Sentences with phrase «by leading neuroscientists»

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Leading neuroscientists such as Duke's Miguel Nicolelis reject the transhumanist assertion that the brain could be modeled by computers.

In the new work, a team led by neuroscientist Simon Fisher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, decided to take a slightly different tack.

Experiments led by John Kounios, a neuroscientist at Drexel University in Philadelphia, suggest that the reason we aren't all millionaire authors is that some brains come better set up for creativity than others.

Researchers led by New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux recently claimed to be the first scientists to erase a single memory.

A team led by Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue has implanted sensors in the brains of four quadriplegic patients that connect signals from the motor cortex to output devices, thereby enabling paralyzed patients to move computer cursors, control robotic limbs, and operate wheelchairs.

The research, led by Moriah Thomason, a developmental neuroscientist at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and published this week in Scientific Reports, provides the first direct evidence of altered brain function in fetuses that go on to be born prematurely.

The research — led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., as part of the Walk Again Project in São Paulo, Brazil — offers promise for people with spinal cord injury, stroke and other conditions to regain strength, mobility and independence.

Neuroscientists are shedding new light on these questions by uncovering how brain lesions can lead to criminal behavior.

In the study, led by neuroscientist Jon - Kar Zubieta, researchers injected a salt solution into the jaws of 14 men to produce an ache.

In the first, published in Science in 2002, a team led by neuroscientist Predrag Petrovic at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm strapped painful, hot metal pads to nine subjects.

Instead of focusing on how the pitcher manipulates the ball, a team of researchers led by neuroscientist Arthur Shapiro of American University in Washington, D.C., attacked the question from the other side: how the human eye and brain perceive the ball's movement.

Developed by a team of neuroscientists and video game designers from the University of Lincoln, UK, and the WESC Foundation, one of the UK's leading specialist schools for visually impaired children, the Eyelander game features exploding volcanoes, a travelling avatar and animated landscapes.

Using such tools, a group in Paris led by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France has argued for several years that a hallmark of conscious visual perception is a particular type of electric wave, called P300, that occurs whenever an adult subject is attending to a consciously perceived picture or a sound.

Often people think performing in front of others will make them mess up, but a new study led by a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist found the opposite: being watched makes people do better.

The study team, led by neuroscientist Joseph Buxbaum of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and including coworkers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, genetically engineered mice to carry defective versions of the FOXP2 gene.

A team led by neuroscientist Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, who recently demonstrated the value of stem cells loaded with cancer - killing herpes viruses, now has a way to genetically engineer stem cells so that they can produce and secrete tumor - killing toxins.

To do so, a team led by neuroscientist David Holtzman of Washington University in St. Louis injected genes for human apoE3 or apoE4, which is about a third as common, into fertilized mouse eggs.

Fat molecules typically are not airborne, meaning that they are unlikely to be sensed by sniffing food samples,» said lead author Sanne Boesveldt, PhD, a sensory neuroscientist.

Yong, a neuroscientist, initially had the idea to test the acne medicine in an animal model since minocycline has many anti-inflammatory properties that he thought could be useful in treating MS. Soon after obtaining successful research results, in studies also supported by the MS Society of Canada and MSSRF, Yong teamed up with Metz who led the transition into a pilot clinical trial, then a Phase 2, and finally the definitive Phase 3 trial.

Research by Finch's team in the mid -»90s also led to a startling discovery in Alzheimer's research: In 1998, working with neuroscientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the group reported that amyloid — the insoluble protein that piles up in the Alzheimer's - afflicted brain — is also highly neurotoxic when it clusters into small but soluble oligomers, dubbed ADDLs.

The researchers, led by neuroscientist Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg, studied a total of 142 men and women lacking any known history of mental illness or drug or alcohol abuse.

Brain Fitness was developed by a team of neuroscientists led by Michael Merzenich, a coinventor of both the cochlear implant and a highly regarded software package for treating dyslexia in children (see «The Elastic Brain» by Katherine Ellison in DISCOVER, May 2007).

Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, was tapped by Science Minister Aloizio Mercadante to lead the «Commission of the Future,» a 21 ‑ member panel that will study the direction of Brazilian science.

