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Section: History > Genesis. The recommendation to coordinate international efforts in the new field of neuroinformatics was first made in the report on bioinformatics elaborated under the aegis of the then OECD Megascience Forum in 1998. Following extensive discussions in the Neuroinformatics Working Group of the Globa...
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Section: History > Establishment. The conditions laid out for the creation of the INCF were met in July 2005, seven countries (the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States) having signed the Understanding document and pledged their financial contribution. A bid to host the IN...
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Section: History > Key Program deliverables. include Waxholm Space (WHS), a coordinate-based reference space of the rodent brain Scalable Brain Atlas, a web-based display engine for brain atlases, imaging data, and topologies NineML, a general model description language The Multi-Simulation Coordinator (MUSIC), which a...
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Article: International Neuromodulation Society. The International Neuromodulation Society (INS) is a non-profit group of clinicians, scientists and engineers dedicated to the scientific development and awareness of neuromodulation – the alteration of nerve activity through the delivery of electromagnetic stimulation or...
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Section: Regional chapters > Chapter societies worldwide. Argentinean Neuromodulation Society (SANE) Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Benelux Neuromodulation Society Brazilian Neuromodulation Society Canadian Neuromodulation Society Chinese Neuromodulation Society French Neuromodulation Society Germ...
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Section: Timeline. 1992: The first scientific meeting of the INS was held in Rome, Italy. 1995: The North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), the first chapter of the INS, was founded. 1998: The INS' journal, Neuromodulation, was first published. 1999: The Italian Neuromodulation Society was founded. 2001: The Neu...
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Section: History. The idea of an organization like the ISN began in the mid-1950s as scientists began to devote more attention to the discipline of neurochemistry. As the field became more popular, scientists recognized that an international association would be useful in helping to propagate research among themselves....
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Section: Awards. The ISN funds various efforts to improve scientists' understanding of neurochemistry. The Committee for Aid and Education in Neurochemistry (CAEN) supports research endeavours conducted by young scientists or scientists from countries which offer limited support for neurochemical research. In the past,...
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Section: Mission. The ISNV provides an international forum for researchers and clinical scientists working in the field of neurovirology. By promoting collaborative interactions among scientists with common interests, the ISNV supports advances in the field of neurovirology and related disciplines. The goal of the ISNV...
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Section: Governance. The ISNV is managed through its board of directors, which meets bi-annually and in conjunction with the International Symposium on NeuroVirology. The board of directors is responsible for choosing the society's executive officers, which include a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer....
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Section: Symposia. The ISNV regularly sponsors an International Symposium on NeuroVirology and concurrent Conference on HIV in the Nervous System. These meetings involve more than 350 basic and clinical scientists and trainees working in the areas of neurology, neuropathology, neuropathogenesis, neurobiology, neuroimmu...
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Section: Publications. The ISNV periodically publishes a newsletter, which is distributed electronically to all members. The goal of the newsletter is to provide a forum through which information about current Society issues as well as "hot" news in the field of neurovirology can be disseminated. The official journal o...
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Section: Pioneer in NeuroVirology. The Pioneer in NeuroVirology award is presented by the ISNV in recognition of outstanding individual achievement in the field of neurovirology. Each International Symposium on NeuroVirology honors a worthy recipient of this award. Pioneers in NeuroVirology have been recognized by the ...
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Article: Nu Rho Psi. Nu Rho Psi (ΝΡΨ or NRP) is the National Honor Society in Neuroscience, founded in 2006 by the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience and now an independent honor society. Nu Rho Psi is a non-profit, grass-roots organization of neuroscientists and is governed by a National Council elected by the mem...
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Section: Mission, Greek letter designation, and insignia. The official mission and purpose of Nu Rho Psi is to: (1) encourage professional interest and excellence in scholarship, particularly in neuroscience; (2) award recognition to students who have achieved such excellence in scholarship; (3) advance the discipline ...
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Section: History. Nu Rho Psi, the National Honor Society in Neuroscience, was founded in 2006, but its history can be traced to the early 1990s with the founding of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN). In its formative years, Nu Rho Psi was governed by the FUN Council but, as the society grew, FUN decided ...
