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2 unusual facts about Neuroscience


Pascal Fries

In the same year he became a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and began in 2009 the work as founding director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in collaboration with the Max Planck Society in Frankfurt.

Sarah Wylie

Having lived in Africa and Australia as a child, Wylie graduated college in 2011 with a degree in Neuroscience.


Anna Christina Nobre

In collaboration with Professor Miles Hewstone, Nobre has set up the Oxford Social Neuroscience laboratory, which uses non-invasive imaging approaches to investigate how social factors affect experience and behaviour.

Autoscopy

Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, and Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, have reviewed some of the classical precipitating factors of autoscopie.

Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero

Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero is a 2008 science book by neuroscience professor E. Paul Zehr.

Betty Edwards

Edwards's early work was based in part on her understanding of neuroscience, especially the cerebral hemisphere research which suggested that the two hemispheres of the brain have different functions.

Brain and Creativity Institute

Headed by neuroscientists Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio, the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) is a research unit of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, which aims to "gather new knowledge about the human emotions, decision-making, memory, and communication, from a neurological perspective, and to apply this knowledge to the solution of problems in the biomedical and sociocultural arenas."

Brian Vala Nahed

In college, Dr. Nahed majored in Neuroscience at the University of California in Los Angeles and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, his department's highest graduating honor and named one of the Bruins of the Year.

Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence of Albacete 2006

The first speaker of the conferences was Rodolfo Llinás, who is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine, director of the Neurolab of the NASA and considered as one of the fathers of neuroscience.

Celia Sánchez-Ramos

In June 2006, she founded the spin-off firm, belonging to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid known as Alta Eficacia Tecnología S.L., the aim of which is to market products related to the Alta Eficacia Method, patents and models of use in the fileds of optometry, contactology, biometrics and neuroscience.

Christof Koch

Together with James Bower,Koche founded in 1988 the Methods in Computational Neuroscience summer course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, which remains ongoing.

Corinna E. Lathan

Dr. Lathan received her B.A. in Biopsychology and Mathematics fromSwarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and an S.M. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dale Purves

After several years in clinical medicine as a surgical house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital and as a Peace Corps Physician, he gave up medicine in favor of a career in neuroscience research.

Denis Walter

Walter is a patron for Cystic Fibrosis Australia, an ambassador for the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Make A Wish Foundation (South West Victoria) and Barwon Health and also does work for the Neuroscience Foundation and a number of other charitable and community groups.

Dennis Choi

Choi arrived at Emory University in August 2007, where he currently serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Neurosciences Center and the Neuroscience, Human Nature, and Society Initiative, both of which are under the umbrella of Emory Healthcare.

Drunkorexia

R. Andrew Chambers, MD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychiatric Research and Director, Laboratory for Translational Neuroscience of Dual Diagnosis Disorders notes that many celebrity blog sites report similar patterns of behavior among young actresses such as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, and that the condition could be mimicked within the entertainment industry and contemporary youth culture at large.

Gordon Shepherd

Gordon M. Shepherd (born 1933), Yale University professor of neuroscience and neurobiology

International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences

As Göttingen is regarded as one of the focal points in neuroscience research in Germany, this international graduate school is providing various and diverse research opportunities in the fields of the neuroscience, biochemistry, structural biology and related disciplines.

Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine

Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine is a popular science book published in 2011 by neuroscience professor, martial arts master, and long-time comic-book reader E. Paul Zehr.

James M. Bower

James Mason Bower (born February 17, 1954 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA) is an American neuroscientist and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Numedeon Inc., creator of the Whyville.

Jeffrey Oppenheim

Oppenheim received his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Princeton University in 1984, finishing his thesis under the mentorship of George Armitage Miller, graduating Summa Cum Laude.

John Donoghue

John Donoghue (neuroscientist), Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University; cofounder of Cyberkinetics

Jordi Folch Pi

In 1944, with only 33 years of age, Folch was appointed director of the new Biological Research Laboratory at the McLean Hospital (a division of Massachusetts General Hospital) and assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School to develop a program in Neuroscience.

Levine Science Research Center

Its classrooms are shared by several departments, but the majority of its offices and laboratories are utilized by the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and the departments of Computer Science, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Cell and Molecular Biology.

Maja Matarić

She joined the faculty at Brandeis University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in January 1995, then moved to the University of Southern California in 1997 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science with a courtesy appointment in the Neuroscience Program.

Melvyn A. Goodale

He is Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience.

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

The Institute of Neuroscience and the Drug Dependence Research Institute have their headquarters at the Sant Joan d'Alacant Campus.

Northcutt

Glenn Northcutt, leader in comparative vertebrate neurobiology and evolutionary neuroscience

Oddball paradigm

The P300 wave only occurs if the subject is actively engaged in the task of detecting the targets.

Open-space Learning or OSL

In terms of the suggestion that it promotes a style of teaching and learning that seeks to undermine a Cartesian separation of mind and body, its greatest debt is to work in Neuroscience by academics such as Andy Clark, and to phenomenology of the kind developed by Husserl.

Oscar Gonzalez-Perez

Dr. Oscar Gonzalez-Perez, M.D., Ph.D, is a Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Colima, Mexico, an honorary professor of Neuroscience in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomedicas at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and an invited professor of Neuroscience and Cellular Medicine in the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory of Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation

There are also awards for early career scientists: International Astronomical Union Fellowships, Society for Neuroscience Fellowships, the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award to a young woman geneticist given in cooperation with the Genetics Society of America and the American Society for Human Genetics, and the Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel for scientists there.

Peter Riederer

Before he embraced neuroscience he had completed scientific studies at the Nuclear reactor Center Seibersdorf in Austria.

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as mentioned in the title, Marcel Proust.

Qui tam

Joe Faltaous worked as a Neuroscience Sales Specialist for Eli Lilly for two years before resigning after expressing concerns about Eli Lilly’s practices.

Roboethics

From this standpoint, it can be seen as natural and necessary that robotics drew on several other disciplines, like Logic, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Biology, Physiology, Philosophy, Literature, Natural history, Anthropology, Art, Design.

Statistical parametric mapping

It may also refer to a specific piece of software created by the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (part of University College London) to carry out such analyses.

Sunflower revolution

The event is sponsored by the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Center for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute a part of UC HealthUniversity of Cincinnati.

Temperament

In addition to the initial clinical studies, academic psychologists have developed an interest in the field and researchers such as Bates, Buss & Plomin, Kagan, and Rothbart have generated large bodies of research in the areas of personality, neuroscience, and behavioral genetics.

The Medical Center of Aurora

Specialties for which The Medical Center of Aurora is best known locally and nationally include heart and vascular care, surgical services, women’s services, cancer services, and neurosciences, including spine, brain and stroke care.

Timothy Bliss

Tim V. P. Bliss, Graham L. Collingridge, Richard G. Morris, Long-term potentiation: enhancing neuroscience for 30 years, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-853030-5

Ulla Mitzdorf

In 1983 she habilitated in physiology, and in 1984 in medical psychology and neurobiology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

University College Utrecht

Newton houses the Sciences Department which covers Cognitive Neuroscience, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences.

William Hurlbut

William B. Hurlbut, Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University


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