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Obituary Ann E Kelley, 19542007
Neuropsychopharmacology (2008) 33, 3246; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1301632
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Ann E Kelley, one of the most gifted behavioral neuro-scientists of our era, died on August 5 at her home in Madison, WI.
Dr Kelley led an eminent career in which she made groundbreaking contributions to neuropsychopharmacology. Her lifelong passion for neuroscience began at the University of Pennsylvania, where she helped to found the extremely successful Biological Basis of Behavior major and became its first graduate. Professor Kelley subsequently won a Thouron fellowship for doctoral study in England, where she joined Dr Susan Iversens lab at the University of Cambridge. Dr Kelleys dissertation project impacted the field profoundly as it provided the first convincing behavioral evidence of neuropeptide control over dopamine cell bodies. Her subsequent work as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School under the renowned neuroanato-mist Walle Nauta identified amygdaloid and hippocampal projections to various sectors of the nucleus accumbens. Her papers on this topic are citation classics and regarded as...