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Richard J. Haier is an American psychologist who has researched a neural basis for human intelligence, psychometrics, general intelligence, and sex and intelligence. Haier is a professor emeritus in the Pediatric Neurology Division of the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine .
Eric Richard Kandel (German:; born Erich Richard Kandel, [2] November 7, 1929 [3]) is an Austrian-born American [3] medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
Ellen Lumpkin and her team discovered the specialization of Merkel cells involved in encoding different aspects of the sensation of touch. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] Her team discovered that Merkel cells have fast, mechanically activated ion channels, they are capable of sending information to activate sensory neurons, and the activity of Merkel cells is ...
Richard Lewis [1] Huganir (born March 25, 1953) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience [2] and Psychological and Brain Sciences, [3] Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, [4] and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute [5] at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Elaine H. Kim is an American writer, editor and professor emerita in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] Kim retired from teaching in 2015. [ 2 ] Her academic interests and research areas included Asian American cultural studies, art, literature, Asian diaspora studies, and Asian American ...
Brainscapes: An Introduction to What Neuroscience Has Learned About the Structure, Function, and Abilities of the Brain, 1995. ISBN 978-0-7868-8190-1; Receptors, 1995; The Modular Brain, 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-80126-1; Older and Wiser 1999
Richard Davidson and his collaborators have used rhesus monkeys as models of human neurophysiology and emotional response since 1992 when he and fellow UW–Madison researchers Ned H. Kalin and Steven E. Shelton published “Lateralized effects of diazepam on frontal brain electrical asymmetries in rhesus monkeys.” [9] In 2004 the same group ...
In 1985 Maunsell was hired as an assistant professor of physiology at the University of Rochester; he was promoted to associate professor in 1991.From 1992 to 2006 he was a professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by an endowed professorship at Harvard Medical School as the Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of Neurobiology from 2006 to 2014.