Cathy Price

**Catherine J. Price** Masanin kimiyyar kwakwalwa ce ta Burtaniya kuma masanin kimiyya. Ita Farfesa ce a fannin kimiyyar kwakwalwa kuma darakta a Cibiyar Amincewa ta Wellcome don Neuroimaging a Kwalejin Jami'ar London . 

Babban burinta na bincike shine samar da samfurin tushen jijiyoyin harshe  wanda ke hasashen da kuma bayyana matsalolin magana da harshe da kuma murmurewar su bayan lalacewar kwakwalwa (stroke ko neurosurgery). 

## Ilimi
Farashin ta sami digiri na farko a shekarar 1984, kuma ta PhD a shekarar 1990, duka daga Kwalejin Birkbeck.

Farfesa Kia Nobre, wanda ya zabi Farashi don lambar yabo ta 5th Suffrage don Kimiyya ta Rayuwa, ya ce: "Ta yi fure ta hanyar rami na duniya mai ban sha'awa tare da kalmomi masu tausayi, ayyukan karimci, sadaukarwar kimiyya da tsauraran ra'ayi, fassarar gaskiya na bincike zuwa amfanin asibiti, da jin dadi. "

Farashin da farko an horar da shi a matsayin masanin ilimin kwakwalwa wanda ke nazarin karatu da ganewar abu a cikin marasa lafiya da ke fama da lalacewar kwakwalwa. A shekara ta 1991, ta shiga kwamitin binciken likitanci  (MRC)  na cyclotron a farkon taswirar kwakwalwar mutum kuma ta yi amfani da binciken PET don samar da sabon fahimta game da aikin jikin karatu, fahimtar magana, samar da magana da ma'ana.

## Bincike da aiki
A cikin 1995, Price ya koma Kwalejin Jami'ar London ta amfani da MRI scanning don nuna yadda ƙwarewar harshe da IQ ke nunawa a cikin tsarin kwakwalwa. Misali, ta hanyar hada bayanai na tsari da na aiki daga mahalarta masu lafiya, Farashin ya nuna tasirin da ilmantarwa ke da shi akan tsarin kwakwalwa. An kwatanta wannan a cikin jerin takardun yanayi 3 waɗanda ke taswirar canje-canjen kwakwalwa da ke da alaƙa da (i) koyon yare na biyu,  (ii) koyon karatu a cikin balaga  da (iii) canje-canje na halitta a cikin IQ na magana da ba na magana ba a cikin kwakwalwar matasa. 

Farashin ya yi ikirarin ra'ayi guda biyu. Sabanin ra'ayoyin gargajiya, ka'idar ta "cognitive ontologies"  ta yi iƙirarin cewa babu wani sassan kwakwalwar ɗan adam da aka keɓe don sarrafa harshe. Maimakon haka, ƙwarewa ga kowane nau'in sarrafa harshe yana fitowa ta hanyar magana tsakanin haɗuwa ta musamman na yankuna waɗanda kowannensu ke da hannu a wasu ayyukan da ba na harshe ba. Sake bayyana abubuwan aiki na harshe, dangane da tsarin jijiyoyin da ke tattare da su, Farashin ya ba mu damar samar da samfuran fahimta waɗanda suke da amfani da ilimin lissafi da kuma amfani da asibiti. Ka'idar ta ta "rashin hankali"  ta yi iƙirarin cewa ana iya tallafawa aikin harshe iri ɗaya ta hanyoyi daban-daban na jijiyoyi, kuma fahimtar lokacin da kuma dalilin da ya sa ake amfani da hanyoyi daban-ара na jijiyoyi yana da mahimmanci don fahimtar yadda marasa lafiya ke dawo da harshe bayan lalacewar kwakwalwa. 

Tun daga shekara ta 2012, Price ta mayar da hankalinta ga haɓaka kayan aiki don hango hasashen sakamakon harshe da murmurewa bayan bugun jini (bincike na PLORAS). [1] Don wannan dalili, tana ƙirƙirar bayanan da ke ba da sauƙin samun dama ga tushen bayanai da yawa (halayyar, yawan jama'a, tsarin kwakwalwa da aiki) daga dubban waɗanda suka tsira daga bugun jini. Tsinkaya ga sababbin marasa lafiya sun dogara ne akan yadda aka lura da wasu da ke da irin wannan lalacewar kwakwalwa da yawan jama'a don murmurewa daga alamun iri ɗaya. Ana iya amfani da wannan bayanan, da ka'idar lalacewar fahimta, don bayyana farfadowa dangane da matakin da marasa lafiya suka adana hanyoyin jijiyoyin da ake buƙata don samar da magana da harshe (Seghier da Price, 2018). [2]

A watan Maris na 2020, h-index dinta ya kai 86 daga jimlar takardu 322, tare da fiye da 24,000 citations.

## Kyaututtuka da girmamawa

* Ɗaliban Minnie Mitchel Goodall (1989) 
* Babban Binciken Bincike na Wellcome Trust (1997) 
* Kungiyar don Kwararrun Mutum Taswirar Farko na Bincike (2001). 
* Kyautar Zaɓin Edita na Zuciya (2006) 
* Kyautar Justine da Yves Sergent (2008) 
* Kyautar Gidauniyar Ipsen Neuropsychology (2012) 
* Wellcome Trust Babban Binciken Bincike (2012) 
* Fellow na Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Kiwon Lafiya (FMedSci) (2014) 
* Wellcome Trust Babban Binciken Bincike (2017 
* Kyautar Zaɓe ta 5 don Kimiyya ta Rayuwa (2018) 
* Fellow na Royal Society (FRS) (2020) 
* Fellow na Kwalejin Burtaniya (FBA) (2022) 

## Manazarta