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Section: Membership requirements. Membership is by invitation and is open to undergraduate and graduate students who are making the study of neuroscience one of their major interests and who meet the other academic qualifications. Nu Rho Psi is also open to qualifying neuroscience faculty and alumni of neuroscience pro...
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Section: Membership benefits. Nu Rho Psi membership provides recognition of verified academic excellence in the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience. Students who become members of Nu Rho Psi are selected based on their superior scholarly accomplishments as well as their excellent work in the laboratory. Nu Rho Psi ...
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Section: Activities and regional/national meetings. As documented in the Nu Rho Psi News, individual Nu Rho Psi chapters organize a variety of service and educational activities throughout the year. Regional Vice-Presidents provide leadership of the federation of chapters in the region where they reside and represent t...
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Section: List of current chapters. Nu Rho Psi chapters are divided into four regional areas in the United States (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West), each with their own representative vice-president. Agnes Scott College Atlanta University Center Consortium (Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta Universit...
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Section: National council. Members of the national council are elected by the Nu Rho Psi membership. President: Shubhik K. DebBurman, Ph.D. (γIL-1), Lake Forest College, professor of biology; chair, neuroscience program, (Term: Nov 2017 – Nov 2018; Immediate Past President: Nov 2018 – Oct 2019). Immediate past presiden...
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Regional vice president, South: Stephanie Ross, M.S. (βGA-20), Georgia State University (Term: Nov 2017 – Nov 2020) Regional vice president, West: Leslie P. Tolbert, Ph.D.(αAZ-47), University of Arizona, regents’ professor in neuroscience and in cellular and molecular medicine, Dept. of Neuroscience (Term: Oct 2015 – N...
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Article: Organization for Human Brain Mapping. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is an organization of scientists with the main aim of organizing an annual meeting ("Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping"). The organization was established in 1995 at its first conference, which was a ...
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Besides organizing meetings, the organization has also advocated for data sharing in its field and established a task force on neuroinformatics. This was at a time when Michael Gazzaniga set up the fMRI Data Center, which required researchers to submit scans from functional magnetic resonance imaging when publishing in...
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Section: Publishing. The Journal of Neuroscience, was launched in 1981 and has consistently been a multidisciplinary journal publishing papers on a broad range of topics of general interest to those working on the nervous-system. In addition, SfN publications offer breadth and depth into the rapidly developing field of...
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Section: Awards. SfN offers the following awards, fellowships, and honors: Award for Education in Neuroscience Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring Chapter of the Year Award CNS Meeting Awards Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience FENS Forum Awards IBRO World Congress Award...
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Article: UCL Neuroscience. UCL Neuroscience is a research domain that encompasses the breadth of neuroscience research activity across University College London's (UCL) School of Life and Medical Sciences. The domain was established in January 2008, to coordinate neuroscience activity across the many UCL departments an...
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Section: History > 20th century. UCL has a long tradition in the neurosciences. Henry Dale and Otto Loewi both worked in Ernest Starling's laboratory in 1904 and went on to share the 1936 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their seminal investigation on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. Starling's successor, Archi...
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He went on to directly measure singe ion channel currents by developing the now ubiquitously used patch-clamp technique with Erwin Neher. They shared the 1991 Prize in recognition of their work on the function of single ion channels Neuroscience at UCL has long been a major cross-disciplinary endeavour. Indeed, JZ Youn...
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Section: History > 21st century. In June 2004, a team of researchers from the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience at UCL published research in Nature describing how the human brain subconsciously remembers the details of past dangers. In December 2004, researchers from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscienc...
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In June 2008, a team led by Professor Maria Fitzgerald of UCL Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology published research showing that infants may be experiencing discomfort when their body movements, blood pressure and facial expressions show them to be pain free. In March 2009 a team led by Professor Eleanor Maguire...
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Section: Research. UCL Neuroscience is ranked second in the world (and first in Europe) for neuroscience and behaviour by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators, with more than twice as many publications and citations as any other European institution. UCL Neuroscience generates over 30% of the UK's contribution to t...
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Article: Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology Program of Szeged. The Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology Program was organised by Csaba Pléh, in 1999 at the Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged. The aim of the program is to introduce the theories and methods of cognitive science and neuropsychology both to ...
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Article: Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies. The Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies (Italian: Istituto Dalle Molle per gli studi semantici e cognitivi or ISSCO) is a research institute in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in Lugano in 1972 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the ...
