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Huda Akil
Huda Akil is a neuroscientist whose pioneering research has contributed to the understanding of the neurobiology of emotions, including pain, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. Akil and colleagues are best known for providing the first physiological evidence for a role of endorphins in the brain and demonstrating that endorphins are activated by stress and can cause pain inhibition.
Akil is a Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School. In addition, she serves as co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience institute and the University of Michigan node of the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium with her husband, Stanley Watson.〔 Akil is also one of seven leading scientists that comprise the Hope For Depression Research Task Force, who together have developed an exceptional research plan that combines the most advanced knowledge in genetics, epigenetics, molecular biology, electrophysiology, and brain imaging in an effort to accelerate cutting-edge scientific research pertaining to depression and its related mood and emotional disorders. 〔 Throughout her career, she has been honored with numerous awards and membership to various societies, most notably she served as a past President of the Society for Neuroscience, the largest neuroscience organization in the world. 〔〔
== Early life and education ==
Akil was born in Damascus, Syria, where she was raised by a family that firmly believed in education, even for women, in a place that did not value the education of women at the time. She attended a French Catholic School from pre-school through high school where she was taught by nuns from around the world. She was inspired to pursue a life of science after reading a book on Marie Curie, the great physicist and Noble Prize winner, that was given to her by one of the French nuns at the library. She refers to this instance as a "turning point" in her life where she realized that a woman who grew up far away from the centers of knowledge, Great Britain, France, and the United States, could become a great scientist, like Curie. She pursued her undergraduate degree at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She entered university as a sophomore, on a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation that required her to earn straight A's, which was especially difficult, since she was not fluent in english, however she fulfilled this requirement and graduated in 1967 Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Akil initially took interest in the the psychology of language, an interest that was sparked by her father, who was a psychologist. 〔
Following graduation, Akil continued at the American University of Beruit with a teaching apprenticeship for a year before traveling to the United States to pursue further education at the University of Iowa. At the University of Iowa she took a course on the basics of neuroscience and pharmacology and was quite intrigued, which led her to complete a rotation in the electrophysiology lab where she did research on learning with Steve Fox.〔 Akil was soon accepted to the University of California Los Angeles to pursue her doctoral degree. At UCLA she worked with John Liebeskind on pain research and after completing her Ph.D. she joined the laboratory of Dr. Jack Barchas at Stanford University.
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