Alexandra Golby Explained

Alexandra Golby is a professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and the Haley Distinguished Chair in the Neurosciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in physics and philosophy. She attended medical school at Stanford Medical School, where she also did her neurosurgery residency.^[1] She was awarded the Congress of Neurological Surgeons' Dandy Fellowship to study with Professor Alim Louis Benabid in Grenoble, France.

Golby's research and clinical practice focus on image-guided neurosurgery, particularly in regards to patients with brain tumors and epilepsy. In addition to authoring over 150 publications, she edited Image Guided Neurosurgery, a comprehensive review of the field.

Notable publications

• Differential responses in the fusiform region to same-race and other-race faces (2001) Golby . AJ . Gabrieli . JD . Chiao . JY . Eberhardt . JL . 2001. Differential responses in the fusiform region to same-race and other-race faces. Nature Neuroscience. 4. 8. 845–50. 11477432 . 10.1038/90565 . 16699355 .
• Material-specific lateralization in the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding (2001) Golby . AJ . Poldrack . RA . Brewer . JB . Desmond . JE . Spencer . D . Aron . AP . 2001. Material-specific lateralization in the medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex during memory encoding. Brain. 124. 9. 1841–1857. 14 June 2018. 10.1093/brain/124.9.1841 . 11522586 . free .
• Memory lateralization in medial temporal lobe epilepsy assessed by functional MRI (2002) Golby . AJ . Poldrack . RA . Illes . J . Chen . D . Desmond . JE . Gabrieli . JD . 2002. Memory lateralization in medial temporal lobe epilepsy assessed by functional MRI. Epilepsia. 43. 8. 855–863. 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.20501.x . 12181004 . free .
• Memory encoding in Alzheimer's disease: an fMRI study of explicit and implicit memory (2005) Golby . AJ . Silverberg . G . Race . E . Gabrieli . S . Oshea . J . Knierim . K . 2005. Memory lateralization in medial temporal lobe epilepsy assessed by functional MRI. Brain. 128. 4. 773–787. 10.1093/brain/awh400 . 15705615 . free .
• Functional brain mapping and its applications to neurosurgery (2007) Golby . AJ . Tharin . S . 2007. Functional brain mapping and its applications to neurosurgery. Operative Neurosurgery. 60. suppl_4, 1 April 2007. 185–202. 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255386.95464.52 . 17415154 . 1727400 . 14 June 2018.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alex's Biographical Sketch. 14 June 2018.