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The Spectrum editorial team founded The Transmitter to expand the publication's neuroscience coverage beyond the autism field; autism stories are covered on The Transmitter within a dedicated Spectrum vertical. [6] Like its predecessor, The Transmitter is funded by the Simons Foundation but maintains editorial independence.
It was like a lightbulb flipping on, she said. The Flathead High School graduate had harbored an interest in neuroscience for years, beginning with a car wreck on Lookout Pass in 1997 that left ...
The BRAIN Initiative reflects a number of influences, stemming back over a decade. Some of these include: planning meetings at the National Institutes of Health that led to the NIH's Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; [9] workshops at the National Science Foundation (NSF) on cognition, neuroscience, and convergent science, including a 2006 report on "Grand Challenges of Mind and Brain"; [10 ...
Liqun Luo (Chinese: 骆利群; born January 1966) is a neuroscientist in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, where he is the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, [1] and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. [2]
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s.
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. [1] [2] [3] It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developmental biology, cytology, psychology, physics, computer science, chemistry, medicine, statistics, and mathematical modeling to understand ...
David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American neuroscientist, author, and science communicator.He teaches neuroscience at Stanford University [1] and is CEO and co-founder of Neosensory, a company that develops devices for sensory substitution. [2]
Mary Elizabeth Hatten is the Frederick P. Rose Professor of neuroscience at the Rockefeller University, where she became the first female full professor in 1992.She studies the manner in which neurons migrate in the brain, which has implications for many neurological diseases, as well as cancer.