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	Society for Neuroscience \| Neuroscientists / Teacher Partners - Frequently Asked Questions
		It is best for teachers and neuroscientists to communicate before the presentation to confirm the content of a presentation.
		Some neuroscientists have been giving presentations to K-12 students for many years; other neuroscientists are just starting their outreach programs.
		Society for Neuroscience members are invited to attend several educational sessions at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
	www.sfn.org /index.cfm?pagename=neuroscientistTeacherPartners_faq (498 words)

	Neuroscientists snub Dalai Lama - www.phayul.com
		Yet the neuroscientists who have signed the petition say that there are several problems with this research.
		And in their laboratories, some investigators who plan to attend the neuroscience meetings are trying to find the neural traces of consciousness itself, a notoriously disorienting quest that has led more than one enterprising scientist into a philosophical fog.
		Neuroscientists around the world have been debating the event intensely, and Dr. Carol Barnes, president of the neuroscience society, says she will not cancel the talk or change the schedule.
	phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=10986&article=Neuroscientists+snub+... (1344 words)

	The Scientist : Neuroscience Is A Booming Field--For Neuroscientists With Jobs, That Is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The most significant of these factors is the sharpness with which the supply of neuroscientists has increased: The Society for Neuroscience reports that its membership has grown in the past five years from 11,690 in 1987 to 20,415 in 1992.
		This expansion is being fueled not only by the normal growth of young companies, but also by the unprecedented number of promising compounds these neuroscience companies are working on, according to analysts in the biotechnology research division of Merrill Lynch and Co. in New York.
		Until some of these issues are resolved, neuroscientists counsel their job-seeking colleagues to be patient.
	www.the-scientist.com /article/display/16270 (1478 words)

	the scientific study of 'self'
		Across the country, at the University of California in San Diego, other neuroscientists are studying why religious experiences seem to accompany epileptic seizures in some patients.
		At the heart of the critique of the new brain research is what one theologian at St. Louis University called the "nothing-butism" of some scientists – the notion that all phenomena could be understood by reducing them to basic units that could be measured.
		"Neuroscientists are taking the viewpoints of physicists of the last century that everything is matter," said Mathew, the Duke psychiatrist.
	home.att.net /~meditation/self.html (1957 words)

	Plan for Dalai Lama lecture angers neuroscientists \| Life \| Guardian Unlimited
		Jianguo Gu, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida who has helped to organise a petition against the Dalai Lama's lecture, said: "I don't think it's appropriate to have a prominent religious leader at a scientific event.
		Over the past decade he has encouraged western neuroscientists to study the effects of Buddhist meditation, originally through meetings at his home and more recently by attending conferences at major US universities.
		Trained meditators claim to be able to hold their attention on a single object for hours at a time without distraction, or to shift attention as many as 17 times in the time it takes to snap your fingers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/science/story/0,12996,1536643,00.html (695 words)

	Neuroscientists to Explain the Brain
		The programs, scheduled for March 18 and 20, feature local members of the Society for Neuroscience who are participating in a nationwide public awareness campaign to promote an understanding of the personal and public benefits of brain research.
		Neuroscientists have learned more about the brain and nervous system in the past decade than they have in the previous century.
		At the Health Department's Wadsworth Center Laboratories, neuroscientists are studying the genetic basis of neurological disorders, the effects of drugs of abuse on the developing nervous system, communication channels for the severely disabled, mechanisms of repair for brain and spinal cord damage, and fundamental processes that occur across all brain functions.
	www.health.state.ny.us /press/releases/1997/brainwk1.htm (446 words)

	Exploring News & Features - Vanderbilt neuroscientists identify "oops center" in the brain
		Neuroscientists at Vanderbilt University have come up with an answer.
		They have shown that a set of neurons in a specific region of the brain reacts when you realize that you have made a mistake.
		The research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
	exploration.vanderbilt.edu /news/news_oopscenter.htm (1128 words)

