Daniel H. Geschwind

Daniel H. Geschwind
Alma mater	Dartmouth College, Yale School of Medicine
Awards	Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association (2004), member of the Institute of Medicine
Scientific career
Fields	Human genetics, neurogenetics
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor	Susan Hockfield

Daniel H. Geschwind is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also directs the Neurogenetics Program and the Center for Autism Research and Treatment at UCLA, and holds the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair of Human Genetics there. As of March 1, 2016, he is the Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Medicine at UCLA. He is a cousin of Norman Geschwind.

Geschwind received his A.B. degrees in psychology and chemistry at Dartmouth College, and his MD/PhD at Yale School of Medicine under the supervision of Susan Hockfield. He then completed an internship at UCLA. Geschwind has been a member of the UCLA faculty since 1997.

Geschwind's laboratory conducts research into three areas: autism and language, human cognitive specializations, and neurodegenerative syndromes. He has published research examining the numerous genes involved in language, such as FOXP2, and how they differ between humans and chimpanzees. In 2011, Geschwind was senior author on a study which found that there are chemical differences between the brains of people with autism and the brains of people without it. Specifically, Geschwind et al. found that there were common patterns in the gene expression in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brains of the autistic people they studied. He is also known for his research into the factors affecting handedness in humans, and the differences in brain structure between left-handed and right-handed people.

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