Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
What happens when two brilliant neuroscientists from Sweden and Canada decide to form a partnership that lasts for two decades and remains obsessed on a single line of research: the brain's ability to see? The answer: A 1981 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for groundbreaking research that...Study shows faces are processed like words
...uisa Martelli, Najib Majaj, and Denis Pelli, three neuroscientists from New York University, conducted a study that finds individuals use letters to recognize words and facial features to recognize faces. To reach this finding, experiments were performed in which observers were asked to focus on a black dot, to th...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...ce and neurology. In the past four years Columbia neuroscientists have won two Nobel prizes. There is also a strong...rate more research funding than any other group of neuroscientists in the country. Given the strengths of the institution and its people, it was evident that Columbia...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
... the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology and neuroscientists from the University of Rochester. Sophisticated tests that measure how well the brain processes information that the ear detects are helping scientists sort out the findings. Normally the brain does a masterful job of filtering, sorting, and making...UCLA neuroscientists pinpoint new function for mirror neurons
...ions is paved with mirror neurons. A study by UCLA neuroscientists featuring functional magnetic resonance imaging and a well-stocked tea service suggests for the first time that mirror neurons help people understand the intentions of others -- a key component to social interaction. Reporting Feb. 22 in the online e...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
...l honored to be included among other distinguished neuroscientists who have also received the award, especially my friend and colleague Vernon Mountcastle." Snyder was born in 1938 in Washington, D.C., where he was also educated. In 1955, he entered Georgetown in a premedical program. After being admitted to Georget...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...pair Unit. Professor Raisman was one of the first neuroscientists whose work in stem cell research has raised the real possibility that spinal cord injuries, long considered incurable, could be repaired. The work of the team holds out significant hope that spinal cord patients will eventually be able to regain much...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
...memory form because you make more protein, as most neuroscientists believe, or because you change the shape of existing proteins, which are known to be strategically located to effect change within milliseconds of activation? Part of the answer to this question lies in the fact that there are critical weaknesses ...Marine snail study gives insights into human brain
What can cellular neuroscientists learn about the human brain from studying a marine snail? Much more than one might suspect. "On a cell biological level, the mechanisms of learning and memory are identical, as far as we can tell," said David Glanzman, a UCLA professor of physiologic...USF neuroscientists awarded $1.1 million NIH grant to improve Alzheimer's vaccine
...-- University of South Florida College of Medicine neuroscientists have been awarded a $1.1 million federal grant to improve the safety and effectiveness of an Alzheimer's vaccine in a mouse model. "This approach shifts the focus from treating symptoms of Alzheimer's disease to treatments that slow down the disease...New brain cells develop during alcohol abstinence, UNC study shows
...e able to stop drinking," said Crews. For decades, neuroscientists believed the number of new cells, or neurons, in the adult brain was fixed early in life. Adaptive processes such as learning, memory and mood were thought tied to changes in synapses, connections between neurons. More recently, studies have shown th...The brain science behind 'A beautiful mind'
...icle in today's issue of the journal Neuron , two neuroscientists Paul Glimcher of New York University and Michael Dorris, a former NYU colleague currently at Queens University, Canada offer evidence for the neurological basis for the theories of John Nash, the Nobel-winning economist who pioneered game theory. T...Carnegie Mellon University neurobiologist Justin Crowley receives Searle Scholar Award
...gth and dynamism of the young interactive group of neuroscientists we've recruited into our department," added Elizabeth Jones, professor and head of Biological Sciences at the Mellon College of Science. To monitor the dynamic structural changes neurons undergo to form connections with surrounding neurons, Crowley u...Ethics of boosting brainpower debated by researchers
...panel's discussion was limited to examples of what neuroscientists may be able to detect or treat in the future. Through such meetings, she hopes the medical community will be poised to act responsibly when those future technologies become a reality....Aha! Cognitive neuroscientists reveal creative brain processes
...according to a recent study by a team of cognitive neuroscientists including Mark Jung-Beeman and Edward Bowden of Northwestern University and John Kounios of Drexel University. Their results will appear online April 13 in this month's edition of PLoS Biology, an open-access scientific journal published by the Publi...New findings on nerve cell proteins show promise for reducing disability
...spinal cord and other nervous system injuries, say neuroscientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Our approach is based on a natural mechanism cells have for protecting themselves, called the stress protein response," said Michael Tytell, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and the study's lead researcher....Study supports new theory for nicotine's protective effect against neurodegenerative disorders
...ve effects continue to be debated. Now a team of neuroscientists at the University of South Florida College of Medicine presents new evidence of an anti-inflammatory mechanism in the brain by which nicotine may protect against nerve cell death. Their study was published today in the Journal of Neurochemistry. I...Patients recovering from depression with talk therapy show a 'distinct' pattern of brain changes
Toronto, CANADA -- An imaging study by neuroscientists in Canada has found that patients who recover from depression with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) show a pattern of brain changes that is distinct from patients who recover with drug therapy. It's an important finding because it shows -- for the ...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
..."Music touches almost every cognitive ability that neuroscientists are interested in -- not only the obvious auditory and motor systems involved in perceiving and playing music, but also multisensory interactions, memory, learning, attention, planning, creativity and emotion," says Robert Zatorre, PhD, of the Montre...... information from other senses. "For a long time, neuroscientists have thought of the brain as having areas for vision, areas for hearing and areas for touch. Now, we're starting to learn that the areas talk to one another and if one area is doing poorly, the others seem to have the ability to substitute or help." ...