Neuroscience and education: From basic research to educational translation

Meditation and Neuroscience: From Basic Research to Clinical Practice

Meditation has been extensively practiced in many civilizations for thousands of years as a means of cultivating a state of well-being and for religious purposes. It has now started to be studied in terms of its influence on the brain and body and used in clinical settings. This chapter will first review meditation effects at the physiological, attentional, and affective levels and the scientif...

Cancer, Senescence, and Aging: Translation from Basic Research to Clinics

1Oncoloǵıa y Patoloǵıa Grupo, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, 08035 Barcelona, Spain 2Unitat de Recerca Biomédica, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain 3Genomic Stability Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, 07745 Jena, Germany 4Genome High-Throughput Sequencing Laboratory, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv Uni...

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress 2012

The Curious Road from Basic Pathogen Research to Clinical Translation

I was very lucky to have stumbled into curiosity-driven scientific research for a career, because I suspect that I have always had a poorly developed herd instinct. In my case, when I set up my first research lab as a new primary investigator in 1980, I elected to study a family of viruses that infect only rabbits. Why rabbits, you ask? I had become fascinated by events that had happened a half...

construction and validation of translation metacognitive strategy questionnaire and its application to translation quality

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...