| 单词 | neurobiologist |
| 例句 | Disinherit the Wind A present-day neurobiologist challenges Darwin’s theory of evolution in Matt Chait’s courtroom drama. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 26-March 5: 'Paradise Lost: Reclaiming Destiny' and more 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z She thought little more about it until she mentioned the odour to Tilo Kunath, a neurobiologist who studies Parkinson’s at Edinburgh University. 'Super-smeller' helps develop swab test for Parkinson's disease 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Psychological studies have shown onset can often be traced to trauma; neurobiologists point to dysfunction in a processing loop that includes the basal ganglia; animal studies show compulsive behaviors are not limited to humans. 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' a rich, reasonable look at OCD 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z This neurobiologist has been looking for them for years and hasn't come up with anything definitive. TV review: The Boy Who Can't Forget; The Paradise 2012-09-25T21:10:01Z Disinherit the Wind A neurobiologist loses his professorship for mixing science and spirituality in Matt Chait's new drama. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 18-25: 'Kansas City Choir Boy' and more 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The most intriguing observations are those of Randolf Menzel, a German neurobiologist who views a bee colony as a single large animal. Movie Review: ‘More Than Honey,’ a Documentary by Markus Imhoof 2013-06-11T22:11:19Z Amy Bishop was a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z That would include British neurobiologist Colin Blakemore, who contends the defeat of aging would be "a disaster for humanity and the planet." 'The Immortalists' a vigorous look at quest to reverse aging 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The number of female neurobiologists may still be small, but girls often outdo boys in the classroom, including in the sciences. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z Even people who become literate in adulthood, as a team led by the French neurobiologist Stanislas Dehaene has shown, acquire differences that are visible in a brain scan. Real Worlds, Possible Worlds and Fantasy Worlds 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Mu Yang, a neurobiologist at Columbia University, also contributed. Misconduct concerns, possible drug risks should stop major stroke trial, whistleblowers say 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z That made Sigrun Korsching, a neurobiologist at the University of Cologne, wonder: Could bitter taste perception be even older than most believed? Ancient sharks may have pioneered the ability to taste bitterness in food 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Now, Northwestern University neurobiologists are the first to uncover what produces this punch-drunk effect. One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Our brains are “nonconsciously defending that higher weight,” Stephan Guyenet, a neurobiologist and the author of “The Hungry Brain,” told me — and they are even capable of slowing down our metabolism to that end. Bariatric Surgery at 16 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z To get to the bottom of this observation, the neurobiologist and his colleagues combined various experimental methods, including voltage-sensitive dyes and the analysis of connectome data sets. Distributed workload in the fly brain 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z “It’s like judging a fish by the ability to climb a tree,” says the study’s lead author, Jan Bielecki, a neurobiologist at Kiel University. No brain, no problem. Jellyfish learn just fine 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z That’s in part because scientists bring human assumptions and priorities to the experiments they design, says Jan Bielecki, a neurobiologist at Kiel University in Germany and co-author of the new research. These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn't Even Require a Brain 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z A new study in Cell Reports by neurobiologists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory highlights a molecular mechanism that might help account for the nuanced diversity of neural discourse. Individual neurons mix multiple RNA edits of key synapse protein, fly study finds 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “The approach offers great potential” to speed up the search for better smelling consumer products, adds Andreas Grasskamp, a neurobiologist who studies perception at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging. AI rivals the human nose when it comes to naming smells 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Years before co-author Wolf Hütteroth became a neurobiologist, he remembers one day seeing a lone duck floating down a fast-moving river. Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Some, such as neurobiologist Giorgio Vallortigara of the University of Trento in Italy, critique the notion of defining intelligence based on the brain and behavior of our own species. How Smart Were Dinosaurs? New Studies Fuel the Debate 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Retatrutide “will likely reset our expectations for what we consider an efficacious obesity drug”, says neurobiologist Amber Alhadeff at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in either study. Beyond Ozempic: New Obesity Drugs Could Be Cheaper and Even More Effective 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Just above the optic nerve in the brain is a master clock called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, said Dr. Ravi Allada, a neurobiologist who specializes in sleep and circadian rhythms at Northwestern University. Why do I wake up right before my alarm? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z “There’s a very special place in fly hell for me,” said Christi Gendron, a neurobiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. These Flies Age Faster After Witnessing Death 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Other features, like cadence and tension, are also used in both birdsong and human music, said Tina Roeske, a behavioral neurobiologist who specializes in birdsong. It Rocks in the Tree Tops, but Is That Bird Making Music? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The production of factors that spur neuronal growth depends on vitamin D, which has also proved critical to brain cell maturation, says Darryl Eyles, a developmental neurobiologist at the University of Queensland. Vitamin D Supplements Probably Won’t Prevent Mental Illness After All 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Over the past decade, some botanists and neurobiologists have suggested evidence for plant consciousness in their research — sparking criticism and finger-wagging from others who insist plants don’t have feelings. What do mushrooms sound like? Hear the psychedelic boops, beeps and womps for yourself 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The Science and Cell papers “comprise a rather small fraction of the overall body of work … for which Tessier-Lavigne is well known and widely admired,” adds Harvard University neurobiologist Joshua Sanes. Stanford misconduct probe of president stumbles as new journal launches inquiry 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Tamar Gutnick, an octopus neurobiologist at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, says the work opens a new door for inquiries into the social lives of these famously clever animals. Watch Octopuses Throw Things at Each Other 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z We were delighted when Harvard University neurobiologist Bruce Bean explained the possible mechanism. Athlete’s foot bleach treatment is controversial 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “Reconstructing the evolution of behaviors is always a daunting task, and acoustic communication even more,” adds Darcy Kelley, a neurobiologist at Columbia University, who was not involved in the work. Vertebrates May Have Used Vocal Communication More Than 100 Million Years Earlier Than We Thought 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But the research could help find new methods to repel mosquitoes, said Jeff Riffell, a neurobiologist at the University of Washington who was not involved with the study. Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z “In this day and age, it’s very easy to manipulate digital images. There’s a lot of trust built into science and trust can be abused,” says neurobiologist Tim Kennedy of McGill University. Stanford misconduct probe of president stumbles as new journal launches inquiry 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “The question of why some people are more attractive to mosquitoes than others—that’s the question that everybody asks you,” says study co-author Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist and mosquito expert at the Rockefeller University. Some People Really Are Mosquito Magnets, and They’re Stuck That Way 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z To do so, AI would have to “put together in some sense parts of the computer scientist, neurobiologist, psychologist, and mathematical theorist in the same brain,” Ganguli writes. Perspective | How do we draw the line between sports cheaters and sports strivers? 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Amyloid is “associated with the problem, but it isn’t ‘the’ problem”, says George Perry, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a sceptic of the amyloid hypothesis. Alzheimer’s Drug Slows Mental Decline in Trial—But Is It a Breakthrough? 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The finding “is really a breakthrough,” says Brigitte Malgrange, a developmental neurobiologist at the University of Liège who was not involved in the study. ‘Breakthrough’ finding shows how modern humans grow more brain cells than Neanderthals 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Allegations of scientific image manipulation are threatening Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neurobiologist and former biotech leader. Stanford misconduct probe of president stumbles as new journal launches inquiry 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z “There’s been speculation that GnRH must do something in the brain,” says neurobiologist Hanne Hoffmann of Michigan State University, who was not involved in the study but wrote an accompanying commentary in Science. A Hormone May Boost Cognition in Down Syndrome 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “I think a lot of people don’t focus on the fluids because they think they are not so important,” says postdoctoral neurobiologist Daphne Naessens. See the Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience Competition 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The researchers next want to figure out why a low sound over background noise is the “sweet spot,” says author Zhi Zhang, a neurobiologist at the University of Science and Technology of China. Soft sounds numb pain. Researchers may now know why 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z What makes our brain human has been the interest of neurobiologist Wieland Huttner at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics for years. ‘Breakthrough’ finding shows how modern humans grow more brain cells than Neanderthals 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “I’m very pleased,” says Kafui Dzirasa, a Duke University neurobiologist and psychiatrist who has urged NIH to take direct action to address the gap. NIH launches grant program aimed at closing the funding rate gap between Black and white investigators 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “Plants are masters of chemical warfare,” said Marco Gallio, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University who was not affiliated with the new study. Chewed and Rolled: How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z “Odor pleasantness is written into the structure” of the compounds we sniff, says Noam Sobel, a neurobiologist who studies smell perception at the Weizmann Institute of Science who calls the new work “a solid paper.” Stinky feet or something sweet? Cultures around the world respond to smells in the same way 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z The ultimate goal, however, is to manage pain in humans—and there are many differences between mice and people, notes Clifford Woolf, a neurobiologist at Harvard University who was not involved with the study. Soft sounds numb pain. Researchers may now know why 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “They have the biggest brain of any invertebrate by far,” said Joshua Rosenthal, a neurobiologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory. The Search for a Model Octopus That Won’t Die After Laying Its Eggs 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z “We are moving from a behavioral or physiological definition to a cellular and molecular definition,” says Philippe Mourrain, a neurobiologist at Stanford University. ‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Over the past 20 years neurobiologists have learned a great deal about the cellular circuits and the specialized molecules that carry pain signals. Toward Better Pain Control 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z “This is going to set the research community back 10–20 years,” says George Perry, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a sceptic of the amyloid hypothesis. Landmark Alzheimer's Drug Approval Confounds Research Community 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z But in the long term, it fuels pathological apprehension and despondency, as Stanford University neurobiologist Robert M. Sapolsky explains in his essential primer that opens this collection. The Pursuit of Resilience 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z There were neurobiologists and otorhinolaryngologists, virologists and food scientists. What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists and neurobiologists have written countless books and research papers on the topic but it all boils down to this: Human beings are prediction machines. Pandemic-Proof Your Habits 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z “The conclusions … are based on flawed assumptions and flawed analysis,” wrote Howard Hughes Medical Institute neurobiologist Leslie Vosshall in an open letter to Nature Communications calling for the paper’s retraction. After scalding critiques of study on gender and mentorship, journal says it is reviewing the work 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “It works incredibly well, and it lasts for a long time,” says Mark Zylka, the neurobiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who led the work. Is gene therapy ready to treat some forms of autism? 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s “really important” work, says Christopher Cederroth, a neurobiologist at the University of Nottingham, University Park, who was not involved with the study. Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z “So many things induce pain, and so little is known about why,” said Isaac Chiu, a neurobiologist at Harvard University who was not involved in the study. This Tree’s Leaves Look Soft and Inviting. Please Don’t Touch Them. