Word: neuroscientist
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...relatively late in the development of the mammalian brain, billions of these cells must push and shove their way through dense colonies established by earlier migrants. "It's as if the entire population of the East Coast decided to move en masse to the West Coast," marvels Yale University neuroscientist Dr. Pasko Rakic, and marched through Cleveland, Chicago and Denver to get there...
...long and distinguished career as a pioneering neuroscientist and is widely respected as a gifted and passionate teacher," Their said. "The decade he spent at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School provides Joe with a valuable perspective of the University and its affiliated teaching hospitals...
Despite acknowledging that he is not a neuroscientist, Goleman presented a detailed overview of anatomical basis of emotional intelligence in order to support his thesis that emotional intelligence is more deeply ingrained in our consciousness than cognitive intelligence...
...fact that he never blamed his horse for the injury, donated $1 million for the establishment of the Reeve-Irvine Center for spinal-cord research at the University of California at Irvine; the state will match her million. She also established $50,000 prize for the neuroscientist who made the greatest progress in a given year. In February, Reeve did the Larry King Live show, making an explicit appeal for donations for the American Paralysis Association--another considerable success. The following month he took part in the dedication ceremony for a new $18 million rehabilitation unit at the St. Francis...
Since 1990, about 100 paralyzed patients have been given 4-AP in clinical trials, and about one-third of them have regained some function. Keith Hayes, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, who has been involved in the trials, says, "We have seen improvements in sensation and motor function, reduced spasticity and reduced pain, and improvement in bowel, bladder and sexual functions." MS researchers may come up with yet another useful therapy for spinal-cord injuries. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Moses Rodriguez is testing the use of antibodies as catalysts...