Talk:Carla J. Shatz

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This statement in the article should probably be deleted:

It is Carla Shatz who coined in the nineties the famous sentence summarizing the Hebbian theory : "Cells that fire together, wire together". The exact phrase, first published in a Scientific American Article published in 1992 is: "Segregation to form the columns in the visual cortex [...] proceeds when the two nerves are stimulated asynchronously. In a sense, then, cells that fire together wire together. The timing of action-potential activity is critical in determining which synaptic connections are strengthened and retained and which are weakened and eliminated".[3]

I have been tracking the phrase down, and as for being published, appeared in Sigrid Löwel's Science article, January 1992. Shatz's piece was published in September.

I wrote Löwel to find out who came up with the phrase. She wrote back:

"well, I came up with the expression and published it – as far as I know – first (in my 1992-Science-paper together with Wolf Singer: Löwel & Singer, 1992, Science 255: 209-212)."

Note that on another Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_theory the attribution is correctly made to Löwel.

I am tempted to make the edit myself, but thought Carla or someone else should have chance to respond first. from Curtis Kelly ctskelly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ctskelly (talk • contribs) 22:09, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Papers
Can someone cull down the list of important papers? It seems excessive to have a full page worth of citations. Natureium (talk) 14:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
COI: I am currently employed with Stanford University

Looking at Dr. Shatz’s Wikipedia page, there is an inaccuracy: She was not the first female to be granted tenure at Stanford Medical School, but was the first female basic scientist to be granted tenure at Stanford Medical School. There were already a few other tenured female faculty in other areas at the Medical School at that time.

Requesting this sentence be edits in the top section of the article: “She was the first woman to receive a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard, to win a tenured position in basic sciences at Stanford Medical School and to head Harvard's Department of Neurobiology.[1]

Links are provided below to various articles/biographies/interviews with information concerning this and about Dr. Shatz:

https://news.syr.edu/2016/11/stanfords-carla-shatz-to-deliver-kameshwar-c-wali-lecture-dec-8-33614/ “ At Stanford, she was the first woman hired by the School of Medicine and then awarded tenure in the basic sciences.”

http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/05/brainy-women.html

http://www.kavliprize.org/sites/default/files/Carla%20Shatz%20autobiography.pdf

www.kavliprize.org/prizes-and-laureates/prizes/2016-kavli-prize-neuroscience

http://www.brainfacts.org/About-Neuroscience/Meet-the-Researcher/Articles/2012/Carla-Shatz

http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/podcasts/interviews/carla-shatz.html “There, she became the first female basic scientist to be granted tenure at the medical school.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592607/ “There, she became the first female basic scientist to be granted tenure at the medical school.”

https://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7144-610a

Thank you and I apologize if I haven’t adhered to the right request/format. 171.65.92.41 (talk) 19:01, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Request has been moved from the user's Talk page. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 20:35, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, thank you for alerting Wikipedia to this error. Altamel (talk) 02:41, 5 August 2017 (UTC)