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Darcy Kelley, a neurobiologist at Columbia who studies the courting songs of African clawed frogs, says she regularly attends meetings of specialists based at various institutions in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. New York and Boston maintain their lead 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The technology is “an inspiring demonstration of what’s possible” with portable neuroscience equipment, says Timothy Spellman, a neurobiologist at Weill Cornell Medicine who was not involved with the work. Brain-scanning backpack brings neuroscience into the real world 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z “This type of imaging is really going to the physiological problems of the disease,” says neurobiologist George Perry of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Oxford Brain Diagnostics: turning MRI into a diagnosis tool for dementia 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The second study, led by neurobiologist Sinisa Hrvatin of Harvard Medical School, induced torpor in mice by depriving them of food. Switch in Mouse Brain Induces a Deep Slumber Similar to Hibernation 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z "Said differently, only 2 of the field's current introductory textbooks describe brain evolution in a way that represents the consensus shared among comparative neurobiologists." No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Renowned French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux, who reviewed the study, told The Guardian that nicotine may be hindering the virus from entering the body’s cells and preventing its spread. Coronavirus patients to get nicotine patches in French study on smoking's effects 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Kennedy, a neurobiologist who was known for his humor, dedication to students and bold leadership, spent the bulk of his career in science and education at Stanford University. Donald Kennedy, former Stanford president and FDA chief, dies of COVID-19 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The renowned French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux, who reviewed the study, suggested the nicotine might stop the virus from reaching cells in the body preventing its spread. French researchers to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Mancuso, a plant neurobiologist at the University of Florence, opens his book with an anecdote about nature reclaiming an abandoned army depot on his college campus. Nature surrounds us, even in quarantine 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z But Igor Siwanowicz, a neurobiologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who specializes in capturing images of tiny creatures with a laser-scanning microscope and other tools, pulled it off with aplomb. Introducing the April 2020 Issue 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In 2017 neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone of Harvard Medical School published a study of newborn macaques that found connectivity precedes function—but only as far as visual maps. Born Ready: Babies Are Prewired to Perceive the World 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z I am a neurobiologist who studies how mammalian brain circuits are tuned by experience and neural activity during development. Orderly desk, orderly mind 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s been known for more than a decade that this textbook model is partly wrong and largely incomplete, said neurobiologist Saskia de Vries of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, who led the mouse-vision study. What Mice Watching Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil” Can Teach Scientists About Vision 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z As neurobiologist and historian Matthew Cobb at the University of Manchester, UK, writes, “no major conceptual innovation has been made in our overall understanding of how the brain works for over half a century”7. Science must move with the times 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “Rats will help other rats, and that is pretty amazing,” said professor Peggy Mason, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago, who conducted the study. Low-key and loving: Are rats the perfect pet? | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Davletov and his collaborator Stephen Hunt, a neurobiologist at University College London, have been experimenting with delivering botulinum toxin — more commonly known as botox — to peripheral nerves to mute pain. Analgesia without opioids 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “It’s pretty amazing,” said Giorgia Quadrato, a neurobiologist at the University of Southern California who was not involved in the new study. Organoids aren’t brains; how are they making brain waves? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Todd Gould, a neurobiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, acknowledges the poor track record of the forced-swim test. Depression researchers rethink popular mouse swim tests 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Heart disease is “the elephant in the room” for former NFL players, says the study’s senior author Marc Weisskopf, a Harvard neurobiologist and epidemiologist. Former football pros die at a faster rate than baseball veterans—and the reasons are surprising 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Nobel-prizewinning neurobiologist Paul Greengard worked tirelessly to understand the chemical signalling of the brain — important in diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia — right up to his death last month at the age of 93. Daily briefing: Biggest-ever synthetic genome recodes E. coli without redundant bits 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “The data is pretty overwhelming that the level of pain relief from chronic non-cancer pain is very low indeed,” says Clifford Woolf, a neurobiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts. Analgesia without opioids 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z And it paints an unflattering picture of Charney, a prominent neurobiologist and psychiatrist. Global health institute sued for age and sex discrimination 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Early on in this timely, ambitious volume, neurobiologist and science writer Dean A. Haycock offers the reader a mental exercise. Review | Psychoanalyzing history’s meanest men 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z A neurobiologist agreed, stating that Israeli scientists often succeed thanks to “brightness” rather than by hard work. Culture Wars in the Lab 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “Until very recently there was still this belief that human speech and mammalian vocalizations are two completely different things,” said Steffen R. Hage, a neurobiologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany. These Mice Sing to One Another — Politely 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z “This is the first effort to go make a genetically tractable model,” meaning a species with catalogued and manipulable genes, said neurobiologist Joshua Rosenthal, who leads the laboratory’s initiative. Inside the grand and sometimes slimy plan to turn octopuses into lab animals 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z On Twitter, neurobiologist Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University in New York City described the development as “the paper of the future”. Pioneering 'live-code' article allows scientists to play with each other’s results 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “It's not going to do anything ketamine doesn't do, but it will cost 10 to 100 times as much as ketamine,” says Scott Thompson, a neurobiologist at the University of Maryland. Party-Drug-Turned-Antidepressant Approaches Approval 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The 30-minute journey illustrates the difference between cultures in Seattle, Washington, and Boston, Massachusetts, Reid says — he worked as a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston before joining the Allen institute in 2012. Washington state’s tech billionaires pour cash into global health 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The work shows “the platform upon which the nervous system was built was there” in the last common ancestor of animals, says Timothy Jegla, a neurobiologist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. The gluey tentacles of comb jellies may have revealed when nerve cells first evolved 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Harvard University neurobiologist Qiufu Ma and his team wanted to tease