Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge Joel Levine and Ying Peng for important discussions, behavioral analysis and reagents, James Hodge for help with initial imaging studies and James Choi for help with figures. UAS-dORK transgenic lines were a generous gift of Michael Nitabach and Todd Holmes. DP was supported by NIH postdoctoral training grant P32 NS07292 and R01 MH067284 (to L.C.G.)....

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Acknowledgements: Research for this paper was conducted at the University of Washington with the help of two dissertation fellowships from the American Association of University Women and the Association of Women in Science. Partial preparation of this manuscript was supported while on a postdoctoral training grant from the National Institutes of Health to Indiana University (NIHNIDCD T32 Train...

This chapter chronicles the early careers of NRSA predoctoral recipients in the biomedical sciences, contrasting them with those of their Ph.D. counterparts who did not receive such support. The outcomes examined range from the time required to earn the doctorate to the number of publications authored and citations received by 1995. Of interest are those Ph.D.s who earned their degrees between ...