18 Facts About Adele Diamond

Adele Dorothy Diamond is a professor of neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, where she is currently a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Adele Diamond's discoveries have improved treatment for disorders such as phenylketonuria and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and they have impacted early education.

Adele Diamond grew up in Brooklyn and Queens and attended public schools.

Adele Diamond graduated from John Bowne High School as Valedictorian.

Adele Diamond attended Swarthmore College on a four-year Swarthmore National Scholarship and graduated in 1975, majoring in Sociology-Anthropology and Psychology.

Adele Diamond graduated Phi Beta Kappa with the highest honor in the course program of study.

Adele Diamond did her PhD graduate work at Harvard University, with a four-year NSF Graduate Fellowship and a three-year Danforth Graduate Fellowship.

Adele Diamond hypothesized that maturational changes in the brain's prefrontal cortex made possible the impressive cognitive advances seen between 6 and 12 months of age.

Adele Diamond learned from books on her own and was granted permission to add Nelson Butters from the Boston VA to her thesis committee.

Adele Diamond's team discovered a long-lasting visual deficit if children with phenylketonuria are not started on a low-phenylalanine diet within days of birth.

Adele Diamond illustrated this approach first with infants' understanding of the concept of contiguity, then with their ability to grasp abstract concepts, and next with children's ability to succeed on a Stroop-like task requiring memory and inhibition.

In 2009, Adele Diamond was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and she received a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award.

In 2014, Adele Diamond received the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association, and she was recognized as one of the 15 most influential neuroscientists alive today.

Adele Diamond has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for more than ten years.

Adele Diamond's courses have received numerous positive reviews throughout her career.

Adele Diamond has almost 600 invited addresses, including hundreds of keynote addresses and over 30 named lectures.

Adele Diamond has spoken in North America and abroad.

Adele Diamond has authored or co-authored about a hundred papers on her research work.