apart different aspects of pain, not just in the brain but in the neurons throughout our bodies that relay signals up the spinal cord. Newly discovered pain pathway may help explain why animal tests fail to reveal the best painkillers 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z But Oscar Marín, a developmental neurobiologist at King’s College London, says a supply shortage is the least of his worries. Looming Parliament vote boosts Brexit jitters for U.K. scientists 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Curiosity piqued, I call neurobiologist Martin Göpfert at the University of Göttingen in Germany, who studies hearing in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Awesome Ears: The Weird World of Insect Hearing 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “How do we avoid wasting our time as mentors and our students’ time as learners and researchers?” asks neurobiologist Shaun Khoo. Daily briefing: Exoplanet spotted orbiting Barnard’s star 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z A new book by neurobiologist Michael Land reveals the astonishing variety of vision, starting with his 1960s discovery of the scallop’s bizarre telescope-like reflecting mechanism. Daily briefing: A Magna Carta for the Web 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “I understand the vocabulary is limited for describing what a licking response might actually reflect,” says Kathryn Albers, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Newly discovered pain pathway may help explain why animal tests fail to reveal the best painkillers 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z On the initiative of neurobiologist David Anderson at the California Institute of Technology, Paul and his sister Jody Allen started the Allen Brain Atlas in 2003 at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. Paul G. Allen (1953–2018) 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Many years ago, in a past life, I was a neurobiologist focusing on how neuronal networks are shaped in the living brain. How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Can Revolutionize Science 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In the posthumously published The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist, influential neurobiologist Barres is as open as he was in life. Daily briefing: So you want to be a cyborg? 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z A highly influential neurobiologist and advocate for women in science, Barres lived an unusually interesting life. Ben Barres: neuroscience pioneer, gender champion 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The new paper is a “really insightful” look at what drives the emotional side of pain, says Gregory Dussor, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas in Dallas. Newly discovered pain pathway may help explain why animal tests fail to reveal the best painkillers 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Because inhibitory signals are impossible to record with approaches such as calcium imaging, it’s unclear how exactly they shape brain activity, says Rosa Cossart, a neurobiologist at the Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology in Marseilles, France. A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z “It answers a long-term question about how the hair cells in the inner ear actually work,” says David Corey, a neurobiologist at Harvard University and co-senior author of the new paper. A 40-Year Quest Uncovers Hearing's "Holy Grail" Protein 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “Are we are going to tie up the whole field for another 15 to 20 years?” asks George Perry, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The amyloid hypothesis on trial 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “This paper is the absolute definition of a tour de force in terms of the technical accomplishment,” says neurobiologist Cornelia Bargmann of The Rockefeller University in New York City. In a ‘tour de force,’ researchers image an entire fly brain in minute detail 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z While in Oxford, I met one of her frequent collaborators, the neurobiologist David Bennett, whose research involves patients who, because of rare genetic mutations, cannot feel pain. The Neuroscience of Pain 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Pierre Vanderhaeghen, a developmental neurobiologist at the Free University of Brussels, uncovered the same set of genes when he found a way to screen human fetal brain tissue for duplicated genes. Trio of genes supercharged human brain evolution 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z David Anderson, a neurobiologist at the California Institute of Technology, agrees with this explanation. Fruit Flies Likely Enjoy Sex, Offering Clues Into Drug Addiction 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The same syndrome affected one victim of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's sarin terrorism, says Bahie Abou-Donia, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Seeking answers for Iran’s chemical weapons victims—before time runs out 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z As former neurobiologist Liam Drew reminds us in this splendid evolutionary study, humans belong to an exclusive club, along with aardvarks and bumblebee bats. Books in brief “Sheep are capable of sophisticated decision making,” said study author Jenny Morton, a neurobiologist at the University of Cambridge. Sheep learned to recognize photos of Obama and other celebrities, neuroscientists say 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The finding complements one reported earlier this spring by Wieland Huttner, a neurobiologist at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. Trio of genes supercharged human brain evolution 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “Sheep are capable of sophisticated decision making,” said study author Jenny Morton, a neurobiologist at the University of Cambridge. Sheep learned to recognize photos of Obama and other celebrities, neuroscientists say 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z These observations suggest an unanticipated level of connectivity between cells, says Amin Rustom, a neurobiologist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, who first spotted such tubes as a graduate student almost 20 years ago. How the Internet of cells has biologists buzzing 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z He employs this tactic against neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky of Stanford, who for decades has studied baboons in East Africa. Chimp Guy Knocks Baboon Guy's Upbeat View of Human War 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Branson hopes the resource will serve as a launching pad for other neurobiologists seeking to manipulate part of the brain or study a specific behavior. Artificial intelligence helps scientists map behavior in the fruit fly brain 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Dr. Counter, a neurobiologist, joined the Harvard faculty in 1970 and later became a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School. S. Allen Counter, who found descendants of U.S. explorers in Greenland, dies at 73 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The research, published Thursday in the journal Cell and led by a prominent neurobiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was conducted in mice, and many questions remain about its potential application to people. New Electrical Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise in Mice 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Another panelist, Mara Dierssen, a neurobiologist at the Centre of Genomic Research, argued that “countries that invest a lot in science have a higher level of life quality and stronger economies. “ Live updates from the global March for Science 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Clifford Woolf, a neurobiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital led a group of dozens of fellow neuroscientists at the Harvard rally, all wearing blue bandanas around their heads. What's happening at March for Science events around the world 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z “Smart People” explores racism against that momentous backdrop, with four achievers and intellectuals — an actress, a doctor, a neurobiologist and a psychologist — grappling with cultural bias while searching for love and acceptance. 