A NOBEL WINNER October 11 , 2000 Paul Greengard, one of this year s winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine, joins Dr. Steve Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to talk about his research and winning the Nobel Prize. RAY SUAREZ: The award this year went for discoveries about how messages move around the nervous system and help us understand the functioning of the brain.

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Rae Fry talks to the discoverer of prions (which cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) Dr Stanley Prusiner who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery ...

New Mindset on Consciousness By Roger Sperry As a brain researcher, I'd started out simply accepting the strictly objective principles of the behaviorist position. In the 1950s and early 1960s, all respectable neuroscientists thought in these terms. In those days, we wouldn't have been caught dead implying that consciousness or subjective experience can affect physical brain processing. My first ...

David H. Hubel Medicine If you hear about a scientist who appeals to your interests, look him or her up. Don't be shy... Achievement Co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for mapping the visual cortex Birthdate February 27, 1926 Birthplace Windsor, Ontario Other Interests Flute, woodworking, photography, languages, astronomy, skiing, tennis and squash. Last Updated ...

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Photo by Lois MacBird; courtesy of the California Institute of Technology Roger Wolcott Sperry August 20, 1913 April 17, 1994 By Theodore J. Voneida WHERE DOES BEHAVIOR COME from What is the purpose of consciousness Questions such as these, which appeared on the first page of Sperry's class notes in a freshman psychology course at Oberlin ...

An interview with Torsten Wiesel Recently Geoffrey Montgomery, assistant to the president for special projects, and Mariellen Gallagher, vice president of communications and public affairs, met with retiring President Torsten Wiesel to get his thoughts on his presidential tenure at RU. GM: Before becoming president of RU, did you ever envision yourself as the head of an institution TW: Not ...