NeURoscience Perspectives: Katalin Gothard, MD, PhD

During her medical training, she worked in Romania orphanages. Today most of her research focuses on touch. Katalin Gothard, MD, PhD, a professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, studies the neural basis of emotion and social behavior. She tells John J. Foxe, PhD, the director of the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester, what she experienced with those children early in her career is never far from her mind.