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Suh Yoo-hun
Suh Yoo-hun (Korean: 서유헌, born February 8, 1948) is a South Korea n neuroscientist. His researches focus on neurodegeneration, especially on the discovery of genes and therapies for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Suh Yoo-hun was born in Seoul. He obtained his MD in 1973 and his PhD in medicine and pharmacology in 1981, both degrees at the college of medicine in Seoul Nati
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Roger Shepard
Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929) is an American cognitive scientist and author of the "universal law of generalization" (1987). He is considered a father of research on spatial relations. He studied mental rotation, and was an inventor of non-metric multidimensional scaling, a method for representing certain kinds of statistical data in a graphical form that can be apprehended by hu
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Róbert Bárány
Robert Bárány (Hungarian: Bárány Róbert; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈroːbɛrt ˈbaːraːɲ]; 22 April 1876 – 8 April 1936) was an ethnic Hungarian otologist from Austria.[1] He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.[2] Bárány was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was the eldest of six child
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Keith Holyoak
Keith James Holyoak (born January 16, 1950) is a Canadian-American researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of analogy in thinking.[1] His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults,[2] as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brai
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Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan (/ˈɡɪlɪɡən/; born November 28, 1936) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships. Gilligan is a professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York University and was a visiting professor at the Centre for Gender Studies and Jesus College at the University of Cambridge until 2009. She is k
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René Sotelo
René Sotelo (6 November 1962) is a Venezuelan robotic surgeon, urologist-oncologist and university professor.[1][2] Sotelo received his medical degree from Central University of Venezuela[3] and his residency in General Surgery and Urology was at Domingo Luciani Hospital, Venezuela. He completed fellowship in Urologic Oncology at the Hospital Padre Machado in Caracas, Venezuela; training in
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Fotios Barkas
Nationality: Greek (+30) 6936636376 (+30) 2651099846 Date of birth: 16/10/1986 Email addresses: fotisbarkas@windowslive.com; f.barkas@ic.ac.uk; f.barkas@uoi.gr Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fotis.barkas.3 Twitter: https://twitter.com/fotisbarkas LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fotisbarkas Home address: Aoou 21, 45221 Ioannina (Greece) Consultant in Internal Medicine University Hospital
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Frances Champagne
Frances A. Champagne is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of molecular neuroscience, maternal behavior, and epigenetics. Her main research interest concerns how genetic and environmental factors interact to regulate maternal behavior, and how natural variations in this behavior can shape the behavioral development of offspring through epigenetic changes in gene ex
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Jan Evangelista Dyr
Jan was born on 24 September 1946 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Macromolecular Chemistry from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague in 1969. Then, he earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1978 from Charles University and a DrSc. in Chemistry in 1994 from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 1984 he became the Head of the Departm
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