10 things to do in the D.C. area the weekend of April 14-16 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps the chef owns an oven that doesn't heat up well, said Joshua Rosenthal, a neurobiologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and an author of the new study. Octopuses and squids can rewrite their RNA. Is that why they’re so smart? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z That discrepancy puzzled Mu-ming Poo, a neurobiologist at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China, and one of the study’s authors. Monkeys master a key sign of self-awareness: recognizing their reflections 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Helen Wilfehrt, a neurobiologist who is self-employed, has arrived early to spread the good vibe. Live updates from the global March for Science 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A neurobiologist at Yale University, he usually studies rodent feeding behavior in his lab. Lasers turn mice into lethal hunters 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “The bat vocal communication field is like where the songbird field was 60 years ago,” says Michael Yartsev, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies neural circuits in bats. Bat banter is surprisingly nuanced 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “This is a game changer,” says Andrew Huberman, a neurobiologist at Stanford University, California. AI science search engines expand their reach 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But at this stage we need to encourage experimental neurobiologists to form long-term interdisciplinary collaborations with theoreticians, mathematicians or physicists. US mental-health chief: psychiatry must get serious about mathematics 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z GAROUA, Cameroon—Not long ago, a Dutch neurobiologist announced a surprising discovery: A root used by rural West African healers to treat pain contains an apparently natural version of a man-made opioid. Tramadol: The Opioid Crisis for the Rest of the World 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z At 18, I was set on medical school, with the hopes of becoming a neurobiologist. Advice for New Students From Those Who Know (Older Students) 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “It’s an amazing result,” says Harold Zakon, an evolutionary neurobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, who was not involved with the work. How naked mole rats conquered pain—and what it could mean for us 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “I think this very much continues in that tradition,” says Eric Morrow, a developmental neurobiologist and psychiatrist at Brown University. U.S. mental health institute puts champion of basic science at the helm 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “Culture plays a role. We like the music we grew up with,” agrees Dale Purves, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Poor musical taste? Blame your upbringing 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Dr. MacKinnon’s hands and arms dangerously cramped up a decade ago when he was kayaking with colleague Bruce Bean, a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School, roughly 7 miles off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. A New Way to Prevent Muscle Cramps 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z But exactly how the brain generates our mind is a mystery like no other in science, according to the neurobiologist Prof Rafael Yuste of Columbia University. The immortalist: Uploading the mind to a computer - BBC News 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Henry Markram, a neurobiologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne who is leading the Blue Brain Project, noted3 at the time: “It is not a brain model.” Neural modelling: Abstractions of the mind : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “It is pretty scary,” said Dr. Urs Meyer, a behavioral neurobiologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich who studies the consequences of fetal infections in lab animals. Zika May Increase Risk of Mental Illness, Researchers Say 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Road rage is just one example of what neurobiologist Douglas Fields calls “snapping.” Your Brain Is Hardwired to Snap 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Schmidt began his graduate training as neurobiologist, and he loved studying the brain. The Living Dead 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z She hired a neurobiologist to guide her in the world of medical research. Parents of Children With Rare Diseases Find Hope in For-Profit Companies 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z These Hodgkin–Huxley equations are “beautiful and inspirational”, says neurobiologist Anthony Zador of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, adding that they have allowed many scientists to make predictions about how neuronal excitability works. Neural modelling: Abstractions of the mind : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Ron Frostig, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine who was not involved with the study, says it’s critical that introducing a new sense doesn’t compromise existing senses. Brain implant lets rats ‘see’ infrared light 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Sue Carter, a behavioural neurobiologist at Indiana University in Bloomington, says that the animals’ method of transferring parental responsibility through faeces is interesting. Poo turns naked mole rats into better babysitters 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Plus, the eel’s attack is really, really fast, says Ken Catania, a neurobiologist at Vanderbilt University and author of the study published today in Nature Communications. The Electric Eel’s Superpower Just Got Even Cooler 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “It's not the worst drug-use disorder, but it's also not a good thing — and the relapse rates are very high,” says Margaret Haney, a neurobiologist at Columbia University in New York. Medical marijuana: Showdown at the cannabis corral : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z “The big advantage of the Reichardt model for motion detection was that it was an algorithm to begin with,” says neurobiologist Alexander Borst of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany. Neural modelling: Abstractions of the mind : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Physicists and neurobiologists agree that both the universe without and the universe within—the human brain—contain elements that are deterministic but not predictable. The Sum of Human Knowledge 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z A moth's visual system is matched to its task, says Jessica Fox, a neurobiologist at Case Western University who didn’t participate in the study. A robot flower experiment reveals how hawkmoths see at dusk 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Duke University neurobiologist Erich Jarvis, who studies vocal learning in birds, agrees that bats are poised as our fellow mammals to reveal more of the details of human language acquisition. Baby Bats Babble through Childhood Like We Do 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Margaret Haney, a neurobiologist at Columbia University in New York, notes that there is a considerable expectancy effect — preconceptions about cannabis skew how users respond. Medical marijuana: Showdown at the cannabis corral : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Carlson is a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School, and