Word: bolshakov
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...able to replace “vision’s long held-dominance over the other senses.” Tolaas’s exhibition explores how the body uses varying physiological states to communicate different moods—focusing on body odor elicited by fear. According to Vadim Bolshakov, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, sweating is a typical “non-specific fear response.” Tolaas wrote in her proposal for the installation that in the West, smell is thought of in “aesthetic terms—pleasant or unpleasant...
...associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—said that the study’s findings could serve as a launching point for research in psychiatric medicine. “Stathmin is a protein that is also found in human beings,” said Bolshakov, who worked on the study. The protein was identified by the same group in an earlier study as playing a key role in the amygdala—a part of the brain that is associated with fear and is important for memory. Stathmin’s apparent role in both...
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