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n. A scientist whose speciality is neuroscience.
WordNet
n. a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain
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A neuroscientist is a trained scientist, typically with a PhD or a MD, who studies the scientific field of neuroscience or any of its related sub-fields. Neuroscience is a highly interdisciplinary field encompassing study in fields such as biology, chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, engineering, and mathematics. Any individual from these fields who contributes to neuroscience-related research may be considered a neuroscientist.
These scientists generally work as researchers within a college, university, government agency, or private industry setting. In research-oriented careers, neuroscientists typically spend their time designing and carrying out scientific experiments that contribute to the understanding of the nervous system and its function. Neuroscientists can engage in basic or applied research. Basic research seeks to add information to our current understanding of the nervous system, whereas applied research seeks to address a specific problem, such as developing a treatment for a neurological disorder. Biomedically-oriented neuroscientists typically engage in applied research. Neuroscientists also have a number of career opportunities outside the realm of research, including careers in science writing, government program management, science advocacy, and education. These individuals most commonly hold doctorate degrees in the sciences, but may also hold a masters or medical degree.
Usage examples of "neuroscientist".
I can see my own moves, from chemistry to biochemistry, from bio- to neurochemistry, as a forerunner to the arrival of the new generations of neurobiologists and neuroscientists.
While neuroscientists may identify specific neurophysiological events that arise as correlates to specific conscious states, it is not apparent what that would tell us about the nature or the origins of consciousness.
Neuroscientists, too, have begun to identify some of the brain correlates to specific states of human consciousness.
While some neuroscientists are seeking the neural correlates of conscious and unconscious mental states in humans, others are trying to identify the structural conditions over the course of evolution under which the first intentional capacities in living organisms could emerge.
Neuroscientists may detect the precise brain correlates of a perception of red, for example, and they may be able to manipulate brain processes directly to induce such a perception.
Chapter 3 therefore describes my own, subjective memories, and my formation as a neuroscientist.
Neuroscientists and neurophilosophers are steadfastly studying the brain, which they are sure is solely responsible for the production of all conscious states, much as medieval monks studied the Bible, with the certainty that its Author was solely responsible for the creation of the universe.
Many neuroscientists who do accept military money argue that because what they do is basic research it is of no real military relevance and cannot be used directly - for instance to develop new types of chemical or biological weapons.
Such abstractions, for neuroscientists, include molecules, electrical fields, units of behaviour .
Since that time, especially during the past few decades, neuroscientists have made major advances in discovering ways in which the brain influences mental processes, but they remain in the dark as to the origins of states of consciousness and the nature of their precise inner constitution.
Likewise, neuroscientists may manipulate the brain so that one feels pleasure.
While neuroscientists are making wonderful strides in exploring the brain and its relation to the mind, when it comes to exploring the nature of consciousness itself, their research is inhibited by ideological taboos.
If qualia were simply nonexistent, none of us, including neuroscientists, would be able to perceive, understand, or actively engage with the world about us.
But most contemporary neuroscientists are absolutely committed to this strategy, a point that Searle apparently overlooks.
Eric Neumann, a member of both the Bio-Ontologies and BioPathways consortia, is a neuroscientist who is now vice president for life science informatics at the consulting firm 3rd Millennium in Cambridge, Mass.