Dr Jane Mellanby

Jane Mellanby?s current research centres on learning problems in children, particularly under-achievement in secondary school. She has always been interested in the brain. Based at the Department of Experimental Psychology in the University of Oxford and collaborating with researchers locally, abroad and across disciplines, she trained initially as a biochemist, doing her D Phil under Sir Hans Krebs. Combining then the fields of neurochemistry and neurophysiology, she worked on neurotoxins, subsequently developing a model of epilepsy in the rat, using tetanus toxin, to investigate the relationship between physiological changes and deficits in learning and memory. The combination of this neuroscientific perspective and bringing up four children meant that human learning and academic achievement was a natural progression.

Events:

• Why can't a man be more like a woman?