Lise Eliot, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience, Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University

Research Expertise

Brain development
gender development
neuroplasticity
critical periods

Publications

Pink brain, blue brain: how small differences grow into troublesome gaps--and what we can do about it
Choice Reviews Online
2010
The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling
Science
2011
Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
2021
Different Ca2+ channels in soma and dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons mediate spike-induced Ca2+ influx
Journal of Neurophysiology
1995
Single-Sex Education and the Brain
Sex Roles
2011
The human hippocampus is not sexually-dimorphic: Meta-analysis of structural MRI volumes
NeuroImage
2016
The Trouble with Sex Differences
Neuron
2011
Modulation of spontaneous transmitter release during depression and posttetanic potentiation of Aplysia sensory-motor neuron synapses isolated in culture
The Journal of Neuroscience
1994
Ca2+/calmodulin sensitivity may be common to all forms of neural adenylate cyclase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1989
Pairing-specific, activity-dependent presynaptic facilitation at Aplysia sensory-motor neuron synapses in isolated cell culture
The Journal of Neuroscience
1994
Meta-analysis reveals a lack of sexual dimorphism in human amygdala volume
NeuroImage
2017
Imaging terminals of Aplysia sensory neurons demonstrates role of enhanced Ca2+ influx in presynaptic facilitation
Nature
1993
Multiple components of calcium current in acutely dissociated dentate gyrus granule neurons
Journal of Neurophysiology
1994
Sex in Context: Limitations of Animal Studies for Addressing Human Sex/Gender Neurobehavioral Health Disparities
The Journal of Neuroscience
2016
Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains
Nature
2019
How the Mind Works
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1999
Consensus Parameter: Research Methodologies to Evaluate Neurodevelopmental Effects of Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth
Transgender Health
2020
The Truth about Boys and Girls
Scientific American Mind
2010
Brain Development and Physical Aggression
Current Anthropology
2021
How hype and hyperbole distort the neuroscience of sex differences
PLOS Biology
2021
Why and How to Account for Sex and Gender in Brain and Behavioral Research
The Journal of Neuroscience
2023
Biochemical studies of stimulus convergence during classical conditioning in Aplysia: dual regulation of adenylate cyclase by Ca2+/calmodulin and transmitter
The Journal of Neuroscience
1991
His Brain, Her Brain
Scientific American Mind
2009
Breaking the binary: Gender versus sex analysis in human brain imaging
NeuroImage
2022
Impact of gender-typed toys on children’s neurological development.
Gender typing of children's toys: How early play experiences impact development.
2018
Sex/Gender Differences in the Brain and their Relationship to Behavior
The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women
2020
Direct enhancement of presynaptic calcium influx in presynaptic facilitation at Aplysia sensorimotor synapses
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
2009
Remembering the null hypothesis when searching for brain sex differences
Biology of Sex Differences
2024
Unsexing the Brain Pink Brain, Blue Brain How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps—and What We Can Do About It by Lise Eliot Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2009. 432 pp. $25. ISBN 9780618393114.
Science
2010
The Truth about Boys and Girls
Scientific American
2012
Response—Single-Sex Education: Parameters Too Narrow
Science
2012
Book Review: The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain by Gina Rippon
Physiology News
2022
Big Idea: Pink boys, blue girls
New Scientist
2010

Education

Harvard University

A.B., History & Science (Cell biology, European intellectual history) / June, 1984

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Columbia University

Ph.D., Physiology & Biophysics (Neuroscience) / July, 1991

New York, New York, United States of America

Baylor College of Medicine

Post-doctoral fellowship, Neuroscience / December, 1994

Houston, Texas, United States of America

Experience

Rosalind Franklin University - Chicago Medical School

Tenured Professor of Neuroscience / May, 1998Present

started as an assistant professor

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