Sentences with phrase «with leading neuroscientists»

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«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

A team led by Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist at University College London, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine the neural processing of vocal cues associated with four emotions: amusement, triumph, fear and disgust.

In the same issue, a team led by neuroscientists Joh - E Ikeda at Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan, and Michael Hayden at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver reports similar genetic variances in another Tunisian family with juvenile ALS and a Kuwaiti family with juvenile PLS..

To narrow down the list, a team of researchers led by Henry Lester, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, designed a mouse with a mutant version of the a4 * acetylcholine receptor subunit.

With that in mind, Scientific American invites you to create a photo (or two) for our Great Consciousness Contest that is based on a challenge set out by two leading neuroscientists, Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi, in the magazine's June issue.

In breakthrough research led by neuroscientist Olaf Blanke and his team at EPFL, Switzerland, the scientists show that phantom body pain can be reduced in paraplegics by creating a bodily illusion with the help of virtual reality.

Around 30 years ago, work by psychologists and neuroscientists began to show that our memories are easily suggestible, with the implication that leading questioning could implant false details, or even completely fictitious events, in the minds of eyewitnesses.

Recently, neuroscientist and KIBM Co-Director Nicholas Spitzer led a conversation with two nanoscience pioneers.

This led her to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship with the celebrated neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University, who pioneered the field of optogenetics.

A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.

October 26, 2015 Sheet music for creating the artificial sense of touch A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.

It has a world wide audience and includes interviews with many leading neuroscientists.

«We worked with sense specialist and neuroscientists and this led us to consider the way the brain processes multiple inputs of sense data,» Professor Barrett told BESA.

It has a world wide audience and includes interviews with many leading neuroscientists.

We recently welcomed new media artist Deborah Aschheim, who has been trying to visualize and understand memory and forgetting, an obsession that has led her to collaborate with musicians and neuroscientists, excavate family archives, conduct psychology research with herself as the subject and build misremembered cities.

He worked in alliance with Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev on the 14th Istanbul Biennial, where he also created a large - scale installation on a ship, as well as preparing the public program Thought Forms and Brain Waves: Neuro - Aesthetics and Art, which included some of the world's leading neuroscientists.

Dario Robleto is an internationally exhibited artist whose transdisciplinary explorations have led to collaborations with specialists in myriad fields, including artificial heart researchers, neuroscientists, glaciologists, and astronomers involved with the search for life in the Universe.

There are interviews with the leading figures in the movement and various experts: Zen Habit's Leo Babauta, Becoming Minimalist's Joshua Becker, Rowdy Kitten's Tammy Strobel, neuroscientist / author Sam Harris, Colin Beavan, aka «No Impact Man,» our own Graham Hill and many, many more.

It has a world wide audience and includes interviews with many leading neuroscientists.

Best - selling author Dr. Helen Fisher and neuroscientist Dr. Lucy Brown's research led them to conclude that: «Doing challenging, exciting, new things with your partner has proven both in and out of the lab to be one of the single most effective ways of keeping the spark alive.»

A study lead by neuroscientist Jim Coan will be published on PLOS, November 30, that shows the brain changes as measured using an fMRI protocol before and after EFT with distressed couples.