• 1983, and since 2012, is senior professor at the Wallenberg Neuroscience Center in Lund. (lu.se)
  • The Wallenberg Neuroscience Center (WNC) was established in 1996 as a joint venture between Lund University and Skåne University Hospital. (lu.se)
  • This discovery had tremendous impact on modern neuroscience research and - in combination with his later work performed at the University of Göteborg - would render him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2000. (lu.se)
  • The advent of optogenetic tools has had a profound impact on modern neuroscience research, revolutionizing our understanding of the brain. (lu.se)
  • These studies show that different aspects of reward functions are processed by different neurons in different brain structures. (nature.com)
  • This article focuses on recent neurophysiological studies in primates that have revealed that neurons in a limited number of brain structures carry specific signals about past and future rewards. (nature.com)
  • 1) NICS influences the excitability of cerebellar neurons and in the connectivity between cerebellar and other brain regions, which henceforth alters the cerebellums motor and cognitive functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • tDCS involves the application of a weak direct electrical current to the scalp which flows through underlying brain tissue and modulates the activity of the neurons within the targeted region. (wikipedia.org)
  • The laboratory will offer hands-on experience in recording signals from single neurons, examining neural structures, and analysis of whole-brain functional brain imaging data. (princeton.edu)
  • Our laboratories use biophysical, electrophysiological, molecular biological and histological methods to determine fundamental molecular mechanisms by which neurotransmitters are released from primary sensory cells ('hair cells') to excite second order neurons carrying information to the brain. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • We apply these same techniques to study inhibitory feedback produced by brain neurons that project to and regulate the sensitivity of the cochlea. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Using electrodes like this one to eavesdrop on the ephemeral conversations of neurons, Winson was testing an idea that had obsessed him for years--the idea that dreaming reflects a biological process by which the brain sifts through new information and incorporates it into its existing memory. (discovermagazine.com)
  • By recording the activity of these rats' neurons, however, Winson has provided the first neurological evidence that information from an animal's waking hours is indeed reprocessed by the dreaming brain. (discovermagazine.com)
  • At birth the brain is estimated to contain over a 100 billion neurons. (encyclopedia.com)
  • As it happens, the consolidation of your memory occurs by replaying the events that occurred on that particular day, allowing neurons to reinforce the link between these two specific areas of the brain. (talkaboutsleep.com)
  • This dramatic increase coincides with the introduction of a range of new neurochemical and pharmacological tools for the study of dopamine neurons and their function in the brain, as well as the identification of the dopamine receptors, their pharmacology, and their role in mediating the antipsychotic action of neuroleptics [12,13]. (lu.se)
  • Using the isotropic fractionator, we estimate number of neurons and glial cells in whole brains and parts thereof. (lu.se)
  • Number of neurons, which is used as a proxy for the information processing capacity of the brain, can help us better understand the evolution of brain. (lu.se)
  • I study the evolution of vertebrate brains with particular interests in the number of neurons in the bird brain. (lu.se)
  • Although the numbers of neurons can vary strikingly between different groups of avians studied so far, current sampling does not allow us to reconstruct the evolution of brain complexity and processing capacity in birds. (lu.se)
  • In his second semester, an eager Anders sat in a lecture hall listening to his soon-to-be mentor, Dr. Bengt Falck, lecture on the newly developed Falck-Hillarp method used to identify and study monoamine-containing neurons in the brain and body. (lu.se)
  • Our work took a different direction from the mainstream of AD research that focused on extracellular β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides with our discovery of the accumulation of Aβ within AD vulnerable neurons of human brains (Gouras et al. (lu.se)
  • Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University of Sussex, will visit Lund University in May to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. (lu.se)
  • The Cushing-Eisenhardt collaboration: founding of the Brain Tumor Registry and Neuropathology Collection. (medscape.com)
