Sentences with phrase «leading neuroscientists in»

He also has one of the world's most examined brains, having been the subject of leading neuroscientists in the U.S. and the U.K.. Here, he explains what science has learned about him and about the brain in general, and he explains the techniques he uses to master language, math, and memorization.

After consuming the entirety of the work of Professor Norman (Freeman, The LEGO Movie), the leading neuroscientist in the field of untapping brain's amazing latent powers, she pays him a visit to harness these new energies.

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«The NFL alumni showed some of the most pronounced abnormalities in brain activity that I have ever seen,» said lead author Adam Hampshire, a neuroscientist at Imperial College London.

Neuroscientists are leading the way in finding answers to those questions, and others are using knowledge gained from science to satisfy the human palate and sense of smell.

«We found a genetic change in people who have both seasonal affective disorder and the morning lark trait» says lead researcher Ying - Hui Fu, a neuroscientist at UC San Francisco.

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 tacIn 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 tacin Nijmegen, the Netherlands, decided to take a slightly different tack.

In other words, «this might provide a new biological basis for what people call «grit,»» says Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at Zhejiang University who led the research.

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.

«Depression is a very frequent condition associated with Parkinson's, so we became interested in whether an antidepressant could modify how the disease progresses,» said Tim Collier, lead author of the federally funded study and a neuroscientist at MSU.

According to lead author Dr Dr Anna - Sophia Wahl, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, neurorehabilitation is the only treatment option for the majority of stroke victims.

Using «freshman physics,» neuroscientists have deployed electric fields to stimulate neurons buried deep in the brains of mice — a method that could one day lead to noninvasive therapies for people with Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

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.

Wednesday night's panel discussion, «Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain,» leading psychologists and neuroscientists will debate the hottest issues in brain research, from predicting behavior to manipulating memory to understanding consciousness.

«People have tried really hard to figure out why it's working so fast, because understanding this could perhaps lead us to the core mechanism of depression,» says Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China, and a senior author on the new study.

Bird songs aren't so different from human speech, says Dmitriy Aronov, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, who led the study.

But now, in a new review published today in Science, neuroscientist John McGann of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, argues that the myth of the nonessential nose is a huge mistake — one that has led scientists to neglect research in a critical and mysterious part of our minds.

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

neuroscientist Adrian Owen of Western University in Ontario describes how his 1997 encounter with a patient named Kate led him to explore new ways to detect consciousness in patients who appear to be in a vegetative state.

7 In 2007 neuroscientists examined the brain activity of undecided voters as they viewed the leading presidential candidates in the racIn 2007 neuroscientists examined the brain activity of undecided voters as they viewed the leading presidential candidates in the racin the race.

If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the technology could augment traditional forms of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

John Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University who led the cursor - controlling experiment, and colleagues tested the idea on two patients with «locked - in» syndrome.

«There were absolutely no transfer effects» from the training tasks to more general tests of cognition, says Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, who led the study.

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.

«Dogs and humans share a similar social environment,» says Attila Andics, a neuroscientist in a research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the lead author of the new study.

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 whole field has become interested in ketamine,» says Todd Gould, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore who led the study.

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.

In recent years European countries have passed increasingly strict regulations for experiments with nonhuman primates, leading many neuroscientists to fear for the future of their research.

says Elizabeth Brannon, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and the lead author on the original rhesus monkey study.

«We think of words as being unique to humans but, in fact, dogs can process the meaning and tone of words — and they do it in a very similar way to humans,» says lead researcher Atilla Andics, a neuroscientist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

Samer Hattar, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and lead author on the Neuron paper, says he isn't convinced that the study proves that mRGCs are a key component of conscious vision in mice with functional rods and cones.

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.

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 ADDLin 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 ADDLin 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 ADDLIn 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 ADDLin 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 ADDLin the Alzheimer's - afflicted brain — is also highly neurotoxic when it clusters into small but soluble oligomers, dubbed ADDLs.

«It's extremely exciting,» says Stephen Dewey, a neuroscientist at New York University's School of Medicine in New York City who led trials on vigabatrin and is now collaborating with Silverman.

Few reliable tools exist for detecting neural signals of awareness in people who appear unresponsive, says Lorina Naci, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and lead author of the new study.

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).

In The Mind within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How Those Decisions Go Wrong (Oxford University Press, 2013), neuroscientist A. David Redish looks at the complex processes in the brain that prompt us to make certain selections, as well as the defects in this neural system that can lead us astraIn The Mind within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How Those Decisions Go Wrong (Oxford University Press, 2013), neuroscientist A. David Redish looks at the complex processes in the brain that prompt us to make certain selections, as well as the defects in this neural system that can lead us astrain the brain that prompt us to make certain selections, as well as the defects in this neural system that can lead us astrain this neural system that can lead us astray.

This excerpt from a leading neuroscientist's book on the brain's intricate connections levels a critique at the prospects for the Human Brain Project, profiled in the June issue

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 tasIn 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 tasin 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.

In 1949 Canadian neuroscientist Donald Hebb proposed that learning leads groups of neurons to form tight connections with each other.

«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.