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Article: Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. The Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (formerly F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging) is one of the four centers which together comprise the Donders Institute. It is located at the campus of the Radboud University Nijmegen and maintains strong ties w...
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Article: Haskins Laboratories. Haskins Laboratories, Inc. is an independent 501(c) non-profit corporation, founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1970. Haskins has formal affiliation agreements with both Yale University and the University of Connecticut; it remains fully independent, administrativ...
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Section: Research tools and facilities. Haskins Laboratories is equipped, in-house, with a comprehensive suite of tools and capabilities to advance its mission of research into language and literacy. As of 2014, these included: Anechoic chamber Electroencephalography BioSemi 264 electrode, 24 bit Active Two System EGI ...
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Section: History > 1950s. Franklin S. Cooper invented the pattern playback, a machine that converts pictures of the acoustic patterns of speech back into sound. With this device, Alvin Liberman, Cooper, and Pierre Delattre (and later joined by Katherine Safford Harris, Leigh Lisker, Arthur Abramson, and others), discov...
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Section: History > 1960s. Franklin S. Cooper and Katherine Safford Harris, working with Peter MacNeilage, were the first researchers in the U.S. to use electromyographic techniques, pioneered at the University of Tokyo, to study the neuromuscular organization of speech. Leigh Lisker and Arthur Abramson looked for simpl...
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Section: History > 1970s. In 1970, Haskins Laboratories moved to New Haven, Connecticut, and entered into affiliation agreements with Yale University and the University of Connecticut; Haskins remains fully independent of both Yale and UConn, administratively and financially. The lab's original location in New Haven, a...
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Cooper was selected to form a panel of six experts charged with investigating the famous 18-minute gap in the White House office tapes of President Richard Nixon related to the Watergate scandal. Building on earlier work, Philip Rubin developed the sinewave synthesis program, which was then used by Robert Remez, Rubin,...
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Section: History > 1980s. Studies of different writing systems supported the controversial hypothesis that all reading necessarily activates the phonological form of a word before, or at the same time, as its meaning. Work included experiments by Georgije Lukatela, Michael Turvey, Leonard Katz, Ram Frost, Laurie Feldma...
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Section: History > 1990s. Katherine Safford Harris, Frederica Bell-Berti and colleagues studied the phasing and cohesion of articulatory speech gestures. Kenneth Pugh was among the first scientists to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal brain activity associated with reading and reading disabilit...
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Section: History > 2000s. In 2000, Anne Fowler and Susan Brady launched the Early Reading Success (ERS) program, part of the Haskins Literacy Initiative which promotes the science of teaching reading. The ERS program was a demonstration project examining the efficacy of professional development in reading instruction f...
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Section: History > 2010s. The Haskins Training Institute was established in 2011 to provide direct educational opportunities in Haskins Laboratories' core areas of research (language, speech perception, speech production, literacy). The Training Institute serves to communicate this knowledge to the public through acces...
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Article: Institut Jean Nicod. The Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) is an interdisciplinary research center based in Paris, France. Its current director is the philosopher Roberto Casati (2017-present), preceded by philosophers François Recanati (2010–2017) and Pierre Jacob (2002–2010). Created in 2002, its name commemorates t...
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Apart from being a European venue for scientifically oriented analytic philosophy, it is engaged in fostering this kind of work through national and international collaborations. As of 2016, the IJN hosts 15 Master, 60 PhD and 24 visiting students (as well as 15 Post-Docs) taught and supervised by its members. The IJN ...
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Section: History and objectives. The institute was initially established as a study group by the same name in 1997 at Shahid Beheshti University, and later accredited by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in 2003 to accept graduate students. In 2016, it departed from its parent university and acted as an ...
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Section: Research, laboratories, and lepartments. ICSS departments consist of: the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Rehabilitation; Department of Cognitive Education; Department of Cognitive Linguistics; Department of Cognitive Modeling; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing and Artificial...
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Section: Cooperations. The institute has had cooperations with many universities in The United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, China, India, and Australia including, but not limited to, Kyoto University, University of Oxford, Yale University, The University of Queensland, Korea University, Seoul National University...
