Marian Diamond, Ph.D.

Professor of Anatomy at Berkeley for over thirty years and was director of the University's Lawrence Hall of Science from 1990 to 1996. A pioneer brain researcher who has conducted numerous lines of research into the effect of the environment and hormones on the forebrain. She has also investigated structural changes in the cerebral cortex induced by an enriched environment and structural lateralization of the cortex as influenced by sex steroid hormones.

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Enriched environments and brain enhancement - dendrite growth

Books:

• Diamond, Marion . (1988). Enriching Heredity: The Impact of the Environment on the Brain. New York, NY: Free Press.
• Diamond, Marion, Scheibel, Arnold and Elson, Lawrence. (1985). The Human Brain Coloring Book. New York, NY: HarperPerennial.
• Diamond, Marion & Hopson, Janet. (1998). Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence. New York, NY: Dutton.