Neuroscientists have discovered that individual neurons are very noisy.
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Patrick Aebischer (born 1954), Swiss neuroscientist and college president
Annette M. Taberner-Miller, Ph.D. (born 1973) is a Cuban American Neuroscientist studying the dynamics of neurotransmitter release in the spinal cord at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
Brett Abrahams, PhD (born March 3, 1973) is a geneticist and neuroscientist involved in the identification and subsequent functional characterization of the autism-related gene CNTNAP2 with Dan Geschwind at UCLA.
Nathaniel A. Buchwald (1924–2006), American neuroscientist, educator and administrator
Recently, doubts have arisen concerning the validity of this critical period hypothesis with regard to visual development, in particular since the time it became known that neuroscientist Susan R. Barry and others have achieved stereopsis as adults, long after the supposed critical period for acquiring this skill.
Endel Tulving (born 1927), Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist
In 1998, Fred H. Gage (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California) and Peter Eriksson (Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden) discovered and announced that the human brain produces new nerve cells in adulthood.
The 208 page hardcover book also includes essays from Richard Metzger, the host of BBC's Disinformation: the Series and neuroscientist Marina Korsakova-Kreyn.
David Ginty (born 1962), American neuroscientist and developmental biologist
Paul Greengard (born 1925), American molecular neuroscientist, shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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.
John Donoghue (neuroscientist), Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University; cofounder of Cyberkinetics
As a series of still photographs pass into view, author Jose Chung describes the life of Juggernaut Onan Goopta, who went to college hoping to become a famous neuroscientist and instead was overcome by dementia and institutionalized.
Joseph V. Brady (1922–2011), behavioral neuroscientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin and author of "This is your brain on music" was presented with recordings of an actual Stradivarius and a recording of a processed violin, and guessed incorrectly as to which was the classic violin.
Daniel Glaser - Dr. Glaser is neuroscientist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.
Ira Black (1941–2006), neuroscientist and stem cell researcher who served as the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey.
An exploration of the Symbolist paintings of Gail Potocki; with more than 100 works represented and discussed, the 208 page hardcover book also includes essays from Richard Metzger, the host of BBC's Disinformation: the Series and neuroscientist Marina Korsakova-Kreyn, and portraits of Jim and Bébé Rose, Joe Coleman, Grant Morrison, and Claudio Carniero of Cirque du Soleil.
Neuroscientist Molly Crockett also disputes Zak's claims, referring to studies that show oxytocin increases gloating, bias at the expense of other groups, and in some cases decreasing cooperation; suggesting oxytocin is as much an "immoral molecule" as 'the moral molecule' Paul Zak claims.
The Institute's visiting professors to date have been the intellectual historian Arif Dirlik (in 2005), the Nobel prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffman (in 2008), and French neurophysiologist Alain Berthoz (in 2009), computer scientist Barbara Grosz (in 2010), and cognitive neuroscientist, Stanislas Dehaene (2011), and microbiologist, Philippe Sansonetti (2011).
Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in 2007.
Regis B. Kelly, Scottish neuroscientist and university administrator
He was a founding member and serves on the Executive Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and leads an ongoing consultancy on biology and politics for the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with anthropologist Lionel Tiger and neuroscientist Michael T. McGuire.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, the neuroscientist known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics
Edward Taub (born 1931) is a behavioral neuroscientist currently based at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
His younger brother was the visual neuroscientist Horace Barlow.
In regards to reverse engineering the brain, neuroscientist David J. Linden writes that, "Kurzweil is conflating biological data collection with biological insight".
He provides unique insights into the nature of his autism, and perhaps autism in general, according to Autism Speaks, the former Cure Autism Now, scientists who studied his case, such as distinguished neuroscientist Dr. Michael Merzenich, and doctors, journalists, and authors at many major media companies such as ABC, CBS, National Geographic, New York Times, Scientific American, PBS, and CNN.
Ryuta Kawashima (川島 隆太), neuroscientist, currently resident professor, the supervisor of Nintendo DS gamesofts; "Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!" and "Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?"
Üner Tan, Turkish neuroscientist and evolutionary biologist
Walter Jackson Freeman III, American biologist, theoretical neuroscientist and philosopher