In 2001 a group led by neuroscientist Marcus Raichle at Washington University discovered that this network was more active when people were simply sitting idly in a brain scanner than when they were asked to perform a particular task.

The researchers, led by University of California, San Diego neuroscientist Mark Tuszynski, took skin cells from the patients, grew them up in a culture dish and genetically engineered them to make human nerve growth factor (NGF).

In 2009 a group led by Tom Davidson and Fabian Kloosterman, neuroscientists at MIT, observed rats as the animals traveled along a winding, 10 - meter track.

Neuroscientists led by Virginie van Wassenhove of the California Institute of Technology found that a visual time - stretching illusion could alter volunteers» perception of audio stimuli, whereas an audio illusion had no such power over visual perception.

«Rather than using an immune method or targeting an enzyme, which have side effects, we want to target this specific pathway so that the brain can naturally clear amyloid - beta peptides when they're not trapped by heparan sulfate,» says Guojun Bu, a neuroscientist at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and the study's lead author.

A team led by Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist at University College London, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine the neural processing of vocal cues associated with four emotions: amusement, triumph, fear and disgust.

But the Salk team, led by neuroscientist Fred H. Gage, is the first to apply the approach to a genetically complex neuropsychiatric disorder.

Researchers led by neuroscientist Rita Valentino of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania mimicked an obstructed bladder in a group of male rats by surgically narrowing the outlets from the organ.

In the same issue, a team led by neuroscientists Joh - E Ikeda at Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan, and Michael Hayden at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver reports similar genetic variances in another Tunisian family with juvenile ALS and a Kuwaiti family with juvenile PLS..

The research team, led by Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue, then asked each man to think about moving his hand to follow a cursor on a screen — and to the team's delight, the patterns of activity in the motor cortex changed according to the direction of motion each man was told to imagine.

A team of neuroscientists led by Dr. Andrea Burgalossi of the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) at the University of Tübingen have now taken an important step towards understanding why some neurons are active and others are not: they can tell them apart morphologically.

The first study, led by neuroscientist David Llewellyn of the University of Cambridge, assessed vitamin D levels in more than 1,700 men and women from England, aged 65 or older.

To narrow down the list, a team of researchers led by Henry Lester, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, designed a mouse with a mutant version of the a4 * acetylcholine receptor subunit.

Neuroscientists led by Qin Shen and Sally Temple, both of Albany Medical College in New York, wanted to see if the same holds true for vertebrate neural progenitor cells.

In 2006 a group led by neuroscientist Adrian Owen of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, England, used neuroimaging to pick up the thoughts of a woman who had been in a vegetative state for five months after a traffic accident.

With that in mind, Scientific American invites you to create a photo (or two) for our Great Consciousness Contest that is based on a challenge set out by two leading neuroscientists, Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi, in the magazine's June issue.

In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced in paraplegics by creating a bodily illusion with the help of virtual reality.

Around 30 years ago, work by psychologists and neuroscientists began to show that our memories are easily suggestible, with the implication that leading questioning could implant false details, or even completely fictitious events, in the minds of eyewitnesses.

Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD, is an assistant neuroscientist in the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory led by Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, and an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

But without regulation, this flurry of innovation spells trouble for humanity, warns a team of researchers led by Columbia University neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and University of Washington bioethicist Sara Goering, and includes University of Michigan biomedical engineering and rehabilitation scientist Jane Huggins, Ph.D..

A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.

The Centre for the Biology of Memory, which is lead by Professors May - Britt and Edvard Moser, brings together internationally leading neuroscientists.

It took eight long years of research, but now an international team led by neuroscientists at Université de Montréal has discovered a basic molecular mechanism that better helps understand how Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), works.

Akili was co-founded by entrepreneurs, leading cognitive neuroscientists, and top - tier entertainment software creators.

For now, the NIH hopes to accomplish its five - year goal of a completed region - to - region map by encouraging collaboration among neuroscientists, many of whom have spent years working on the problem in isolation, leading to some unverified techniques and little cross-checking of data.

October 26, 2015 Sheet music for creating the artificial sense of touch A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.