  • of Otolaryngology, Neuroscience, Neuropathology, the Wilmer Eye Institute, and the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins, in addition to labs outside the university to increase the impact and clinical relevance of our research. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Also seminal for modern neuroscience was his role in the late 1960s in establishing the use of living brain slices for in vitro studies of synaptic pharmacology and physiology using the lateral olfactory tract as a model system. (sfn.org)
  • And my luck was that I entered brain research at the time, in the late 1960s, when modern neuroscience was born, and in the labora- tory where a new groundbreaking microscopic technique, the Falck-Hillarp monoamine histofluorescence method, had just been developed. (lu.se)
  • Much great brain research has been coming out about the value of meditation and mindfulness. (onbeing.org)
  • Neuroscience can now examine what occurs in the brain when we expand our awareness and foster mindfulness. (naropa.edu)
  • To understand the mechanistic links between incentives and our behavior, we utilize an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, and economics. (researchgate.net)
  • In his book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature , Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker challenges Rousseau's view that humans are naturally good through the lens of modern psychology. (jewishpress.com)
  • These traits, like the darker ones, are also heritable, have underlying brain mechanisms, and have a basis in evolutionary psychology. (jewishpress.com)
  • 3/5 students get the opportunity to train important skills for conduction of empirical studies in cognitive neuroscience, including reporting of the results in accordance with the international norms for publication in the psychology. (lu.se)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (1997) 9 (5): 664-686. (mit.edu)
  • Language-related functions were among the first to be ascribed a specific location in the human brain ( Broca, 1861 ) and have been the subject of intense research for well over a century. (jneurosci.org)
  • This research describes the first steps towards an understanding of how rewards influence behaviour before their receipt and how the brain might use reward information to control learning and goal-directed behaviour. (nature.com)
  • The Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is a branch of the UK Medical Research Council, based in Cambridge, England. (wikipedia.org)
  • The CBSU has close links to clinical neuroscience research in the University of Cambridge Medical School. (wikipedia.org)
  • In June 2001, the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group held a witness seminar to gather information on the unit's history. (wikipedia.org)
  • History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. (wikipedia.org)
  • These experiments opened up new frontiers in brain research and gave rise to much of what we know about hemispheric specialization and integration. (nature.com)
  • The latest developments in split-brain research build on the groundwork laid by those early studies. (nature.com)
  • Gazzaniga, M. S. Split brain research: a personal history. (nature.com)
  • Two Scientists in the Brain Research Laboratory work on a Project, Using Personal Computer with MRI Scans Show Brain Anomalies. (discovery.org)
  • He's studied the brains of meditating Buddhist monks, and now he's using his research with children and adolescents to look at things like ADHD, autism, and kindness. (onbeing.org)
  • In this important retreat/seminar, Joan Halifax Roshi and four renowned scientists who have contributed to this growing field of research, and are each long-term Zazen practitioners, will interactively share with participants their perspectives on what has specifically been learned about Zen practice and the brain, how this research is relevant for practice, and how experienced practitioners can help sharpen the research questions being asked. (typepad.com)
  • [1] [2] Applications of MEG include basic research into perceptual and cognitive brain processes, localizing regions affected by pathology before surgical removal, determining the function of various parts of the brain, and neurofeedback . (wikipedia.org)
  • Complete with current research, Integrating Manual Therapy and Pain Neuroscience uses 12 principles of treatment to show how concepts like hypoalgesia, placebo, neuroplasticity, sensory discrimination, body schema, and therapeutic alliance can powerfully influence the outcome of manual techniques. (optp.com)
  • Well-funded cooperative research initiatives in functional brain imaging are leading to rapid advances that will make it possible in the near future to empirically test the integral model put forward in this chapter yielding more complete understandings of consciousness including NDEs and other kinds of transpersonal or anomalous experiences. (sfu.ca)
  • John's research career is highlighted by a broad range of seminal contributions to neuroscience and by his role in developing the field of behavioral pharmacology. (sfn.org)
  • The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to neuroscience. (berkeley.edu)
  • The Endowment Fund seeks to support innovative research designed to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. (berkeley.edu)