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Section: History. The Institute was founded by renowned Russian scientist Stanislav Kozlovsky, prominent researcher, studied under RAE Academician and American Academy of Arts and Sciences member Eugene Sokolov, and RAS Corresponding Member Boris Velichkovsky. Before founding the Institute, Kozlovsky worked for over 20...
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Section: Research Areas. The Institute focuses on several key areas within cognitive neuroscience, including but not limited to: Neural mechanisms of memory: Studies of working and long-term memory, brain mechanisms of recognition, retention, processing, retrieval, and forgetting of information, as well as physiologica...
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Article: IPM School of Cognitive Sciences. The School of Cognitive Sciences forms part of the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) in Tehran, Iran. The school was called the School of Intelligent Systems (SIS) until 2003 when it was renamed to the School of Cognitive Sciences. The research...
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Article: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) is an international center for advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences. It is a "Home to Theory that Matters" that supports the articulation, analysis, and integ...
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Section: Activities > Altenberg Workshops in Theoretical Biology. The Altenberg Workshops in Theoretical Biology are meetings focused on a key issue of biology, cognition, behavior, or sustainability. All workshops are organized by leading experts in their field, who invite an international group of experts on the topi...
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Section: History. The Krasnow Institute was chartered in 1990 as a result of a bequest from Shelley Krasnow, a long-time resident of the National Capital Area. The work of the institute began in 1993 with a scientific conference, co-sponsored with The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and hosted at George Mason University. This...
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Section: Research > The Center for Neural Informatics, Neural Structures, and Neural Plasticity (CN3). The Center for Neural Informatics, Neural Structures, and Neural Plasticity (CN3) pursues fundamental breakthroughs in neuroscience by fostering neuroinformatic and computational approaches to neuroplasticity and neur...
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Section: Research > Center for Social Complexity (CSC). Scientific projects at the Center for Social Complexity focus on investigating social systems and processes on multiple scales: groups, organizations, economies, societies, regions, international systems. Researchers use a variety of interdisciplinary tools, inclu...
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Section: Role. The McGovern Institute conducts research into all aspects of brain function, including perception, cognition and action. It also conducts clinical and translational research on a wide range of brain disorders. The institute's core facilities include the Martinos Imaging Center, which provides neuroimagin...
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Section: Faculty. Robert Desimone is the current director of the McGovern Institute and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Prior to joining the McGovern Institute in 2004, he was director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute for Mental Health, t...
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Article: McKnight Brain Institute. The Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) at the University of Florida (UF) is a comprehensive and diverse neuroscience research center that houses the UF College of Medicine’s four “neuro” departments: neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. The MBI is...
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Section: History. Dr. William Luttge joined UF in 1971 as an assistant professor of neuroscience in the College of Medicine after earning his Ph.D. in biological sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The neuroscience department at the College of Medicine was one of the first of its kind in the country, and ...
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On October 22, 1998, The University of Florida officially opened the doors to its world-class, UFBI building. The UFBI was renamed the Evelyn F. & William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida (MBI) to celebrate and commemorate a $15 million gift from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation. This awar...
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Section: Research. The department aims to understand the basic processes of intelligence and brain processes. It has four main themes of research: Molecular and cellular neuroscience This deals with biology of neurons and cellular physiology. Systems neuroscience This deals with developing models of cognitive processes...
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Article: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. The Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is a branch of the UK Medical Research Council, based in Cambridge, England. The CBSU is a centre for cognitive neuroscience, with a mission to improve human health by understanding and enhancing cognition and behaviour in health, dis...
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Article: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory is one of the three neuroscience groups at MIT along with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The institute focuses on studying various aspects of learning and memo...
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Article: Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (aka LearnLab) is a Science of Learning Center funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The PSLC is led by Kenneth Koedinger and Charles Perfetti, and in...
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Section: Research. Qualia Research Institute aims to develop a mathematical formalization of consciousness. This is motivated by the premises of qualia formalism, which asserts that subjective human experiences correspond to mathematical structures, as well as valence realism, which asserts that conscious experience ca...
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Article: Queensland Brain Institute. The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) is an Australian neuroscience research institute, located in Brisbane at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland (UQ). Founding director Professor Perry Bartlett established the QBI in 2003 with assistance from The University of Queen...
