I still
think about neuroscience all the time.
Not exact matches
Feeling joy when
thinking abstract
thoughts about God — that might not be positvely or negatively selected for since it doesn't affect your kids, but there is emerging evidence that it is a side effect of the way our brain is wired to process information, which itself is a product of evolution and will require picking up that
neuroscience text to understand.
Modern
neuroscience has kindled a similar revolution in the way we
think about the brain.
It's «a solid piece of evidence showing that those of us in neuroimaging need to do a better job
thinking about our sample, where it's coming from and who we can generalize our findings to,» says Christopher Monk, who studies psychology and
neuroscience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
I
think it's inevitable that with
neuroscience we're going to get to a point where, without [a person's] cooperation, we can be pretty accurate
about knowing what a person knows or feels or
thinks.
Sweeney found that the mechanistic answers that Pinker offered
about the mind — the brain - based mechanisms of
thought and consciousness being discovered by modern
neuroscience — inspired her to replace her Catholic faith with science's empirical skepticism, which she finds, after many hilarious detours, «a much more powerful and reliable tool for understanding the world.»
However, around that time my Mum was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and I became very interested in learning more
about this disease and ways to treat it.In January 2002 I decided, after much
thought, that I should change direction and study
neuroscience, as the best thing I could do for MS patients is to work on a cure.
Indeed, Oliva says; «Human cognitive and computational
neuroscience is a fast - growing area of research, and knowledge
about how the human brain is able to see, hear, feel,
think, remember, and predict is mandatory to develop better diagnostic tools, to repair the brain, and to make sure it develops well.»
But for all the Botox youthfulness plastic surgeons may want to
think about,
neuroscience raises a darker possibility.
«When we started this work, very few people were
thinking about how the nervous system and gut bacteria interact,» said Eisen, who is a member of the UO's Institute of
Neuroscience.
When Peg AtKisson, a
neuroscience Ph.D. who has been in research development for 15 years,
thinks about the number of grants she has helped get funded, she says, «I probably had more impact on science doing research development than I ever would have had if I had stayed in bench research.»
In the fall of 2005 the Dalai Lama delivered a lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience in Washington, D.C., highlighting the areas of convergence between neuroscience and Buddhist thought abo
Neuroscience in Washington, D.C., highlighting the areas of convergence between
neuroscience and Buddhist thought abo
neuroscience and Buddhist
thought about the mind.
UCLA undergraduate and graduate students in
neuroscience organized and staffed Brain Awareness Week, sponsored by UCLA's Brain Research Institute, to raise interest in research and get students
thinking about careers in science.
«I was basically fresh out of law school and started walking into classes at MIT during the day because this was kind of all I could
think about,» says Sonia, who at the time wore sneakers every day so that she could rush between work, classes, and a
neuroscience lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.
«Going from a
neuroscience postdoc in a lab setting into being a legislative assistant in the House of Representatives was
about as dramatic a shift, I
think, that you could possibly have,» said O'Hare.
I'm really intrigued by the application of cognitive
neuroscience, defined broadly, to the understanding of disease and how we
think about it and treat it.
The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive
Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, has the potential to radically reframe how researchers
think about ADHD.
Neuroscience, arguably more than any other aspect of biology, is a science that requires intense computation, because understanding the brain is
about understanding how billions and billions of neurons function in orchestras to regulate our
thoughts and behavior.
Who should attend: Members of the UW community who are interested in
thinking about ways to integrate ethics with science, particularly
neuroscience.
«If we want to
think about building a brain or re-engineering the brain, we need to know what parts we're working with,» said Nathan Urban, interim provost and director of Carnegie Mellon's BrainHubSM
neuroscience initiative.
«The results change our
thinking about how alcohol responses affect the development of an alcohol - use disorder,» said Andrea King, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral
neuroscience at the University of Chicago and lead author of the study.
«They're learning content
about neuroscience and neural engineering, and I
think it's changing their attitudes
about science... Those young students can see those researchers as role models,» said Dr. Eric Chudler, executive director and education director at the CSNE.
AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive
neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions
about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical
thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.
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