neuroanatomist
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Looking for a more trustworthy alternative, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroanatomist at Vanderbilt University, turned to a different measure: the density of neurons in the cortex, the wrinkly outer brain area critical to most intelligence-related tasks.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2023
As neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor told Salon in June, "When we dig our heels into something that we are emphatic and passionate about, we are using our limbic system, our emotional system."
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2021
A shift came in 2003, when Heiko Braak, a neuroanatomist at the University of Ulm in Germany, and his colleagues proposed that Parkinson’s may actually originate in the gut rather than the brain.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2018
Vanderbilt neuroanatomist Suzana Herculano-Houzel has figured out a way to count the neurons in a creature’s brain, a number that seems to correspond, to some extent, with an animal’s problem-solving skills.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2018
A group led by neuroanatomist Heiko Braak at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, charts the development of Parkinson's pathology.
From Nature ● Oct. 25, 2016
Cajal provided glimpses of the shapes that distinguish some cell types, but also left a virtually infinite amount of work for future generations of neuroanatomists.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2021
At the time, glial cells were considered the brain’s equivalent of junk DNA, and most neuroanatomists were not interested in them.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2016
In 2008, her brain arrived — 1,400 grams of gray tissue encased in paraffin — in the lab of German neuroanatomists Katrin Amunts and Karl Zilles at the University of Dusseldorf’s Institute for Brain Research.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2013
In 1939, neuroanatomists Heinrich Klüver and Paul Bucy removed the greater portions of both temporal lobes and the rhinencephalon from the brains of rhesus monkeys.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2011
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