Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system, encompassing various disciplines like psychology and biology. Neurology is a medical specialty focusing on diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system.
Most neuroscience PhD candidates have an undergraduate degree in psychology, biology, or neuroscience, though they may have backgrounds in other fields, even non-science ones such as business or humanities. Most schools only accept a few neuroscience PhD candidates a year based on stringent criteria...
The complete visualization of astrocytes using whole-cell filling techniques revealed that reactive astrocytes display subtle morphological changes and remain in their 3D territorial domain, highlighting that GFAP immunostaining overestimates the true degree of astrocyte hypertrophy. Article CAS PubMed PubMed...
In the past 15 years, mind-wandering has become a prominent topic in cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Whereas mind-wandering has come to be predominantly defined as task-unrelated and/or stimulus-unrelated thought, we argue that this content-based definition fails to capture the defining quali...
2022, Clinical Psychology Review Citation Excerpt : Affective sharing diverges from other affective empathy subcomponents due to its degree of isomorphism and it has been associated with distinct neurobiological correlates when compared, for example, to empathic concern (de Vignemont & Singer, 2006; Dec...
This paper attempts to integrate three fields of study--- affective neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and psychopathology in an attempt to demonstrate that 'under the radar' there been a slow emergence of new field, that of implicit affect. The first part of this paper devotes itself to a ...
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(CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile and 5School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica ...
BMC Neuroscience BioMed Central Research article Open Access Gender differences in hemispheric asymmetry for face processing Alice M Proverbio*1,2, Valentina Brignone†1, Silvia Matarazzo†1, Marzia Del Zotto1,2 and Alberto Zani2 Address: 1Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, ...
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