  • In his upcoming lecture, 'Zen and the Brain: Contemplative Practices for a Multi-Tasking World' (February 18, 7pm, Nalanda Events Center) Dr. Kaszniak will share research findings and reflections on how meditation can inform our post-meditation experience in a fragmented and stress-inducing world. (naropa.edu)
  • The coun-try was not a hotbed of sci-en-tif-ic research. (sharpbrains.com)
  • Modern developmental neuroscience research is fundamentally multidisciplinary and includes the extensive use of advanced analytic techniques. (frontiersin.org)
  • The idea is that some of the parts This is interesting because pre- chines did not have much lower of the brain that activate dur- vious research has shown that accuracy. (lu.se)
  • Research on dopaminergic neurotransmission has remained highly dynamic over the years and been extremely important in shaping our understanding of how the brain works in health and disease. (lu.se)
  • In addition, dopamine research has been unique within the neurosciences in the way it has bridged basic science and clinical practice. (lu.se)
  • of the Neuroscience Panel at the European Research Council in Brussels in 2007-2010. (lu.se)
  • Evaluate scientific information in cognitive neuroscience and reflect through a critical approach about modern theories and research findings in the field. (lu.se)
  • PII: 0361-9230(82)90113-7 Brain Research Bulkfin, Vol. 9, pp. xi-xv, 1982. (lu.se)
  • Neurosciences Research Program. (who.int)
  • It was later during his own research endeavors and by pure accident, that Anders became interested in brain regeneration and the possibilities stem cells presented for new treatments for brain diseases. (lu.se)
  • More so, TEs are a rich source of genetic variation, which makes them an intriguing research avenue to investigate humanspecific traits, including their impact on human brain evolution and their relevance in disease. (lu.se)
  • tACS involves the utilisation of an alternating current on the target region which is stated to modulate activity of brain regions through entraining neuronal oscillations and hence enhance cerebellar function. (wikipedia.org)
  • This year's scholars work on an unusually broad range of levels, from the operation and development of fundamental brain circuits to the way that neuronal populations determine how we perceive, decide, remember, and act. (berkeley.edu)
  • Studies into neuronal plasticity were performed in the nineteenth century, when the French biologist Flourens concluded that it was impossible to localize brain functions (Kolb & Whishaw, 1989). (encyclopedia.com)
  • From there, it will use a neuronal decoder to determine the brain activity of occurring events. (talkaboutsleep.com)
  • The great variety of brain cell types is a fundamental element for neuronal circuits. (bvsalud.org)
  • Due to the high heterogeneity of neuronal cells, until recently, it was not possible to group brain cell types at high resolution. (bvsalud.org)
  • We seek to combine the isotropic fractionator that allows estimation of neuronal and glial cell numbers and distributions across hundreds of species with whole-brain labeling, clearing and automated light microscopy methods that allow quantitative whole-brain mapping of cell type distributions. (lu.se)
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) was used to identify candidate language processing areas in the intact human brain. (jneurosci.org)
  • Functional maps of the entire brain were obtained from 30 right-handed subjects. (jneurosci.org)
  • A central challenge for neuroscience lies in relating inter-individual variability to the functional properties of specific brain regions. (researchgate.net)
  • Magnetoencephalography ( MEG ) is a functional neuroimaging technique for mapping brain activity by recording magnetic fields produced by electrical currents occurring naturally in the brain , using very sensitive magnetometers . (wikipedia.org)
  • To test this, the authors overlaid these lesion locations on a map of the brain known as the connectome -a structural map of region to region connectivity derived from functional MRI data. (scientificamerican.com)
  • This happens on the level of micro-anatomy (brain synapses), of functional networks, on the brain as a whole and on the level of the individual and even beyond individuals. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Neurobiologists have been "playing" with animals like Meccanos: displacing legs, ears and eyes, cutting out parts of the brain and looking at the functional effects. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Two main paradigms in cognitive neuroscience - structural and functional - are proposed as a framework to interpret the current tendency of change. (bvsalud.org)
  • The functional effect was correlated to a recovery of dopamine, but not noradrenaline, content in the brain, suggesting that depletion of dopamine, rather than noradrenaline or serotonin, was the cause of the akinetic state in reserpine-treated animals. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, important methods to study cognitive functions and mental processes (e.g. response times, accuracy) and to study the activity of the brain and functional anatomy (e.g. lesion and patient data, brain imaging methods) are described. (lu.se)