Earls is a Harvard psychiatrist. The Power of Touch 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Stanford University neurobiologist H. Craig Heller has studied black bears and northern brown bears, both of which hibernate. Hibernation for humans may not be a pipe dream forever 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But then Carlson, a neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School, noticed something. The Power of Touch 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Out of more than 100 candidates, they and Duke developmental neurobiologist Debra Silver tested a half-dozen. Human DNA enlarges mouse brains 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Tamas Horvath, the study's lead author and a Yale professor and neurobiologist, likened the reaction to hitting a car's brakes and accelerating instead. Why you crave Twinkies after smoking marijuana 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “The more we can understand about how mosquitoes sense human odors, the better we will be at designing repellents and baits,” says Carolyn McBride, the evolutionary neurobiologist at Princeton University who led the work. Gene turns mosquito into vampire 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z “It is definitely intellectually stimulating to be around them,” says neurobiologist Nachum Ulanovsky from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who visited the Trondheim institute for the first time in September. Neuroscience: Brains of Norway 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z But, in the view of many modern psychologists and neurobiologists, the “mind” is not some nonmaterial and exotic essence separate from the body. The Anatomy of Attention 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Her parents arrived in the United States as graduate students — her father is a molecular neurobiologist, her mother an oncologist — and there were no nannies, no housekeepers in her household. A Capstone in a Career Spent Fighting for the Rights of Domestic Workers 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z “There's a growing appreciation of the complexity of the clinical problem,” says Thomas Reh, a neurobiologist working on cell transplants for the eye at the University of Washington in Seattle. Curing blindness: Vision quest 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “It’s a very cool fact that you can use one molecule to do a negative thing and a positive one,” said Julie A. Mustard, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at Brownsville. How Caffeine Evolved to Help Plants Survive and Help People Wake Up 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “What is amazing is the robustness of this phenomenon,” says Massimo Scanziani, a neurobiologist at the University of California, San Diego. Running cures blind mice 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z He will be succeeded by Cori Bargmann, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University and one of the inaugural winners of the prize. Mathematicians claim share of science’s most lucrative prize : Nature News Blog 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z “The report is broad but also scientifically very deep and sound,” adds neurobiologist Rafael Yuste of Columbia University in New York. Ambitious plans for BRAIN project unveiled 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “It’s thought to be an area important for understanding your environment and how you fit in,” said neurobiologist Ronald Duman of Yale University, who also was not involved in the research. Scientist homing in on part of the brain that chooses depression vs. resilience Courtney Miller, a co-author of the study and a neurobiologist at Scripps, points out that the technique's limited usefulness helps to alleviate ethical concerns about memory alteration. Memories of Meth Can Be Deleted 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z But none of these experiments showed definitively that LTP was the basis of memory, says Robert Malenka, a neurobiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, who was not involved in the latest work. Flashes of light show how memories are made 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z "Previously, people would argue that neurons only help make new memories," said neurobiologist and study author Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Brain's production of new nerve cells may account for loss of early memory 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z But a vast majority of neurobiologists say the so-called rational and emotional brains are much more integrated than his model suggests. A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Previously, people would argue that neurons only help make new memories,” said neurobiologist and study author Paul Frankland of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. New brain cells could wipe out old memories, study says “The injured squid were really touchy,” Robyn Crook, an evolutionary neurobiologist at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, which led the study, the Los Angeles. The Study of Injured Squid Explains Human Irritability and Pain 2014-05-09T04:31:52Z “Orthodox neurobiologists and orthodox immunologists have been sceptical.” Inflammation Reduced with Behavioral Training 2014-05-06T13:35:00Z The changes very likely occur prenatally, said Lein, a developmental neurobiologist, since these parts of the cortex are generally laid down in the second trimester. Autism Can Start During Second Trimester of Pregnancy 2014-03-26T21:00:48Z “Ten thousand is kind of pathetic — it’s a pretty low number,” said study author and molecular neurobiologist Leslie Vosshall of the Rockefeller University. Human nose can detect at least 1 trillion odors — far more than thought, says study of smell 2014-03-20T18:00:00Z The proposed explanation for why some animals avoid power lines is “a plausible suggestion, rather than a convincing theory”, says Michael Land, a neurobiologist who studies vision at the University of Sussex. Why Reindeer Steer Clear of Power Lines 2014-03-14T17:30:00Z Robyn Crook, an evolutionary neurobiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, is asking many of the same questions of cephalopods, such as squids and octopuses. Do lobsters and other invertebrates feel pain? New research has some answers. 2014-03-10T15:15:50Z Loaded with signaling molecules, exosomes spread through the body “like messages in a bottle,” says R. Douglas Fields, a neurobiologist at the National Institutes of Health. Naturally Occurring Packets Show Promise for Protecting Nerve Fibers in the Brain 2014-03-05T13:00:00Z “There’s no mirror in nature,” said study author and neurobiologist Peggy Mason. Rodent empathy is environmental and not genetic, study shows 2014-01-14T16:45:00Z Schiller and colleagues, including neurobiologist Joseph LeDoux of New York University, were able to see this happening by having the subjects participate in these experiments while inside an fMRI brain scanner. How to Erase Bad Memories 2013-11-26T12:45:04.947Z The findings will probably interest people designing pain-relieving drugs, says molecular neurobiologist Gary Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. The tiny southern grasshopper mouse can eat scorpions without feeling any pain 2013-11-04T22:28:34Z The findings largely confirm prevailing theories about microcephaly, says Arnold Kriegstein, a developmental neurobiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Stem Cells Mimic Human Brain 2013-08-28T19:15:00.590Z Miguel Nicolelis, a neurobiologist at Duke University, and his colleagues trained six rats to poke their nose inside a port when the LED light above it lit up. Brain Implant Could Enhance Our Senses 2013-08-12T13:15:05.723Z “Early-life stress and the scar tissue that it leaves, with every passing bit of aging, gets harder and harder to reverse,” says Robert Sapolsky, a neurobiologist at Stanford. | The Great Divide: Status and Stress 2013-07-27T18:30:23Z "We initially thought this might