neurobiology

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Imagine that we find the Holy Grail of neurobiology, the patterns of neural activation that correlate perfectly with different events in our mental lives.

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  1. noun The biological study of the nervous system or any part of it.

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  • I'm not sure what these belief systems are telling me about the real world, but I think that psychology and neurobiology are the fields best equipped to delve into this Could this be explosions of shamanistic needs from a culture cut off from a rich aboriginal psychospiritual tradition that we still see, say, in American Indians and other older groups? —  Omni: December 1994
  • And like his work in neurobiology, which he turned to after decades of pioneering work in molecular and developmental biology, he is slowly mapping the territory out there as well, walking trails each twilight through the desert with his wife, learning the names of wildlife and vegetation: creosote bush, ocotillo, elephant tree. —  Omni: February 1994
  • The real mysteries of neurobiology are essentially problems described by classical physics operating in large systems. —  Omni: January 1993
  • His research has made significant and innovative contributions to the fields of developmental neurobiology, cell cycle regulation, stem cell biology, developmental therapeutics and cancer genetics.
  • And somewhere, in the fields of neurobiology or genetic modification today the germ of that change may already be present. —  Sentient Developments
 

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