  • Posture is crucial to normal function, but little is known about how the brain successfully routes sensory signals about orientation, movement and gravity through the spinal cord to keep the body "right side up. (berkeley.edu)
  • The module provides students with basic knowledge of neuroanatomy, brain development and change, cellular function and communication, and basic brain functions, such as sensory processing, perception, motor function and motivation. (lu.se)
  • Along his scientific run he has passed several milestones, the most recent being a jubilee honorary doctorate awarded by Lund University in celebration of his decades of contributions to neuroscience. (lu.se)
  • Split-brain methodology, on its own and in conjunction with neuroimaging, has yielded insights into the remarkable regional specificity of the corpus callosum as well as into the integrative role of the callosum in the perception of causality and in our perception of an integrated sense of self. (nature.com)
  • This lecture and laboratory course will acquaint non-biology majors with the theory and practice of modern molecular biology, focusing on topics of current interest to society. (princeton.edu)
  • Lectures will give an overview at levels ranging from molecular signaling to cognitive science with a focus on the neuroscience of everyday life, from the general (love, memory, and personality) to the particular (jet lag, autism, and weight loss). (princeton.edu)
  • as information to help retreat participants appreciate how the tools and methods of modern neuroscience can contribute to our understanding of the transformative processes of Zen practice. (typepad.com)
  • These analyses typically employ computationally demanding methods, inclusive of advanced techniques, such as machine learning, combined with animal models as well as imaging of human patient populations, to further our understanding of brain development. (frontiersin.org)
  • Advanced methods for quantitatively analyzing brain development are also available, including automated software for extracting biomarkers of potential interest. (frontiersin.org)
  • The authors of a new study published in Brain use the disparate locations of lesions to their advantage-in this case to better understand the neuroanatomy of parkinsonism. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Michael R. Egnor, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, has served as the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and award-winning brain surgeon. (discovery.org)
  • Larry W. Swanson is Senior Member of the Salk Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (mit.edu)
  • Edward Chang, MD, PhD, as I predicted, evolved into an internationally distinguished brain surgeon and is now professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). (medscape.com)
  • Although fMRI provides indirect measures of neural activity, the advent of fMRI has allowed for a) the corroboration of significant animal findings in the human brain and b) the expansion of models to include more common human attribu. (researchgate.net)
  • Challenges posed by efforts to define the NDE, claims of anomalous experiences associated with NDEs, the problem of "timing" of NDEs with respect to brain function, recent findings from neuroscience are reviewed, along with emerging evidence for quantum models of consciousness that may help elucidate the nature of NDEs. (sfu.ca)
  • However, these findings were inconsistent, located in different parts of the brain by different researchers. (madinamerica.com)
  • Overall, our findings highlight the importance of TEs as regulatory agents and their dynamic activity during development, adult life, and disease in the human brain. (lu.se)
  • In this seminal book, Cajal summarized for a broad audience the modem cellular view of brain organization. (mit.edu)
  • The discovery of dopamine as a neurotransmitter in the brain was one of the seminal events in the development of modern neuroscience. (lu.se)
  • Neurosurgery or neurological surgery , known in common parlance as brain surgery , is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain , spinal cord and peripheral nervous system . (wikipedia.org)
  • In his earliest years at Chicago, he laid the foundation for decades of investigations by seeking to explain how brain neurotransmitters governed behavior and behavioral responses to drugs. (sfn.org)
  • He was among the first to recognize a relationship between brain lesions that destroyed dopamine fibers and deficits in feeding and other motivated behaviors. (sfn.org)
  • Six neuroscientists have been selected to receive the 2017 McKnight Scholar Awards, including Berkeley Neuroscience faculty Stephen Brohawn and Michael Yartsev. (berkeley.edu)
  • The NSPN 2400 Cohort: a developmental sample supporting the Wellcome Trust NeuroScience in Psychiatry Network. (lu.se)