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Section: Research. Research at QBI focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of brain function and its application to brain diseases and disorders. Although most of QBI's activity is basic science based on model systems (rodent, zebrafish, Drosophila and C. elegans) the institute is also involved in significant research in...
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Article: SENSE lab. The full name of SENSE Lab is Sensory Encoding and Neuro- Sensory Engineering Lab in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It integrates Engineering and physiologic sciences in hearing (communication) and balance. The lab have a clinical focus on disorders of the ear, audition and balance. They are a physio...
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Article: Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre. The Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre (VTHRC, 1988-2007) was the first Commonwealth Special Research Centre to be awarded to the University of Queensland. Located on the St. Lucia campus of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, the VTHRC was headed...
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Section: Career. Upon completing her PhD, Abraham accepted a position at Boston University School of Medicine (BU) as a Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. In this role, she was the recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer's Association to support her research on drug therapy...
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In recognition of her "work on multiple sclerosis and the role of the life extension protein Klotho in the limited repair of white matter in the disease," Abraham was the recipient of a Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium Award. She is also a member of the Society for Neuroscience, American Society for Neurochemistry...
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Section: Academic career. Abramowitz earned his B.A. in Psychology from Muhlenberg College in 1991, his M.A. in psychology from Bucknell University in 1993, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Memphis in 1998. He completed both a predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Center f...
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Section: Research areas and contributions. Treatment of OCD and anxiety: A major focus of Abramowitz's research is the treatment of OCD. His work primarily addresses exposure and response prevention (ERP; a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT]) and he has conducted treatment outcome studies and meta-analytic revi...
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Abramowitz has argued that OCD symptoms lie on a continuum with normal everyday experiences, and that one’s learning history (and to a lesser extent, their biology) influence the frequency, intensity, and duration of OCD symptoms. He has also criticized the DSM-5’s re-classification of OCD as separate from the anxiety ...
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His work has also demonstrated that cognitive factors prospectively predict the escalation of intrusive thoughts into obsessions. Abramowitz also conducts studies on cognitive-behavioral factors in other anxiety and related problems, including health/illness anxiety, shy bladder syndrome, panic disorder, and hoarding. ...
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Section: Awards, recognition, and leadership. Abramowitz's contributions to the fields of OCD, anxiety disorders, and clinical psychology are recognized by his colleagues, peers, and the media through numerous honors, awards, and appearances. He is a Fellow and past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cogni...
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Section: Selected works > Books. Abramowitz, J. S. (2006). Understanding and treating obsessive-compulsive disorder: A cognitive-behavioral approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. ISBN 9780805851847 Abramowitz, J. S., Taylor, S., & McKay, D. (Eds.) (2008). Clinical handbook of obsessive-compulsive disor...
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Section: Selected works > Journal articles. Abramowitz, J.S. (1996). "Variants of exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis". Behavior Therapy. 27 (4): 583–600. doi:10.1016/S0005-7894(96)80045-1. Abramowitz, J.S. (1997). "Effectiveness of psychological and pharm...
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(2001). "Paradoxical effects of thought suppression: A meta-analysis of controlled studies". Clinical Psychology Review. 21 (5): 683–703. doi:10.1016/S0272-7358(00)00057-X. PMID 11434226. Abramowitz, J. S.; Franklin, M. E.; Schwartz, S. A.; Furr, J. M. (2003). "Symptom presentation and outcome of cognitive-behavior the...
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Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 132 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2004.07.001. PMID 15546704. S2CID 9941792. Abramowitz, J. S.; Whiteside, S. P.; Deacon, B. J. (2005). "The effectiveness of treatment for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis". Behavior Therapy. 36: 55–63. doi:10.1016/S0005...
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"New parenthood as a risk factor for the development of obsessional problems". Behav Res Ther. 45 (9): 2155–63. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2006.09.019. PMID 17084810. Abramowitz, J. S.; Taylor, S.; McKay, D. (2009). "Obsessive-compulsive disorder". The Lancet. 374 (9688): 491–499. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60240-3. PMID 196656...
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S. (2012). "The Arnold Schwarzenegger Effect: Is strength of the "victim" related to misinterpretations of harm intrusions?". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 50 (12): 761–766. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2012.09.002. PMID 23085185. Abramowitz, J. S.; Baucom, D. H.; Boeding, S.; Wheaton, M. G.; Pukay-Martin, N.; Fabricant, L. E....