	SOCIETY OF NEUROSCIENTISTS OF AFRICA
		The decision taken at the meeting included among others (a) to revive Neuroscience Society of Nigeria activities, (b) compile a directory of the Nigerian neuroscientists, (c) revive the constitution of the meeting, (d) to organize the 1996 meeting at Abuja and (e) update Neurosicence Society of Nigeria status with SONA.
		With the invaluable help of these friends and colleagues, who are the guest editors of this special issue, we have selected from the abstracts submitted to the SONA Congress, articles focusing on African neurobiological models and African diseases.
		Finally, I also wish that this issue will encourage African neuroscientists not only to exploit the uniqueness of their environment, but also to impose to the international neuroscience community their priorities in terms of scientific communication, collaboration and interest on African neurobiological models and neurological disorders.
	members.tripod.com /SONA_home/SOCIETYOFNEUROSCIENTISTSOFAFRICA.html (3334 words)

	Various bits about neuroscience and neuroscientists
		Here is a review by four leading neuroscientists of the state of neuroscience in 2000 (Neural Science: A Century of Progress and the Mysteries that Remain, Albright, Jessell, Kandel, and Posner, Cell, Vol.
		This talk is a good example of a neuroscientist confusing the rest of the public about the precision of connectivity in the brain, even though they know better.
		Only by taking these systems apart in the brain have neuroscientists been able to figure out that these are different kinds of memory, rather than one memory with multiple forms of expression.
	human-brain.org /neuropages.html (3868 words)

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		In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.
		The team is headed by neuroscientist Jean Decety of France's Institut de la Sant?t de la Recherche M?cale and a visiting professor at the University of Washington's Center for Mind, Brain & Learning, and developmental psychologist Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of the center.
		CMBL is an interdisciplinary research center where behavioral scientists and neuroscientists are collaborating to study the links between behavior and the brain.
	www.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=3444 (1156 words)

	No suffering in dialogue between Dalai Lama, neuroscientists
		That proposal came at a medical school panel on Nov. 5 at Memorial Auditorium from a neuroscientist who had just heard the Dalai Lama's critique of her imaging study.
		While her suggestion was somewhat tongue in cheek, she was dead serious in her admission that she might have conducted her research differently if she had spoken with him first.
		It was but one of many shared insights in an all-day discussion that featured the Dalai Lama and a panel of 15 neuroscientists, psychologists and Buddhist scholars.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/november9/med-dalai-110905.html (925 words)

	Differences In Brain Function Found For Attention Deficit Disorder
		The images show that Ritalin, the most common drug for treating ADD, increased the activity in the stratium (the region highlighted in green in the figures) for the boy with attention deficit disorder but decreased the activity in the same brain region for the boy who does not have the disorder.
		Stanford neuroscientists have found a clear difference in brain functioning between boys who have attention deficit disorder [ADD] and those who do not, a step that could lead to better diagnosis of the most common developmental disorder of childhood.
		The findings have drawn considerable attention from neuroscientists because "ADD is so widespread, so controversial and confusing, and these are among the few clear findings in that field," said Gabrieli, who heads the brain imaging laboratory where the research was done.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-11/SU-DIBF-231198.php (1171 words)

	Scientific American: Neuroscientists Probe Psychedelic Psilocybin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now a new, rigorous, double-blind study has reopened the doors of scientific investigation, reporting spiritual effects and long-term impacts from the use of psilocybin.
		Neuroscientist Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues tested the effects of psilocybin--a drug derived from certain mushrooms that appears to mimic the effects of serotonin in the brain--on 36 middle-aged Americans who had never tried psychedelics before.
		These "squares" ranged in age from 24 to 64 and included 14 men and 22 women, the majority of whom were college graduates, successful in their careers and participants in some form of spiritual activity.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00057DC8-20C7-14B4-A0C783414B7F0000 (507 words)

	Neuroscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The methodologies employed by neuroscientists have been enormously expanded, from biochemical and genetic analysis of dynamics of individual nerve cells and their molecular constituents to imaging representations of perceptual and motor tasks in the brain.
		Neuroscience is at the frontier of investigation of the brain and mind.
		The emergence of powerful experimental techniques such as fMRI, electrophysiology and human genetic analysis allows neuroscientists to address abstract questions such as how human cognition and emotion are mapped to specific neural circuitries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neuroscience (2059 words)

	ScienceDaily: Vanderbilt Neuroscientists Identify "Oops Center" In The Brain
		Brain Scientists Offer Insight Into Vision (August 3, 2005) -- A team of neuroscientists report in the July 21 issue of the science journal Neuron how neuron clusters in the brain overlap to communicate such combined visual information as a flower's color, shape...
		Carnegie Mellon Neuroscientist Develops Tool To Image Brain Function At The Cellular Level (July 14, 2004) -- Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Alison Barth has developed the first tool to identify and study individual neurons activated in a living...
		Neuroscientists Discover New Cell Type That May Help Brain Maintain Memories Of Smells (March 19, 2006) -- Neuroscientists have discovered a new cell type in the part of the brain that processes our sense of smell.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2000/12/001214083826.htm (2412 words)

	Questions to Neuroscientists from Educators by Dee Dickinson
		Brain research so far, as previously noted, has most often been used by educators to make a case for what they would like to do or are already doing.
		It is high time for educators to ask neuroscientists for information that can help them to better understand their students and the learning process.
		It would also be helpful if neuroscientists in partnership with teachers could observe firsthand how their the results of their studies affect educational planning and practice.
	www.newhorizons.org /neuro/dickinson_questions.htm (2015 words)

	ScienceDaily: MIT Neuroscientists Describe Brain's 'Checklist'
		Science Daily — Neuroscientists at MIT suspect they've found the brain's system for keeping track of what we do and at least one site in the brain that keeps a sort of checklist.
		Nicotine Causes Selective Degeneration In Brain, UCLA Neuroscientists Report (November 13, 2000) -- Nicotine causes degeneration in a region of the brain that affects emotional control, sexual arousal, REM sleep and seizures, UCLA neuroscientists report in the current issue of the journal...
		UCLA Neuroscientists First To Show That Adult Brains Turn Back Developmental Clock To Repair Damage (July 17, 2002) -- A new study by UCLA neuroscientists shows for the first time that a unique pattern of cellular activity found in early brain development also triggers repairs to damaged adult brains.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2003/09/030905072715.htm (1723 words)

	USC College : College Magazine : Spring 2005 : Neuroscientists
		USC College neuroscientist Larry Swanson may be best known for his anatomic studies of the brain networks that control hunger, thirst, sleep and other basic drives, and how these behaviors are influenced by emotions.
		But, over the past few years, he has turned his eye to a different kind of network, one made up not by neurons but by the scientists and graduate students who study the brain.
		This November, eight graduate students and a number of leading scientists from Mexico, including Larriva and the Institute’s director, Carlos Arámburo, traveled to USC to participate in the 12th annual Provost’s Neuroscience Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by USC and the Institute in Juriquilla.
	www.usc.edu /schools/college/college_magazine/spring_2005/neuroscientists.html (613 words)

	Neuroscientists gather at UWM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this, the "Decade of the Brain," UWM neuroscientists are using several approaches to uncover the rules that govern nervous system development and the mechanisms that underlie a variety of important nervous system functions, including learning, memory, addiction, psychosis, plasticity, and behavioral expression.
		These efforts were highlighted at a meeting of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Society for Neurosciences held April 17 at the Golda Meir Library.
		Joining UWM neuroscientists in the departments of anthropology, biological sciences, and chemistry were neuroscientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin, VA Medical Center, and Marquette University.
	www.uwm.edu /News/report/old/june96/8827.html (123 words)