  • Clinical neurologist and neuroscientist James Austin, M.D. will provide an overview of brain structure and physiology with high theoretical relevance to understanding many of the phenomena of Zen practice. (typepad.com)
  • This can be applied in a clinical setting to find locations of abnormalities as well as in an experimental setting to simply measure brain activity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Across disciplines, LU neuroscientists share the same goals: to make key discoveries about brain function, to train the next generation of scientists, and to translate discoveries from the laboratory towards clinical practice. (lu.se)
  • Lund University neuroscientists are at the forefront of one of the greatest challenges of our time - trying to understand how the brain works. (lu.se)
  • In the beginning of May, he visits Lund University and Neuroscience Day to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. (lu.se)
  • In the ensuing decades, to study the brain was to study lesions. (scientificamerican.com)
  • One might think that modern neuroscience, with its immense toolkit of experimental techniques, no longer needs lesions like Gage's to parse the brain's inner workings. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Broca and his contemporaries synthesized a theory of the brain from lesions: that the brain is segmented. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Lesions seemingly all over the brain cause parkinsonism and other conditions. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The authors hypothesized that the parkinsonism-causing lesions, despite occurring in disparate brain structures, disrupt common connectivity networks in the brain. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Each of the 29 lesions sat within several different networks, which is to be expected as the brain is a rich tangle of connectivity. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Brain white matter lesions are associated with reduced hypothalamic volume and cranial radiotherapy in childhood onset craniopharyngioma. (lu.se)
  • Modern neuroscience uses a dizzying diversity of tools and model organisms to help understand fundamental principles of brain function. (berkeley.edu)
  • Learn the key principles of finance alongside modern analytics concepts. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Stroke induces a loss in neurovascular coupling and an increase in reactive astrogliosis while producing abnormal conditions of excitability and plasticity in brain regions surrounding the infarct, which underlies the lasting disabilities observed in stroke patients. (mdpi.com)
  • The plasticity of the brain is the basis of cognitive modifiability, which is highly dependent on the amount and quality of interactions with the human environment-ecology-of the individual. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This is called brain plasticity. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the same era, a brilliant young student showed up in my neuroscience lab motivated to learn more about the brain and its plasticity. (medscape.com)
  • In parallel, Chang's team is further training patients to deploy inherent brain plasticity to improve the accuracy and speed of their speech production, facial expressions, and emotion-modulated voicing still further. (medscape.com)
  • This clear, direct, and accurate translation provides an excellent introduction to Cajal's work, making accessible for the first time the ideas that led Cajal to favor the neuron doctrine that revolutionized neuroscience and won for him the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1906. (mit.edu)
  • By recording from densely distributed locations across the surfaces of the cortical region that controls speech production and related facial expression, they can analytically define what the patient is trying to say, even while the disconnected outputs of the patient's brain hit a dead end. (medscape.com)
  • The mindful brain : cortical organization and the group-selective theory of higher brain function / Gerald M. Edelman, Vernon B. Mountcastle. (who.int)
  • Near-death experiences (NDE) raise important questions about the nature of human consciousness, the relationship between brain function and consciousness, the perceptual information that is available to consciousness in moments before death, the role of physical and biological mechanisms associated with altered states of consciousness, and relationships between consciousness, space-time and phenomenal reality. (sfu.ca)
  • Our combined expertise as a cognitive behavioral psychologist (Jeff) and a cognitive neuroscientist (Mark) places us in a unique position to explain how the cognitive mechanisms of the human brain are associated with success. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • The evidence from neuroscience is that we have underlying brain mechanisms that are associated with aggression. (jewishpress.com)
