The Mary Walker effect: Mary Broadfoot Walker

Mary Broadfoot Walker: 83 years since a historical discovery.

Mary Broadfoot Walker was a Scottish physician who, in 1935, described in great detail the effect of an anticholinesterase drug (physostigmine) on the signs and symptoms of myasthenia gravis. An original five-minutes movie is available online and the skepticism of her contemporary British medical doctors is understandable when the drastic effect of the treatment is shown in this movie. What Mar...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: years ahead of her time.

Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919): surgeon, feminist and war heroine.

Historical snapshot: Dr. Mary E. Walker, Civil War surgeon, Medal of Honor recipient.

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Mary Ainsworth

Saul McLeod John Bowlby (1969) believed that attachment was an all or nothing process. However, research has shown that there are individual differences in attachment quality. Indeed, one of the primary paradigms in attachment theory is that of the security of an individual’s attachment (Ainsworth & Bell, 1970). Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of attachment differ among inf...