	Neuroscientists Create BrainGate Chip
		According to a CNN article, "A team of neuroscientists have successfully implanted a chip into the brain of a quadriplegic man, allowing him to control a computer."
		Such a technological accomplishment is the result of many years of hard work and study of neuroscientists, and biomedical and electrical engineers.
		The article states that the tiny BrainGate chip was inserted into a 25 year old man's brain back in June which has sense allowed the quadriplegic to check email and play computer games simply using thoughts.
	www.absoluteinsight.net /1789 (294 words)

	Neuroscientists Identify How Trauma Triggers Long-lasting Memories In The Brain ...
		Neuroscientists Identify How Trauma Triggers Long-lasting Memories In The Brain...
		A research team led by UC Irvine neuroscientists has identified how the brain processes and stores emotional experiences as long-term memories.
		The research, performed on rats, could help neuroscientists better understand why emotionally arousing events are remembered over longer periods than emotionally neutral events, and may ultimately find application in treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
	goldbamboo.com /news-a144883.html (181 words)

	NPR : Science Explores Meditation's Effect on the Brain
		In recent years, a group of neuroscientists has begun investigating the practice, dubbed "mindfulness." As NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, they are exploring the hypothesis that meditation can actually change the way the brain works.
		The neuroscientists hypothesize that regular meditation actually alters the way the brain is wired, and that these changes could be at the heart of claims that meditation can improve health and well-being.
		But the rigors of the scientific method might never have been applied to studying the practice of meditation if it weren't for a vocal population of scientist-meditators.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4770779 (689 words)

	CALL TO NEUROSCIENTISTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Neuroscientists, like other scientists in general, are often caught up too much in the details of their work to discern the forest from the trees they study.
		That being the case, issuing a call to all neuroscientists is warranted so that they may become aware of impending neurotechnologies that are looming on the horizon, and so that some may perhaps contribute to this developing field.
		Neurotechnologies to look out for in the near future that look promising for further development for the purposes of manipulating and enhancing consciousness are listed as follows:
	brainmeta.com /archives/000001.php (352 words)

	Neuroscientists Have Better Tools On the Brain :: Bio-IT World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since the day when then-President George Bush declared the 1990s to be the “Decade of the Brain,” neuroscientists have made significant strides in understanding how the brain is organized structurally and about the inner workings of its individual components, the nerve cells that convey messages throughout the brain and central nervous system.
		What neuroscientists would like is a public database along the lines of GenBank, where researchers would be able to both deposit and extract data in a standardized format.
		The final database allows researchers to integrate the data from any or all of the other databases into any one of a collection of more than 80 computation models of different types of neurons and their properties with uniform formatting and curating.
	www.bio-itworld.com /archive/041503/human-brain (1442 words)

	Neuroscience for Kids - Jobs
		There are many different types of jobs for neuroscientists.
		Some neuroscientists have an M.D. degree, some have a Ph.D. degree, some have both!
		The following table lists some of the types of neuroscientists and what they study.
	faculty.washington.edu /chudler/chjob.html (503 words)

	Amazon.com: Neuroscientists: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Signal Processing for Neuroscientists: An Introduction to the Analysis of Physiological Signals by Wim van Drongelen (Hardcover - Dec 13, 2006)
		A disadvantage for neuroscientists is that the examples are from economy and finance.
		The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'leary (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2007)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&index=books&field-keywords=Neuroscientists&page=1 (543 words)

	Australian Neuroscientists Forge Closer Ties With Their Colleagues In China
		Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) neuroscientists from The University of Queensland will visit Shanghai this week to formalise a growing relationship between QBI and the Chinese Academy of Science,Institute of Neuroscience (ION).
		"In my experience, Chinese neuroscientists are superbly trained and have much to offer in terms of their intellectual insights and the scientific vigour they bring to neuroscience," Professor Bartlett said.
		Three QBI neuroscientists will speak at a joint symposium after the official ceremony marking the QBI-ION agreement on 12 October.
	www.medilexicon.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=53744&language=spanish (516 words)

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