  • We show that human and chimpanzee cells differentiate in a similar man¬ner and that the difference in interspecies protein abundance is higher than transcript-level differences, suggesting that post-transcriptional mechanisms play a role in the difference between human and chim¬panzee brain development. (lu.se)
  • Taken together, our results suggest that post-transcriptional mechanisms play an important role in the brain both during development and in the adult brain. (lu.se)
  • Popular and scientific interest in the relationships between Buddhism and neuroscience has dramatically increased, accompanied by the publication of both theoretical proposals and new laboratory investigations relating Buddhist practice to the brain. (typepad.com)
  • For the first time, the researchers can now link the increased susceptibility to micro-stress to a reflex-like signal in the brain. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • During this time, researchers once again recorded their brain activity. (talkaboutsleep.com)
  • The common spa- brain-computer interface (BCI) to considerfeature extraction tial patterns (CSP) algorithm researchers, since we are looking and classication. (lu.se)
  • That's exactly what Davi Johnson Thornton explores in Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Popular Media - a fascinating account of the rhetoric and sociology of cognitive science, exploring our culture's obsession with the brain and how we have elevated the vital organ into cultish status, mythologizing its functions and romanticizing the promise of its scientific study. (themarginalian.org)
  • One of the benefits of our global world is that the investigations of modern science are meeting the wisdom of ancient traditions. (naropa.edu)
  • One major goal of modern neuroscience is to decipher the various types of cellular composition and characterize their properties. (bvsalud.org)
  • Indeed, the brain can evaluate all of these memories in order to retain only the most useful ones. (talkaboutsleep.com)
  • As analytic techniques for studying the brain continue to improve in terms of image acquisition, post processing analyses, animal models and machine learning, we expect our ability to evaluate and monitor brain development to continue to improve. (frontiersin.org)
  • He is coordinating the neurogenetic center of Lille (Spinocerebellar ataxia, spastic paraplegia, Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation). (lu.se)
  • Knowledge about brain functioning and structure has been growing enormously during the past five decades, thanks to increasingly sophisticated brain imaging techniques. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Brain 123 , 1293-1326 (2000). (nature.com)
  • 2000). Following this work, we were the 1st group to report on the physical association between altered AD-linked Aβ peptides and synapses in the brain, showing that Aβ preferentially accumulates and associates with subcellular pathology within distal neurites and synapses in AD (Takahashi et al. (lu.se)
  • In this seminar series, we read both classic and modern papers on brain evolution and development in a variety of animals. (ucdavis.edu)
  • The development of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the 1980s opened new possibilities for the application NICS, and brain imaging techniques developed in the latter half of the 20th century later revealed the effects of cerebellum stimulation on higher cognitive functions such as language, emotion and attention. (wikipedia.org)
  • Modern personal development, entwined with ancient spirituality. (typepad.com)
  • At the Medical College of Pennsylvania, he established a NIDA program project that used Pavlovian conditioning to quantify the negative impact of prenatal exposure to cocaine on brain development, and his laboratory's support from NIMH ran uninterrupted for nearly 50 years. (sfn.org)
  • Subject matter ranges from morphology and function of shark eyes to tool use in human and non-human primates, to the effect of daily interaction with machines on brain development. (ucdavis.edu)
  • revealed correlations between patient depression and the thickness of the right medial orbitofrontal cortex, and the machine learning analysis reported on a variety of brain regions with potentially abnormal development. (frontiersin.org)
  • We found that the regulation of TE transcription during brain development is essential for the establishment of long-term transcriptional repression carried to adulthood (Paper I and IV). (lu.se)
  • Neuroscience focusing on human development and disease has long been hampered due to ethical rea¬sons, low tissue availability, and low translatability from animal models. (lu.se)
  • NICS is a neural modulation technique, showing capability to rehabilitate the brain functions of patients undergoing a plethora of neurological or psychiatric diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Science journalist Vance takes an inspired journey into the profound and often unnoticed powers of our brains. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The case is likely the earliest-and most famous-of using a "lesion" to link a damaged brain region to its function. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Lesion studies lend a lawyerly logic to the brain: if region X is destroyed and function Y no longer occurs, then region X must control function Y. (scientificamerican.com)