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S.; Mittleman, A. (2013). "The neuropsychology of adult obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis". Clinical Psychology Review. 33 (8): 1163–1171. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2013.09.004. PMID 24128603. Abramowitz, J. S.; Fabricant, L. E.; Taylor, S.; Deacon, B. J.; McKay, D.; Storch, E. A. (2014). "The relevance of analogu...
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PMID 25581239. S2CID 45823266. Jacoby, R. J.; Abramowitz, J. S. (2016). "Inhibitory Learning Approaches to Exposure Therapy: A Critical Review and Translation to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder". Clinical Psychology Review. 49: 28–40. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2016.07.001. PMID 27521505. Blakey, S. M.; Abramowitz, J. S. (2016). ...
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L.; Bluett, E. J.; Reuman, L.; Blakey, S. M.; Lederman, T. (2018). "Adding acceptance and commitment therapy to exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A randomized controlled trial". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 108: 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2018.06.005. PMID 29966992. S2CID 49571898. Jac...
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Article: Susan Ackerman (neuroscientist). Susan L. Ackerman is an American neuroscientist and geneticist. Her work has highlighted some of the genetic and biochemical factors that are involved in the development of the central nervous system and age-related neurodegeneration. Her research is aimed at helping scientists...
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Section: Career and research > Unc5c. Ackerman's research has centered largely on the Unc5c gene. The gene product of Unc5c is the Unc5c protein, a neurological netrin receptor. Her research on Unc5c protein revealed that the protein is integral in the development of the corpus callosum, the neurons that form the conne...
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Section: Selected publications. Picciotto, Marina R.; Addy, Nii A.; Mineur, Yann S.; Brunzell, Darlene H. (2008-04-01). "It is not "either/or": Activation and desensitization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors both contribute to behaviors related to nicotine addiction and mood". Progress in Neurobiology. 84 (4): 329–...
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Section: Awards. During his time at RCA Laboratories, Adelson won the 1984 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America. He joined the faculty at MIT in 1987, first at the Media Lab before moving to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1994. In 1992, he received the Rank Prize in Opto-electronics,...
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Section: Education and career. Adkins-Regan received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1967. She earned her Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. She was one of the first graduate students of Norman T. Adler. Her dissertation research focuse...
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Section: Research. In her early research using the Japanese quail, Adkins-Regan performed a number of fundamental experiments on the mechanisms of sexual differentiation of behavior in birds, which have a ZW sex determination system. Her work demonstrated that, unlike what is observed in mammalian sexual differentiatio...
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Section: Notable publications. Adkins, E. K., & Adler, N. T. (1972). Hormonal control of behavior in the Japanese quail. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 81(1), 27–36. doi:10.1037/h0033315 Adkins, E. K. (1975). Hormonal basis of sexual differentiation in the Japanese quail. Journal of Comparative an...
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Section: Selected publications. George K Aghajanian: Modeling "psychosis" in vitro by inducing disordered neuronal network activity in cortical brain slices. Psychopharmacology. George Aghajanian, Benjamin S Bunney, and Philip S Holzman: Patricia Goldman-Rakic, 1937–2003. Neuropsychopharmacology. George K Aghajanian an...
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Section: Career. Aisen did his undergraduate work in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard and obtained his medical degree from Columbia University. He did his residency at Case Western Reserve University and at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and trained further through a fellowship in rheumatology at ...
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USC rented space for Aisen in a San Diego office park, where Keck's Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute is located under Aisen's direction. Some aspects of data management were temporarily settled in 2016; and a settlement was reached in 2019, with USC to pay UCD $50 million compensation and make a public statem...
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Section: PSYONIC. The company's first product, the Ability Hand, is the fastest bionic hand in the world with sensors that attach to the users’ remaining limb, allowing them to control the hand with their arm muscles. It is also the first hand on the market to give users touch feedback, so they can feel what sensors in...
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Article: Huda Akil. Huda Akil (Arabic: هدی عاقل; born 1945) is a Syrian-American neuroscientist whose research has contributed to the understanding of the neurobiology of emotions, including pain, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. Akil and her colleagues are best known for providing the first physiological evid...
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