Annica Dahlström (born 1941) is a Swedish physician and Professor Emerita of

Histology Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissue (biology), tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at large ...

and

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

at the Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology at

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. Dahlström's research focuses on how nerve cells 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 University of Gothenburg from 1983 until her 2008 retirement. Dahlström has taken part in the debate on the relationship between

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and

brain The brain is an organ (biology), organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for ...

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