  • No single brain region can really control any function. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Thus, modern neuroscience views individual lesion cases as imperfect, uncontrolled experiments of nature that don't necessarily speak to how a network controls a brain function. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Intrinsic brain activity in altered states of consciousness: how conscious is the default mode of brain function? (sfu.ca)
  • Brains that perform successfully really do "light up" differently and work more efficiently, and Mark has investigated just how the structure and function of brains are altered as a result of how their owners use them. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • It is a miracle that the brain can function as a cooperative whole, starting off with only two cells (Eccles & Robinson, 1985). (encyclopedia.com)
  • Through theoretical studies and practical exercises, the course aims to convey knowledge about the structure and function of the brain and key areas of modern cognitive neuroscience, such as attention, memory, language, and cognitive control, as well as emotions and social interaction. (lu.se)
  • They discuss the brain, Descartes, and the theological implications of the various philosophies of mind. (discovery.org)
  • This more dynamic perspective on brain structure and functioning has far-reaching implications for rehabilitation, education and assessment, which currently are still largely based on rather static models. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Much of the work in cognitive neuroscience is shifting from a focus on single brain regions to a focus on the connectivity between multiple brain regions. (researchgate.net)
  • She found that over 60 per-cent of pro-fes-sion-al schools of psy-chol-o-gy and master's lev-el social work pro-grams did not include any super-vised train-ing for any sci-en-tif-i-cal-ly based ther-a-py … In con-trast to evi-dence-based care, I call this "emi-nence-based care. (sharpbrains.com)
  • I am a PhD student in zoology at Charles University and I focus on evolution of brain complexity and processing capacity in different vertebrate lineages. (lu.se)
  • Dr. Jazayeri studies how the brain keeps track of time by investigating the neural dynamics that allow us to anticipate, measure, and reproduce time intervals. (berkeley.edu)
  • DeepTumor: Framework for Brain MR Image Classification, Segmentation and Tumor Detection. (cdc.gov)
  • The human brain. (mit.edu)
  • Using a multi-omics approach, we demonstrate that TEs introduce a layer of transcriptome complexity to the human brain. (lu.se)
  • The CBSU is a centre for cognitive neuroscience, with a mission to improve human health by understanding and enhancing cognition and behaviour in health, disease and disorder. (wikipedia.org)
  • The crude information representing language sounds that cochlear implants deliver to the brain through stimulation of surviving auditory nerve fibers is sufficient for the remarkable plastic machinery of our brains to ultimately reinterpret it as normal-sounding speech. (medscape.com)
  • His books, Zen and the Brain , and Zen-Brain Reflections , have been an extraordinarily rich source of hypotheses for neuroscientists who study long-term meditators. (typepad.com)
  • This book, written by four renowned physical therapists and pain neuroscientists, provides techniques that combine manual therapy and pain neuroscience to help practitioners meet the many challenges modern therapists face by treating the body AND the brain. (optp.com)
  • This breakthrough has significantly advanced our knowledge of various physiological and pathophysiological processes in the brain. (lu.se)
  • As you shall see once you dive into the upcoming chapters, Resilience and Motivation are two of the critical abilities for which Winner's Brains are wired. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • Many have endured brain injuries that have physically destroyed speech production abilities in their brains. (medscape.com)
  • Our knowledge of the brain gathered pace during the period between Parkinson's "shaking palsy" and Cushing's implementation of groundbreaking neurosurgical techniques-with nosologic, anatomical, surgical, and neurologic advances that reflected the ebullience of the scientific arena. (medscape.com)
  • Certain NDE features are probably explainable by neuroscience and take place in 4-dimensional space-time while other NDE features such as confirmed cases of veridical perception and other so-called "anomalous" experiences may be consistent with postulated non-local characteristics of consciousness mediated by quantum-like processes or other non-classical processes (Kafatos et al. (sfu.ca)
  • Only a broader phylogeny sampling may deepen our understanding of brain evolution and related processes, and not only in birds. (lu.se)