Word: salk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feel a closer connection with the larger Harvard community," said Jill L. Salk, a staff assistant with the Afro-American studies department...
...Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, as the proverbial carrot, a reward the brain doles out to networks of neurons for making survival-enhancing choices. And while the details of how this system works are not yet understood, Montague and his colleagues at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, and M.I.T. have proposed a model that seems quite plausible. Each time the outcome of an action is better than expected, they predicted, dopamine-releasing neurons should increase the rate at which they fire. When an outcome is worse, they should decrease...
...time, I was a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in San Diego. I was deeply immersed in questions of brain organization and development. And I was gay. So it wasn't a big stretch to put these two parts of my life together: to ask whether this particular aspect of human diversity, so central to my own sense of identity and my place in society, could be understood in terms of neurons, synapses and genes...
Einstein, King, Jefferson, Salk, Chopin--go ahead, clone them all. Chances are that at least three would be placed in day care at six weeks of age, given mind-numbing doses of television and videos from toddlerhood through adolescence and educated in dumbed-down public schools with expectations and outcomes far lower than those of a few generations past. Our biological gestation period may be only nine months, but our spiritual, emotional and intellectual development lasts a lifetime. TOM KOWITZ Portland, Oregon...
...tinkerer as a boy. Watson, a Chicago native, won his degrees in zoology. In 1953 both were researchers at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, where they identified the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecular substance that makes possible the transmission of inherited characteristics. In 1976 Crick joined the Salk Institute and geared his energies toward exploring the workings of the brain, including short- and long-term memory and the phenomenon of dreams. Watson's interest in genes has not diminished. The former Harvard professor continues to pursue genetic research as the president of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...