#23: Anne Young – Basal Ganglia Circuitry, Glutamate & Leadership

<p>In this episode, I had the tremendous honor of speaking with Anne Young about the many highlights of her career, including key evidence that established Glutamate as a neurotransmitter, as well as her work on Huntington's Disease. Directly building upon the preceding episode with Mahlon DeLong, we now hear about the Ann Arbor Side of the so-called “Albin-Delong” model, which was equally informed by the team of Anne Young &amp; her late husband John Penney alongside Roger Albin.</p> <p>In 1991, Dr. Young was appointed chief of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and &nbsp;with that the first female service chief in the hospital's 180-year history and the first female chief of neurology at a teaching hospital in the United States. During her career, she was president of both the American Neurological Association and the Society for Neuroscience – which so far nobody else has achieved. We take these unique achievements as examples to talk about success, leadership and career advice, while also covering a bit of the struggles and challenges associated with a clinician-scientist career.</p>