Leah Somerville, a Dartmouth graduate alum, was recently featured in Science Magazine.

Somerville’s co-authored paper, entitled “A Genetic Variant BDNF Polymorphism Alters Extinction Learning in Both Mouse and Human,”  was published by Science in January of 2011.

Somerville received her PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2008, and has since joined the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University.

Read the full published paper here.