Word: neurobiologist
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...Kevin Casey. “There was a sense of urgency in that period that...private parties had to come and step in where the federal government had vacated the field.” PREMEDITATED PRIORITIZATION?Researchers quickly found themselves enjoying the support of both Summers and Hyman, a neurobiologist who led the University’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program. Hyman, a reliable proponent for stem cell research to this day, said in 2006 that he took the job of provost with the intention of revamping interdisciplinary research at the University. Among his goals was the centralization...
...keynote speaker, Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, spoke about the importance of sharing knowledge throughout the University’s scientific communities...
...same region that allows us to concentrate, and it starts to diminish in size well before middle age. It also begins to use the brain's fuel, glucose, less efficiently and loses about half the neurotransmitter dopamine it once had. The result of all this, says Amy Arnsten, a neurobiologist at Yale Medical School, is that as we get older, we get "ADHD, but it's attention-deficit hypoactivity--not hyperactivity...
Inside Harvard, the committee most seriously considered two candidates in addition to Faust: Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. Summers had appointed both. When Corporation members scrambled to find a replacement for Summers after his abrupt resignation last year, they passed over Hyman, whom many considered a natural candidate for the job, in favor of Derek C. Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991. The provost had a reputation for being overly talkative about sensitive topics, and some committee members had doubts about his ability to tackle large-scale projects, according...
...actively expressing a particular gene? The atlas provides molecular-level data that tell you. "Even though it's a mouse project, it really is a wonderful resource for human genetics and human biology and for understanding the brain in both the healthy and disease states," says Robert Williams, a neurobiologist at the University of Tennessee...