Last year, after a particularly discouraging interaction regarding my department’s willingness to support me in applying for grants, I made the half-crazed move of googling ‘mental health research jobs near me’. I found a company that looked good, clicked on their contact page, uploaded my ...
One major aim of current neuroscience research, then, is to study how this wiring works and what happens when it's damaged. New developments in brain scanning allow researchers to see more detailed images and determine not only where there may be damage but also how that damage affects, for...
This book has been a massive influence on me, as has Dennett himself, throughout my career. And I’ve been lucky enough to get to know him a bit over the last few years as part of my role in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where I’m a co-director, and he’s one ...
research methodologies. This policy came primarily from discussions among the researchers, rather than ‘top down’ from me as the overall lab head, and I’m grateful that it did. One thing that’s become clear is that lab heads and research group leaders would do well to reflect on their...
But the true answer is we need both. We need to take zoonosis more seriously, and we need more research into the diseases that could cause the next pandemic, but we need to take biosafety as seriously as we take nuclear security. And that doesn’t just mean strictly vetting grants and ...
what’s affected in the brain are not the components but rather, the wiring – the axons. White matter might be just as important or even more important than the gray matter for cognition, even if its contribution might be more subtle. Much of my current research revolves around this idea...
Research Highlight|05 April 2022 Lung microbiota and MS Karli Montague-Cardoso Perspective|05 April 2022 Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods Human neuroscience methods (for example, electroencephalography, functional near-infrared spectroscopy and electrodermal response) are bi...
“Just give me a pill,” Schiller crooned at one point, during the chorus of a song called “Memory Pill.”“Wash away my memories …” The irony is that if research by Schiller and others holds up, you may not even need a pill to strip a memory of its power to frighten or oppre...
BMC Neuroscience BioMed Central Research article Open Access Anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment does not prevent cell body shrinkage in the motor cortex in adult monkeys subjected to unilateral cervical cord lesion Marie-Laure Beaud†1, Eric Schmidlin†1, Thierry Wannier†1,2, Patrick Freund1, ...
Existing neuroscience literature is reviewed to identify concepts, methods and challenges that might be addressed by social feelings research. Specific topic areas highlight the influence and modulation of social feelings on interpersonal affiliation, parent-child attachments, moral sentiments, interpersonal ...