Sentences with word «neuroscientist»

At this point, a genetic test for these variants won't be much help in the clinic, says Faraneh Vargha - Khadem, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who was not involved with the work.

It made headlines, but a claim to have cultured a nearly fully formed brain is «entirely unjustified», say neuroscientists contacted by New Scientist

Another team of neuroscientists at Princeton, for instance, has pinpointed neural circuits that govern the sense of fairness.

At the suggestion of a friend who teaches children with learning disabilities, Moorcraft contacted Brian Butterworth, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London who studies numerical cognition.

Cook sought advice from neuroscientists who study the hippocampus in mice and people to come up with a memory test for the sea lions.

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.

Designed by a team of neuroscientists with foundations in the study of neuroplasticity (read: smart people trying to make our brains work better), Lumosity is just as fun to play as it is functional.

The 18th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience will highlight this mystery as neuroscientists from around the world gather to discuss their work on how the brain develops in the womb and throughout childhood.

But getting funding for computational neuroscientists in Canada is harder than it is in other countries, Eliasmith says: «There are a number of funding agencies in the European Union and the United States that have targeted theoretical neuroscience specifically, but there is no such thing in Canada yet.

Staci Bilbo, a Duke University neuroscientist who studies connections between the brain and the immune system, wasn't involved in the study but quickly heard about it when several colleagues emailed her.

As neuroscientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have now discovered, the human brain processes weak visual stimuli better in the morning and evening than at noon.

Some of the findings of the cognitive neuroscientists studying the brain scans of individuals from different political parties seem to suggest some interestingly patterns.

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.

The same can be said for neuroscientists trying to work out the emergent properties — higher thought, for example — hidden in complex brain circuits.

Alonso, who first began studying the nonlinear oscillations of neurons while training at the Dynamical Systems Laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires, believes that his model can aid other computational neuroscientists working on their own models.

David Sweatt, chairman of neurobiology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that the new paper provides evidence for a phenomenon many neuroscientists believed to be impossible: lost memories could be accessed once again.

Then we'll have a unique union of neuroscientists working with lawyers and jurists to sharpen a question by carrying out actual particular experiments.

Suzanne Corkin, an MIT neuroscientist who worked with H. M. for decades, realized that because his mind had been so thoroughly studied, his brain had unique value.

«It was apparent that connections from the periphery to the cortex are not intact before 24 weeks of gestation and, as most neuroscientists believe that the cortex is necessary for pain perception, it can be concluded that the foetus can not experience pain in any sense prior to this gestation,» it reads.

As a result, when prairie voles are separated from their partners even for a short time, they experience withdrawal - like symptoms, says Larry Young, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and co-author of the study.

«I'm pretty amazed about the scale of exposures and how many people have been followed,» says neuroscientist David Jett, director of the Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Program at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, which is spearheading R&D on several promising methods of neutralizing such agents.

Northwestern University neuroscientists now can read the mind of a fly.

Published March 22 in the journal Neuron, the research could one day help neuroscientists find new approaches to diagnosing and treating these disorders.

Cyberkinetics, a company cofounded by neuroscientist John Donoghue at Brown University, has begun clinical trials on an implant that can transmit signals from a paralyzed person's motor cortex to a computer or to a prosthetic limb.

An accompanying video animation called «Stealing Attention» (a collaboration with neuroscientist Michael E. Goldberg, Director of the Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior, Columbia University) draws parallels between card tricks and the looting of precious art objects from the Iraq National Museum after the fall of Baghdad.

CMBN is pleased to invite you to two guest lectures by renowned neuroscientists in connection with Silvia Holmseth's dissertation.

MSU's Behrad Noudoost was a co-author with Marc Zirnsak and other neuroscientists from the Tirin Moore Lab at Stanford University in publishing a recent paper on the research in Nature, an international weekly journal for natural sciences.

The latest study underscores a growing appreciation among neuroscientists for the importance of the brain's «white matter» — fat - covered clusters of axons that string neurons and the brain's two hemispheres together — in brain function.

Humans turn out to have special neural networks that give them what many cognitive neuroscientists call social intelligence.

Most neuroscientists think that studying brain scans may elicit overarching insights into the roots of violence, but individual scans lack the specificity to be used as evidence.

Most neuroscientists say thoughts are born from brain cells called neurons.

A UC Berkeley neuroscientist explains some of the surprisingly dramatic ways in which a lack of sleep affects the mind and body.

Rizvi also referenced Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S, - trained Pakistani neuroscientist known as «Lady al Qaida» serving 86 years in prison for the attempted murder of Americans in Afghanistan.

Michael Fox, a developmental neuroscientist at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, Va., says the results hint that different mechanisms guide brain cell growth, depending on when the cells are born.

Techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which highlights metabolically active areas of the brain, now allow neuroscientists to probe the biology behind bad intentions.

Indeed, Kriegeskorte says that these models have helped neuroscientists understand how people can recognize the objects around them in the blink of an eye.

So says neuroscientist Robert Burton, whose engaging new work exposes the involuntary, physiological roots of conviction.

New research from neuroscientist Richard Davidson shows that breathing techniques and meditation have had effective results on controlling one's emotions.

New research from Columbia neuroscientists shows how a small part of the brain single - handedly steadies the body if it is thrown off balance.

UCLA neuroscientist Larry Zipursky discovered this self - avoidance mechanism by studying a fly gene called DSCAM1.

Hearing of his myriad interests, the student suggested that Ramirez talk with neuroscientist Paul Lipton.

A group of Harvard neuroscientists interested in mindfulness meditation have reported that brain structures change after only eight weeks of meditation practice.

When neuroscientists find out what kind of message it is, they will make real progress — perhaps toward fighting pain, and definitely toward getting a better look at our secret selves.

A critical variable appears to be the effect of these early education programs on what neuroscientists call «executive function»: the brain activities that underlie each individual's mastery of self - control.

RECENTLY DEVELOPED powerful, yet also delicate and refined, genetic tools can invasively probe nervous systems of animals, far surpassing the safer but much cruder techniques that psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists use to observe the human brain.

Last year, Martin Monti, an experimental neuroscientist also at CBU, took this one step further.

«We found a world that we had never imagined,» says neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project and professor at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, «there are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions.

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.

Social Neuroscientist Dr. Mark Brady reveals all of our brains ask those we care about, «Are you there for me?»