Parent-Investigators

Investigating investigators: examining witnesses' influence on investigators.

This research examined the influence of eyewitness identification decisions on participants in the role of police investigators. Undergraduate "investigators" interviewed confederate "witnesses" and then searched a computer database of potential suspects. The database included information on each suspect's physical description, prior criminal record, alibi, and fingerprints. Participants select...

Linking investigators

108 Many multifactorial diseases, such as various forms of cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease and schizophrenia, still pose a considerable challenge for those researchers intent on understanding their causes. Some progress has been made in identifying the genes that contribute to such diseases and the availability of the sequence of the human genome holds further potential. However, scien...

Careers for clinician investigators.

For the purposes of this article, we define clinical research as that form of medical research that involves human beings as the direct subjects of the research at the individual or a population level. The research may involve the study of biological samples (eg, blood, genes, proteins, and tissue) as a means to understand the individual or the group, but the ultimate objective for the clinical...

Responsibilities of investigators.

Young Investigators Colloquium 1

Most neurons in the mammalian brain receive thousands of excitatory synaptic inputs that are widely distributed along the dendritic arbor and activated with varying degrees of synchrony. Summation of unitary synaptic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) at the dendrite is crucial for initiation of the action potential. Patterned neuronal activity, which is known to modify synaptic transmi...