Research and Writing – Links to selected works by Dr. Marian Diamond

If you want learn about the PBS documentary My Love Affair With the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond, click here.

But if you want to read some of Dr. Diamonds research in her own words, you are in the right place!

ARTICLES

“On the Brain of a Scientist: Albert Einstein”
Marian C. Diamond, Arnold B. Scheibel, Greer m. Murphy, Jr., and Thomas Harvey
Experimental Neurology, Vol. 88, pp. 198-204, 1985

“The Effects of an Enriched Environment on the Histology of the Rat Cerebral Cortex”
by Marian C. Diamond, David Krech and Mark R. Rosenzweig
The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Vol. 123, No. 1, August 1964

“Marian Cleeves Diamond” in  The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Vol. 6
Marian Cleeves Diamond
Society for Neuroscience, The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography Series

“Women in Modern Science”
Marian C. Diamond, PhD
Journal of the American Medical Women’s Asssociation, Vol. 18, No 11, pp. 891-896,  November 1963

“Chemical and Anatomical Plasticity of Brain: Changes in brain through experience, demanded by learning theories, are found in experiments with rats”
Edward L. Bennett, Marian C. Diamond, David Krech, Mark R. Rosenzweig
Science, Vol. 146, No. 3644, pp 610-619, Oct. 30, 1964

“Sex and the Cerebral Cortex”
Marian Cleeves Diamond
Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 25, pp 823-825, 1989

“Response of the Brain to Enrichment”
Marian C. Diamond
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, Vol. 73, no. 2, Rio de Janeiro, June 2001

“Brain Changes in Response to Experience”
Rats kept in a lively environment for 30 days show distinct changes in brain anatomy and chemistry compared with animals ketp in a dull environment.  The implications of these effects for people are assessed.
Mark R. Rosenzweig, Edward L. Bennett and Marian Cleeves Diamond
Scientific American, p22-30, February 1972

“Plasticity in the 904-Day-Old Male Rat Cerebral Cortex”
Marian C. Diamond, Ruth Johnson, Ann Marie Protti, Carol Ott, and Linda Kajisa
Experimental Neurology 87, 309-317 (1985)

“Mental stimulation increases circulating CD4-positive T lymphocytes: a preliminary study”
Marian C. Diamond, Jeanne Weidner, Peter Schow, Stanley Grell, Marian Everett
Cognitive Brain Research, 2001

ARTIFACTS

Rat Cerebral Cortex Measurements,
original data entry worksheet
from Dr. Diamond’s laboratory,
1964 (click for full size)

(Note:  pencil and paper … so’ back in the day’, eh?)

BOOKS

Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nuture you Child’s Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth,  by Marian Diamond and Janet Hopson, 1999

The Human Brain Coloring Book, by Marian C. Diamond and Arnold B. Scheibel, 1985

Enriching Heredity: The Impact of the Environment on the Anatomy of the Brain,  by Marian Cleeves Diamond, 1988

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