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Greg P. Gasic, an instructor at HMS and editor of the scientific journal Neuron, to which Hyman has been a contributor, calls the Summers-Hyman relationship “synergistic...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jump Starter | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

Before this technique, the best method of tracking neuron responses were electrodes, which were limited to showing “impulses only in one or a very few cells at a time,” wrote Dr. David H. Hubel, HMS professor of neurobiology. “The power of [this] method is that you can see a large number of cells at once...

Author: By Katherine G. Chan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Method To Track Neurons | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

...allows you to see a complete circuit [of nerve cells] for the first time in its entirety,” said Reid, who is also a professor at HMS. “It gives you an immediate bird’s eye view of what the brain is doing, neuron by neuron...

Author: By Katherine G. Chan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Method To Track Neurons | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

...recording of the waves of electrical activity in the brain--with far more sophisticated imaging and neurological mapping techniques. With the new equipment, scientists are able to take increasingly detailed pictures of the sleeping brain, observing precisely what it is doing while it rests, down to the individual neuron. "In the past year or two, everything seemed to click together," says Dr. Giulio Tononi, a neurobiologist and psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Suddenly we have hypotheses that could explain lots of things. Whether they're right is a different story. But I feel different from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Sleep | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Released last Thursday in the journal Neuron, the article indicates that certain people may have a genetic predisposition toward cocaine addiction, raising important public policy issues and ethical questions about the nature of addiction...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Addicts May Be Predisposed | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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