be a mechanical device," said Professor Weiming Li, a neurobiologist on the team that undertook the study. Bizarre 'vampires' heat up for sex 2013-06-27T08:48:20Z David Cox, a neurobiologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has decided to take advantage of other countries' science investments. Funding: Flirting with disaster 2013-06-26T17:20:38.273Z The study was a unusual interdisciplinary cooperation between the neurobiologists from Dresden, studying mice, and psychologists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. What's Individuality, and Where Does It Come From? 2013-05-22T15:15:02.397Z “Having artists in residence in my lab just didn't work for me,” says Beau Lotto, a neurobiologist at University College London. Interdisciplinarity: Artistic merit 2013-04-24T17:21:11.410Z It's "really fascinating" work, says Oliver Bosch, a neurobiologist at the University of Regensburg in Germany, who was not involved in the research. How Rocking a Baby Is Like Grabbing a Rat by the Neck 2013-04-18T17:40:00Z I got interested in stem cell biology –not because I’m a stem cell biologist, but because I’m a neurobiologist interested in disease. Using Stem Cells To Identify Better (And Cheaper) Drugs 2013-03-20T14:46:17Z “It allows a much better view of the dynamics throughout the brain during different behaviors and during learning paradigms,” says Joseph Fetcho, a neurobiologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Flashing Fish Brains Filmed in Action 2013-03-19T21:15:00.803Z After rotating through the usual three labs without finding a suitable home, she begged neurobiologist Patricia Janak for the chance to do one last placement in her lab. From the frontline: 30 something science 2013-03-06T18:21:41.007Z Neuroscientists are increasingly recognizing the role of the immune system and inflammation in brain disease, notes James Koenig, a neurobiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. One-Two Punch of Infection, Stress May Lead to Schizophrenia 2013-02-28T19:10:00Z Raff, a neurobiologist and now emeritus professor at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology at University College London, had been invited to present at a symposium on cell membranes. Presentations: Pressure to perform 2013-02-20T18:21:27.497Z Further verification of the results is needed, however, due to the small number of ALS and FTD patients whose brain tissue was studied, cautions Robert Bowser, a neurobiologist at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. What Causes Lou Gehrig's Sticky Masses? 2013-02-07T19:10:00Z "This is definitely new and exciting," says Frank Zufall, a neurobiologist at Saarland University's School of Medicine in Homburg, Germany, who was not involved in the work. Can You Smell Yourself? 2013-01-22T22:10:00Z There's one caveat, says developmental neurobiologist Michael Wegner of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany who was not involved in the study. Leprosy Reprograms the Body 2013-01-17T17:00:00Z But I knew that Miguel Nicolelis, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, was recording many primate neurons at once using hundreds of electrodes. Turning point: Rui Costa 2013-01-09T22:51:23.187Z Despite comb jellies' complexity, DNA sequences in the Pleurobrachia genome place them at the base of the animal tree of life, announced Swalla's colleague Leonid Moroz, a neurobiologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Genome Reveals Comb Jellies' Ancient Origin 2013-01-09T15:15:00.317Z With the aid of purified NGF and NGF antibodies the neurobiologist is now able to increase the number of sympathetic neurons in an animal tenfold or to eliminate them altogether. The Nerve-Growth Factor: A New Tool for Manipulating Neurons 2013-01-03T11:15:00.190Z At that time, neurobiologists thought differences in the number and function of various nerve cells were mostly the consequence of proliferative processes. Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini 2012-12-30T17:45:00.203Z Psychiatrists and neurobiologists have observed biochemical changes and alterations in brain connections in patients with schizophrenia. Op-Ed Contributor: Our Failed Approach to Schizophrenia 2012-12-26T02:50:22Z In the first case, Paul Plotsky, a neurobiologist at Emory University, described what happened when he tweaked one of the most widely used models of how maternal separation affects young rats. Mind: Understanding the Effects of Social Environment on Trauma Victims 2012-12-24T19:44:13Z When University of Cambridge neurobiologist Jenny Morton began working with sheep five years ago, she anticipated docile, dull creatures. Sheep Help Scientists Fight Huntington s Disease 2012-12-16T15:15:00.180Z Psychologists, neurobiologists and even economists are increasingly interested in the overarching question of how and why we become our better selves. 18 and Under: Understanding How Children Develop Empathy 2012-12-10T21:46:26Z Yet the neurobiologist, whose tenacity and preciseness are immediately apparent in her light, steel-blue eyes and elegant black-and-white attire, embraces the forces that shaped her. Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini 2012-12-30T17:45:00.203Z Observations such as these led a team at Boston Children’s Hospital, led by neurobiologist Gabriel Corfas, to investigate the effects of social isolation on mice bioengineered to develop fluorescent oligodendrocytes – the cells that produce myelin. The story of a lonely brain 2012-10-01T23:15:06.163Z “I am deeply concerned,” says Darcy Kelley, a neurobiologist at Columbia University in New York City, who studies neural and muscular systems involved in vocal communication in the frog Xenopus. FedEx and UPS Commit to Not Ship Research Mammals 2012-09-20T15:45:04.870Z In this excerpt, the authors describe the work of neurobiologist Oliver Bosch, a specialist in maternal behavior, who worked with Young's prairie voles to study the bitter price of bonding. Love Hurts: Brain Chemistry Explains the Pangs of Separation [Excerpt] 2012-09-14T14:45:00.227Z To conduct the study, researchers headed by David Borsook, a neurologist and neurobiologist of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, recruited 44 men and women, half of whom were migraine sufferers. Why Do Women Get More Migraines? 2012-08-13T21:22:31Z In addition, co-author Jenny Morton, a neurobiologist at Cambridge, hopes to incorporate this work in her efforts to understand the full repertoire of normal sheep behavior. Lambs on the Lam Suggest Selfishness Motivates Herd Behavior 2012-07-24T14:15:00.200Z Welcome, rejuvenating interludes were brought by Robert Gupta, a neurobiologist, violinist, and founder of the Street Symphony organization, which brings music to homeless and mentally ill on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. TEDMED 2012: Dessert! 2012-06-19T14:15:00.403Z Your character in The Big Bang Theory is a neurobiologist. Turning point: Mayim Bialik 2012-05-30T17:50:53.437Z On a large scale, the brain probably is organized like this, agrees David Van Essen, a neurobiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Brain's Nerves Found to Line Up Like a Grid 2012-03-29T21:15:00.227Z Brain Butterflies’ circadian clocks help them sense decreasing day length and trigger the migration, says study co-author Steven Reppert, a neurobiologist at the University of Massachusetts. A Long Flight but No Baggage 2012-01-17T17:15:09.767Z "There's this whole different molecular mechanism for increasing protein diversity," says molecular neurobiologist Ronald Emeson of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Octopuses Rewrite Their RNA to Beat the Cold 2012-01-05T19:10:00Z “There’s been this enduring myth that snakes are deaf,” says neurobiologist Bruce Young of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who was not involved in the new research. How snakes hear without ears 2012-01-02T22:47:28Z He spoke to his brother, Arthur, a neurobiologist, who sent him mathematical models of how the cerebellum worked. | Eric Lander: Broad Institute Director Finds Power in Numbers 2012-01-02T16:20:05Z "There's been this