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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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The new results “are a really powerful demonstration that body size and brain size are regulated as two separate entities,” says Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroanatomist at Vanderbilt University who was not involved with the research.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 30, 2022

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

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

Now, none of this is terribly salacious—and it's quite possible that the first neuroanatomist ever to use this term, the 17th-century Englishman Thomas Willis, had nary a dirty thought in mind.

From Slate • May 17, 2011

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