Word: neuroscientist
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...BRAIN Whether the cause is maternal antibodies, heavy metals or something else, there is no question that the brains of young children with autism have unusual features. To begin with, they tend to be too big. In studies based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and basic tape-measure readings, neuroscientist Eric Courchesne at Children's Hospital of San Diego showed that while children with autism are born with ordinary-size brains, they experience a rapid expansion by age 2 - particularly in the frontal lobes. By age 4, says Courchesne, autistic children tend to have brains the size of a normal...
...when 6 percent of the patients tested experienced brain inflammation. Ultimately, researchers would like the new vaccine to be tested on humans, according to one of the study’s authors, Cynthia A. Lemere, who is an associate professor of neurology at the Medical School and an associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Center for Neurologic Diseases. “We would very much like to take one of our short-immunogen vaccines into human clinical trials,” Lemere said. “But we’re still working...
...that she's doing homework--all at the same time--but what's really going on is a rapid toggling among tasks rather than simultaneous processing. "You're doing more than one thing, but you're ordering them and deciding which one to do at any one time," explains neuroscientist Grafman...
...months, we crisscrossed the country, interviewing sleep experts, getting tested in sleep labs and even flying a 747 simulator after being awake for 30 hours. I got my first clue that I might be more sleep deprived than I thought in a lab run by Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School...
...Scientists have conducted several hundred studies of the theory that brain reserve - the effect of formal education and mentally challenging work and leisure pursuits - may, through some mechanism not fully understood, protect people against dementia. Aware that the studies had tossed up contradictory results, University of N.S.W. neuroscientist Michael Valenzuela and colleague Perminder Sachdev last year conducted the first systematic review of research on brain reserve. Having integrated data from 22 studies of possible links between people's behavior and their subsequent brain health, the pair bring down their verdict in a paper about to be published in British journal...