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neuroanatomist

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[noor-oh-uh-nat-uhm-ist, nyoor-oh-] / ˌnʊr oʊ əˈnæt əm ɪst, ˌnjʊr oʊ- /

noun

  • neuroanatomists
    plural
  1. a person with expertise in neuroanatomy.


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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

Indeed, it was because of birds’ and mammals’ similar cognitive abilities that Martin Stacho, a neuroanatomist at Germany’s Ruhr-University Bochum, decided to investigate the avian forebrain, which controls perception.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 24, 2020

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

Jennifer Stone is a cell biologist and neuroanatomist, who works primarily on avian hair cell regeneration.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 15, 2013

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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