Annica Dahlström (born 1941) is a Swedish physician and

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Histology Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology which studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at larger structures vis ...

and

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

at the Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology at

Gothenburg University The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 s ...

. Dahlström's research focuses on how

nerve cell A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an electrically excitable cell that communicates with other cells via specialized connections called synapses. The neuron is the main component of nervous tissue in all animals except sponges and placozoa. No ...

s store and transport signals, but she has also published research on many other areas of histology and neuroscience. She earned her doctorate at 25 as the youngest Swedish physician to earn a doctorate.Linnér, Carin
"Könet sitter i din hjärna"
. Expressen, 2009-04-23. She was Professor of Histology and Neuroscience at Gothenburg University from 1983 until her 2008 retirement. Dahlström has taken part in the debate on the relationship between

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and

brain A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. It is the most complex organ in a v ...

function. In 2007, she published the book ''Könet sitter i hjärnan'' (The gender is in the brain), which she described as a concentrate of the last 15 years of international research on the brain and how the brain affects human behavior. This book, mostly referencing studies performed before 1990, has been publicly criticized for inaccuracies. Her most cited scientific paper, "Evidence for the existence of monoamine-containing neurons in the central nervous system," was cited over 5,500 times as of 2013. Dahlström has published over 340 scientific papers.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahlstrom, Annica 1941 births Living people Swedish neuroscientists Swedish women neuroscientists Swedish women academics Swedish women scientists University of Gothenburg Swedish biologists Histologists 21st-century Swedish women writers