neurology and neuroscience
University of Arizona
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