Sentences with phrase «for brain research»

The technologies for brain research are really moving fast.

Partisans like Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, believe «there hasn't been a better time to go into neuroscience,» owing to the powerful new tools at a researcher's disposal.

But scientists who looked for signs of REM and slow - wave sleep in reptiles have had «confusing» results, says Gilles Laurent, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany.

In a lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, just a few black mice are brought forth for a demonstration.

However, Oleh Hornykiewicz of the Center for Brain Research at MedUni Vienna has managed to explain one cause of Parkinson's disease: The working group led by the multiple award - winning scientist found a lack of dopamine in certain areas of the brain and identified it as the trigger for the disease.

Neuroscientists from around the country are wrapping up a meeting today in drizzly Arlington, Virginia, in which they discussed possible directions for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative — a $ 100 million federal investment in brain research that has yet to be clearly defined.

«A new tool for brain research.»

Many neurological traits and diseases can't be accurately studied in mice — for decades the go - to animals for brain research — because the human versions involve cells and circuitry that are quite different in rodents or don't exist there at all.

These are two of the intriguing questions psychologists will address in the Mini-School of Neuroscience, hosted by the Neuroinsight Foundation for Brain Research Initiatives.

Heady times are on the horizon for brain research with efforts underway across the globe.

The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research.

Hustvedt: The big question for brain research has been, how does all this get put together?

Furthermore, NIRSIT is probably the one and only portable and wireless NIRS device designed to be used for brain research and clinical research purposes.

In the 1980s, journalist Götz Aly correlated brain tissue slides collected by Julius Hallervorden, the World War II — era director of the neuropathology department at KWG's Institute for Brain Research here, with a group of 38 children who were murdered by the euthanasia program one day in October 1940.

In response, MPG's Institute for Brain Research decided that out of respect for the victims, it would destroy all the brain sections it could find — about 100,000 slides — that dated to the Nazi era, from 1933 to 1945.

At the Society for Neuroscience meeting earlier this month in San Diego, California, Science sat down with Geoffrey Ling, deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to discuss the agency's plans for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, a neuroscience research effort put forth by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

Schuman and her husband, both neuroscientists, moved to the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research as «directors,» prestigious positions as the heads of large research groups that come with guaranteed funding until retirement and full academic freedom.

The EU budget has provided more than $ 1.9 billion for brain research since the start of the current EU framework programme for research, FP7 (2007 - 2013).

There will still be opportunities for brain research under all three pillars — «excellent science», «industrial leadership» and «societal challenges» of Horizon 2020, the next EU research and innovation programme.

Three neuroscientists working at UK universities and one working at a German institution will be awarded the world's most valuable prize for brain research.

The NIH BRAIN Initiative has awarded grants to five teams of experts who will study the neuroethical issues surrounding the use of deep brain stimulation in neuropsychiatric and movement disorders and appropriate consent for brain research.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Working with a core group of about a dozen other scientists over the last several months, John Donoghue, the Henry Merrit Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, helped to catalyze a sweeping new vision for brain research.

John is Professor of Marine Science and Principal Investigator in the Centre for Brain Research.

Dr. Klann serves as a Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience, a Section Editor for Brain Research, and serves on the editoral boards of several other journals.

The best resource I've found for brain research in regard to education is by Judy Willis.

Skinner responded to a question from her about the need for brain research by saying, «We don't need to know about the brain because we have operant conditioning» (T. Grandin, personal communication, 1968).

John Assaraf, aka The Street Kid, New York Times & Wall Street Journal Best - Selling Author, Lecturer and consummate Entrepreneur with a Passion for Brain Research and Quantum Physics.

Montreal About Youtuber The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital — The Neuro, is a world - leading destination for brain research and advanced patient care.

Mr. Tronsdal is also an impassioned advocate for people affected by neurological disabilities, and, inspired by his son, has raised thousands of dollars for brain research.

«The work by Brown and colleagues is an important step forward to be able to differentiate the brain and behavioral processes that are affected as a consequence of post-traumatic stress,» said Martin Paulus, a medical doctor and the scientific director and president of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Currently, he jointly holds the positions of head of the Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Center for Brain Research at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, and professor of neurobiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Feng Zhang, PhD, Core Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, MIT; Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation; James and Patricia Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.

Through the ADSP, Gursoy and Kasthuri are developing a series of large - scale data and computational steps — a pipeline — that integrates exascale computational approaches into an entirely new set of tools for brain research.

That bill authorizes $ 1.4 billion over 10 years for a Precision Medicine Initiative, $ 1.8 billion for Vice President Joe Biden's cancer moonshot, and $ 1.6 billion for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative.

Henrik Alle of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and his colleagues decided to explore the efficiency of rat brain cells, which are more similar to those of humans.

McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Harvard - MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

He and Arjen Alink at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, asked 12 volunteers to focus on a cross on a screen, above and below which bars flashed on and off to create the illusion of movement.

You simply build things out of predictable, linkable units,» says Boyden, who is also a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Feng is also a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.

This marks the first time Germany's Max Planck Society has used private money to establish a research institute, says Wolf Singer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and interim head of the new institute.

«The retina is a very complex device, enabling our visual system to adjust to tremendous changes in light intensity,» says Thomas Serre, a neuroscientist at M.I.T.'s McGovern Institute for Brain Research's Center for Biological and Computational Learning.

With TMS, says Ed Boyden, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research in Cambridge, «You can always stimulate deep neurons but you stimulate superficial neurons as well.»

So, too, do researchers working with Moritz Helmstaedter, a connectomics expert and director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany.

«If you can avoid that first bout, maybe it would put the person on a different trajectory,» says Gabrieli, who is a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

«Dopamine release is also responsible for people becoming addicted, in that they are always seeking pleasure, so that they can reach higher and higher dopamine levels,» explains Harald Sitte of MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology, speaking on the occasion of the Dopamine 2016 conference, which is taking place next week on the Vienna University campus and at MedUni Vienna's Center for Brain Research.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

We're taking them on a neuroanatomical detour that seems to go with real gains in reading ability,» says Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the study.

Wolf Singer of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, in Frankfurt, supports a code involving synchronous oscillations, or many neurons firing at both the same rate and the same time.