There is even a vacation photo of a pot-bellied brain scientist jumping into the river.
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Six years ago, Stanford brain scientist Brian Knutson accidentally set neuroscience and economics on a collision course.
Brain scientist Dr Allan Snyder has suggested that everyone may possess such abilities but be unable to access them.
The new gene therapy treatment, dreamed up by Salk Institute brain scientist Dr. Fred "Rusty" Gage, avoids this problem by using a harmless virus, called AAV, to deliver genes for the neurotrophic factor IGF-1 directly to the motor nerves.
In the seemingly infinite galaxy of philanthropy, the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala sparkled brightly on Friday night, not only honoring chess legend Garry Kasparov, brain-mapping scientist Dr. Cori Bargmann and entrepreneur Richard Branson, but with stratospherically smart award presenters like James Watson, best known for his co-discovery of DNA, election predictor Nate Silver and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
"They are not much larger than the dimensions of a neuron in the brain, " said materials scientist John Rogers at the University of Illinois, who helped develop them.
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But a new Kyowa-funded study of 60 healthy women found a monthlong regime of daily doses of citicoline resulted in improved attention and fewer errors on a cognitive test compared with placebo, says co-author Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a scientist at the Brain Institute at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who is a paid consultant to Kyowa.
Anyone who is interested in communications and the brain should spend a little time with Heribert Watzke, food scientist and researcher into what he calls the little or lower brain.
Suhasa Kodandaramaiah of Georgia Tech created robots that can measure electrical potentials and genetic changes in brain cells more efficiently than a human scientist, and started a company to commercialized them.
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Several years ago he read a paper in a scientific journal by a Japanese scientist who had discovered D-serine in key areas of the brain but didn't know why it was there.
Several years ago he read in a scientific journal a paper by a Japanese scientist who had discovered D-serine in key areas of the brain but didn't know why it was there.
Dr James Marshall, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield co-ordinating the project, said simulating a brain was one of the "major challenges" of artificial intelligence.
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