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Professor Anna Grabowska is a psychologist, specializing in experimental neuropsychology and psychophysiology. She researches brain mechanisms underlying human psychological functions in normal and pathological cases, and results of brain injury. Her research interests focus on functional asymmetry of the brain hemispheres, left handedness, gender differences, neuroplasticity, neurobiological basis of dyslexia, and neurodegenerative disorders.

She has written numerous publications on researching brain mechanisms using neuroimaging, including a handbook Mózg a zachowanie (The Brain and Behavior) (with T. Górska and J. Zagrodzka 2005).

She is the Head of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). She also is Vice-President of the Polish Neuropsychological Society, a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU), member of the Committee on Neurobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Psychological Association, the European Brain and Behaviour Society, and the International Neuropsychology Society.

At SWPS University she teaches classes in biological foundations of behavior.