enduring myth that snakes are deaf," says neurobiologist Bruce Young of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who was not involved in the new research. Vibrating Skulls Help Snakes Hear 2011-12-22T05:15:00Z “There are many challenges to actively moving soft robots and no easy solutions,” Tufts neurobiologist Barry Trimmer, who worked on the caterpillar robot, said in an email. Harvard researchers build flexible robot that can crawl, slither under a pane of glass 2011-11-28T19:58:08Z Generating controversial theories is not new to this evolutionary neurobiologist. MIND Reviews: Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man 2011-10-28T17:15:00.207Z Towards this end, Steven Reppert, a neurobiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and his colleagues are sequencing the monarch genome. Monarchs flood New York City 2011-10-10T20:15:08.197Z By inserting a Teflon-coated wire into the nostrils of nearly 60 volunteers, neurobiologist Noam Sobel, from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, measured how small patches of the nasal lining respond to specific smells. The Hedonic Nose: Pleasure May Organize Your Sense of Smell 2011-09-26T12:45:00.183Z Now, a mainland researcher, neurobiologist Yi Rao of Peking University, is insisting that co-authors identify their university as being located in "Taiwan, China," even asking Taiwanese scientific authorities to endorse that format. Where to Locate Taiwan? Chinese Co-Authors Disagree 2011-08-12T18:03:20Z Enter a team from the California Institute of Technology, under the leadership of neurobiologist David J. Anderson. An On-Off Switch for Sex and Violence 2011-07-26T13:45:00.237Z At Harvard, Dr. David Clapham, a neurobiologist, discovered that sperm tails contain calcium ion channels, with electrically charged atoms “turbo-charging the sperm” to reach eggs, he said. The Search for a Male Contraceptive That Men Might Not Mind 2011-07-23T20:29:40Z The study was impressive and surprising, said Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University, a neurobiologist who did groundbreaking studies on stress in baboons and was not involved in the new study. For baboons, at least, beta males may not have it so bad after all 2011-07-23T00:27:07Z One signatory, neurobiologist David Schubert of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, is distancing himself from the Greenpeace attack. Vandals Attack Transgenic Wheat Test Plot 2011-07-15T16:03:05Z The study was both impressive and surprising, said Robert Sapolsky of Stanford, a neurobiologist who did groundbreaking studies on stress in baboons and was not involved in the new study. For Baboons, at Least, Betas May Have It Better 2011-07-14T18:02:02Z I am not a psychiatrist, psychologist or neurobiologist, but to a lay reader there seem to be limitations in describing pathological behavior in terms of zero degrees of empathy. Books On Science: From Hitler to Mother Teresa: 6 Degrees of Empathy 2011-06-13T21:07:48Z Slow waves were thought to be absent during normal waking behavior, but the new study emphasizes that slow-wave activity can be very localized, says David McCormick, a neurobiologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Surreptitious Sleep States Uncovered 2011-04-27T21:15:00.460Z That echoes by Nina Kraus , a neurobiologist at , which showed that musicians are better at hearing sound against background noise, and that their brains expend less energy detecting emotion in babies’ cries. To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons 2011-04-19T05:21:41Z That echoes research by Nina Kraus, a neurobiologist at Northwestern University, which showed that musicians are better at hearing sound against background noise, and that their brains expend less energy detecting emotion in babies’ cries. To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons 2011-04-18T17:42:29Z Stephen Haggarty, a chemical neurobiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is tackling the genetic complexity of mental illness head-on. Schizophrenia 'in a Dish' 2011-04-13T23:45:04.967Z New findings by neurobiologists at the University of Washington suggest that both patterns are important. Social Wasps Show How Bigger Brains Provide Complex Cognition 2011-04-13T15:29:00Z Alcino Silva, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an expert on the biology of memory enhancement who was not involved in the new study, agrees. Knocking Out a 'Dumb' Gene Boosts Memory in Mice 2011-02-15T14:15:00.427Z "What is wrong in these patients, we see in these cells," said Ricardo Dolmetsch, a neurobiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine and senior author of the study, published online Wednesday in the journal Nature. Stanford research team builds tiny broken heart to study lethal ailment 2011-02-10T05:36:03Z Right now, the differences are "hard to get excited about," says neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who was not involved with the study. What Did George Washington Really Look Like? 2011-02-04T17:37:45Z “It never occurred to me that microflora would have anything to do with brain development,” adds Bryan Kolb, a neurobiologist at the University of Lethbridge in Canada who has studied brain development for 35 years. Do Gut Bugs Practice Mind Control? 2011-01-31T20:00:00Z The team's results, published today in , offer a new piece of the consolidation puzzle, says neurobiologist Alcino Silva of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study. Growth Hormone Also a Memory Booster 2011-01-26T18:01:00Z “This is a Herculean effort,” neurobiologist Paul Shaw of Washington University in St. Louis says of the study. Tallying the Caloric Cost of an All-Nighter 2011-01-20T15:31:00Z "It's hard to get men to volunteer to cry" in a lab, noted Weizmann neurobiologist Noam Sobel, senior author of the study appearing in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Chemical signal in women's tears a turnoff for men 2011-01-06T19:41:41Z “Taste cells express all sorts of different peptide hormones that are used in other areas of the body for regulating satiety or blood glucose,” says Steven Munger, a neurobiologist at the University of Maryland. Taste: More than meets the mouth 2011-01-04T21:23:24.257Z The study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, was conducted by a team led by neurobiologist Isabelle Mansuy of the University of Zurich. Study: PTSD Survivors' Children May Have Genetic Scars 2010-09-16T14:35:00Z Luo Minmin, 37, a neurobiologist, returned to China six years ago after getting his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and completing a postdoctoral research stint at Duke. China pushing the envelope on science, and sometimes ethics 2010-06-28T04:00:00Z “What was really astounding is that these cells that were blind for a while were still connected to the rest of the circuit,” says neurobiologist Botond Roska, who led the study. Blind Mice See Again 2010-06-25T15:43:00Z Melina Uncapher, a neurobiologist on the Stanford team, said she and other researchers were unsure whether the muddied multitaskers were simply prone to distraction and would have had trouble focusing in any era. Your Brain on Computers: Attached to Technology and Paying a Price 2010-06-07T03:06:00Z Bishop, a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, was arrested and charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of attempted murder. Survivor: Alabama Professor in Slayings Shot Methodically 2010-02-16T21:05:00Z I am currently a neurobiologist at an Ivy League institution, and my colleagues and students basically accept the tics for what they are, which is part of who I am. Coping With the Stigma of Tourette's 2010-03-12T16:48:00Z Former colleagues have said the neurobiologist, who is in her 40s, was upset after losing out on a tenured position at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. 2010-02-14T03:34:00Z So it is refreshing to hear how 109 philosophers, neurobiologists, and other scholars answered, "How is the Internet changing the way you think?" 2010-01-08T16:01:00Z |
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