Book contents
- From Loss to Memory
- From Loss to Memory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Counting Synapses
- 2 Discovering Synaptic Pruning
- 3 Else, Peter’s Mother
- 4 Richard, Peter’s Father, and Peter’s Uncle Fritz
- 5 Greiz: Kriegskinder (Children of War)
- 6 In Braubach, after the War
- 7 Arrival in America
- 8 Harvard Medical School
- 9 Understanding Sleep and Consciousness: Research at the National Institutes of Health
- 10 Entering the Cognitive Revolution: Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
- 11 Physician First, Scientist Second?
- 12 Comparative Brain Regions and Synapse Formation
- 13 Stimulating Progress on Developmental Brain Disorders
- 14 Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Role for Synaptic Pruning?
- 15 Early Childhood Education
- 16 Peter and Janellen’s Collaboration
- 17 Microglial Cells and the Mechanisms of Synaptic Pruning
- 18 Looking Forward: Being a Physician and a Scientist
- 19 Parkinson’s Disease and Berlin
- 20 Auf Deutsch: Back to German
- 21 Memories and Reflections at the End: A Return Trip to Greiz
- Glossary
- Index
- References
8 - Harvard Medical School
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2023
- From Loss to Memory
- From Loss to Memory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Counting Synapses
- 2 Discovering Synaptic Pruning
- 3 Else, Peter’s Mother
- 4 Richard, Peter’s Father, and Peter’s Uncle Fritz
- 5 Greiz: Kriegskinder (Children of War)
- 6 In Braubach, after the War
- 7 Arrival in America
- 8 Harvard Medical School
- 9 Understanding Sleep and Consciousness: Research at the National Institutes of Health
- 10 Entering the Cognitive Revolution: Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
- 11 Physician First, Scientist Second?
- 12 Comparative Brain Regions and Synapse Formation
- 13 Stimulating Progress on Developmental Brain Disorders
- 14 Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Role for Synaptic Pruning?
- 15 Early Childhood Education
- 16 Peter and Janellen’s Collaboration
- 17 Microglial Cells and the Mechanisms of Synaptic Pruning
- 18 Looking Forward: Being a Physician and a Scientist
- 19 Parkinson’s Disease and Berlin
- 20 Auf Deutsch: Back to German
- 21 Memories and Reflections at the End: A Return Trip to Greiz
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
After completing his undergraduate training at the University of Buffalo in three years, Peter started at Harvard Medical School in 1953, four and a half years after arriving in the United States through Ellis Island. For the first time, Peter was really on his own. As a first-year student Peter moved into Vanderbilt Hall, a dormitory for male Harvard medical students. In the 1950s, the Harvard medical class was largely composed of elite highly educated men, many of whom had attended Harvard College or other Ivy League institutions. By living in Vanderbilt, Peter became fully immersed in an entirely new culture of the American elite.
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- From Loss to MemoryBehind the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning, pp. 52 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023