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Neurobio Investigators
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
12/14/2011

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Ewert
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toads
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Edward Wilson
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"key to sociobiology of mammals is milk"
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Court Peterson
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oxytocin injection --> promotes maternal behavior
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Sue Carter
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showed ocytoxin contributes to mom-dad pair bonding
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Miranda Lynn
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injected prarie vole geneti material into montane voles
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David Olton
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developed radial arm maze
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Clive Wearing
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human example of hippocampal impact on memory
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H.M.
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epileptic --> had hippocampus lesioned --> severe memory defecits
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Brenda Milner/William Scoville
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studied H.M.
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O'Keefe/Dostrovsy
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discovered place cells
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Wilson/McNaughton
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discovered "ensemble codes"
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Howard Eichenbaum
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used t-maze to study right/left turn cells
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James Ranck
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head direction cells
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Blair/Sharp
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future position cells
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Bliss/Lomo
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discovered LTP
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Tonegawa
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NR1 subunit in hippocampus affects spatial learning
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Tsein
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NR2B affects spatial learning
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Aristotle
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believed the heart was the seed of intelligence
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Hippocrates
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believed the brain was the seed of intelligence/controlled thought
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Galen
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physician to greek gladiators --> felt brain to determine function of areas
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Bell/Majendie
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dorsal roots --> sensory inputs

ventral roots --> efferent information

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Franz Gall
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developed the idea of phrenology
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Fowler
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author of the A.P.J.

sold mapped out phrenological busts

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Flourens/Bigalow
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Bigalow --> introduced anesthetics to surgery

both believed the brain was equipotential

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Harlow
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physician to Phineas Gage
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Phineas Gage
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tamping iron flew through skull/brain --> lived

(Sept. 14, 4:30p.m. 1848)

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Broca
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discovered center for motor speech control (Broca's area)
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Aubertin
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worked with Broca on speech localization in the brain

(suicide patient that failed, and "Tan")

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Lord Nelson
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first documented case of phantom limb syndrome

believed that this was a sign of the after-life

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Silas Mitchell
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published about phantom limb syndrome after he lost limbs in the civil war
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Edward Taub
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studied the silver spring monkeys
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Alex Pacheco
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screwed over Taub, started PETA
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Pons
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published on findings of silver spring monkeys --> saw first remapping of neocortex due to loss of sensory input (Vandy)
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Jain
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studied neural sprouting in the cuneate nucleus
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Paul Marasco
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developed/developing touch transducers for prosthetic limbs to provide touch feedback
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Merzenich/Xerri
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fingertip stimulation/reward system in primates
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Sperry/Gazzaniga
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split brain studies
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Lende
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mapped hedgehog brain --> saw serious overlap of function in 'primitive' brains
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Van der Loos
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saw that sensory systems (surfaces) develop before the neural system, and control development of neural system
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Shimori/Grove
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studied FGF8's (growth hormone) effect on somatosensory representation in the neural system.
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