Word: neurobiologist
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Finally, experts in fetal development argue that at twelve weeks a fetus cannot move "purposefully," as Nathanson asserts, nor can it perceive danger; the cerebral cortex, which coordinates perception and thought, is not yet developed. As for the silent scream, says Johns Hopkins Neurobiologist David Bodian, doctors have no evidence that a twelve-week-old fetus can feel pain, though "there is a possibility of a reflex movement" in response to stimuli like surgical instruments. Hobbins suggests that the dramatic scream may have been a fetal yawn, because "the fetus spends lots of time with its mouth open." Indeed...
...year-old neurobiologist, for example, who chaired the student-faculty committee that drew up the plans for the two-year-old Undergraduate Council. Harvard's first funded student government. And Dowling has had a principal role in administering and setting courses for the Science area of the Core Curriculum...
...Department of Cellular and Development Biology (CDB) has offered tenure to a leading neurobiologist who intends to decide within several months whether to leave his tenured position at Stanford University to come East...
...Foundation, under the guidance of neurobiologist S. Allen Counter, has been rather quiet in its first school year and the Black Student Association this fall is expected to come out with a statement critical of its efforts...
Difficult questions are being asked about the effectiveness of Dr. S. Allen Counter in the performance of his part-time job as Director of the fledgling Harvard Foundation. I would like to point out that Professor Counter is a neurobiologist not a petty bureaucrat. He is also an excellent teacher of science, as few students who attended his lecture last month in Biology 7 a would dispute. It is my belief that Professor Counter's time would be better spent in the classroom and the laboratory, which is where a young scholar belongs...