Sentences with phrase «of leading neuroscientists»

Built by a team of leading neuroscientists and mobile developers, playing Personal Zen actually retrains your brain to lower stress and anxiety.

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.

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Baroness Susan Greenfield, leading neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster, discusses how neuroscience can help brands and provide insights into the changing individuality of consumers.

Dr. Siegel's unique ability to make complicated scientific concepts easy to understand and exciting has led him to be invited to address diverse local, national and international groups of mental health professionals, neuroscientists, corporate leaders, educators, parents, public administrators, healthcare providers, policy - makers, and clergy.

«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.

Selected federal, state and administrative law judges have heard leading neuroscientists reflect on such topics as the neuroscience of violence and the brain, memory and lie detection, the adolescent brain, and states of consciousness.

«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.

«The feeling ultimately relies on the same statistical computations a computer would make,» says Professor Adam Kepecs, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and lead author of the new study.

«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.

World financial markets are at the mercy of overheated hormones, which leads both to irrational exuberance and irrational pessimism, says trader - turned - neuroscientist John Coates.

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.

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.

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.

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

Social neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman is publishing a formal response disagreeing with the Pashler paper [pdf], and both Ed Vul (the lead author of the original paper) and Lieberman have brought their views to Scientific American, as well.

«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.

«Despite its narrow therapeutic window and the emergence of proprietary alternatives, U.S. FDA - approved lithium therapeutics are still regarded as the «gold standard» for the treatment of the manic phase of bipolar disorder,» said study lead author Adam J. Smith, PhD, a neuroscientist at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, at USF Health.

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.

«This identifies a potential new way to treat the disease,» says lead investigator Mark Tuszynski, a neuroscientist at the University of California at San Diego.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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).

Medical devices connected to the brain are vulnerable to sabotage, and neuroscientists at the University of Oxford suggest that the same vulnerability applies to brain implants, leading to the possibility of a phenomenon called brainjacking.

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.

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).

It's as if the brain itself simulates the action while grasping the meaning of the words, says neuroscientist Lisa Aziz - Zadeh, now at the University of Southern California, who led the study.

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