Donald Calne

Donald Calne
Born	Donald Brian Calne May 4, 1936 (1936-05-04) (age 75) London, England
Residence	Kamloops, British Columbia
Citizenship	Canadian
Fields	Neurology
Institutions	Retired Professor Emeritus
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Notable awards	Killam Research Prize, Starr Award, Officer of the Order of Canada, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Hon degree UBC

Donald Brian Calne, OC, FRSC (born May 4, 1936), is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Born in London, England, he received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Oxford.^[4] He worked in England and at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland until 1980.^[5] From 1981 to 2001, he was the Director of the Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre at the University of British Columbia and a professor of neurology.^[4] He is a member of the National Parkinson Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board.^[4][6][7]

In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[8][9] In 2002, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia.^[5] He was a member of the Steering Committee of the 1st World Parkinson Congress (WPC) in 2006.^[10]

He was the first researcher to use L dopa in the UK and the first to show how to use synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease. He has shown that latent damage occurs in the brain even before the symptoms of Parkinson's disease appears.^[5][11][12]

In 1999, he published the book, Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

He married with Susan M. Wigfield who a nurse and co-ordinator at the UBC hospital’s movement disorders clinic . They worked with people with Parkinson's disease together for 25 years time.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Notable quotes

“	The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.	”
— Donald B. Calne

^{[22][23][24][25]}

See also

• List of neuroscientists
• List of neurologists

References

1. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=4091
2. ^ http://www.librarything.com/author/calnedonald
3. ^ http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54033/la_id/1.htm
4. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=14884563
5. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites12.html
6. ^ http://medicine.ucalgary.ca/events/langston
7. ^ http://www.parkinson.org/Page.aspx?pid=395
8. ^ http://www.parkinsons.ubc.ca/Dr.D.B.Calne.htm
9. ^ http://www.pacificparkinsons.org/resources.html
10. ^ http://www.worldpdcongress.org/Program/2006_speakers.cfm
11. ^ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1587164.Progress_in_the_Treatment_of_Parkinsonism
12. ^ http://www.bcic.ca/recognition/awards/past-recipients/previous-recipients/427-health-sciences
13. ^ Calne, Donald B. (1999). Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior. New York, Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0375403514.
14. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375703225
15. ^ http://www.enotalone.com/authors.php?aid=920
16. ^ http://www.human-nature.com/odmh/cognitiveb.html
17. ^ http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=290
18. ^ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0011829
19. ^ http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=79395148
20. ^ http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v41/n2/pubmed/ng.293.html
21. ^ http://www.abaa.org/books/273995252.html
22. ^ http://www.finestquotes.com/author_quotes-author-Donald%20Calne-page-0.htm
23. ^ http://www.philosophersnotes.com/quotes/by_teacher/Donald+Calne
24. ^ http://www.the-emotions.com/emotions-quotes.html
25. ^ http://www.saatchikevin.com/Loyalty_Beyond_Reason

• http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=327
• http://www.sfn.org/SiteObjects/published/0000BDF20016F63800FD712C30FA42DD/0000BDF200000625010A851A9457B786/file/NS_case%20for%20support_08f.pdf
• Elizabeth Lumley (2004). Canadian Who's Who. University of Toronto Press. p. 199. ISBN 0802088929. 

External links

• Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia
• National Parkinson Foundation

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Name	Calne, Donald
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Date of birth	May 4, 1936
Place of birth	London, England
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