Understanding ISIS’S Thought that Brings to Radical Action

Action mirroring and action understanding in children

The past decade has experienced an increasing interest in action underestanding and children’s mirroring of others’ behavior. Behavioral investigations have focused on the development and significance of mimicry, goal prediction and imitation. Others have focused on the neural basis of action mirroring, identifying particular electrophysiological markers or related brain regions. A vivid debate...

From thought to action

Systems engineering is rapidly assuming a prominent role in neuroscience that could unify scientific theories, experimental evidence, and medical development. In this three-part work, I study the neural representation of targets before reaching movements and the generation of prosthetic control signals through stochastic modeling and estimation. In the first part, I show that temporal and histo...

Thought barriers to understanding rheumatic diseases.

Turning thought into action.

Patients with spinal cord injury, subcortical stroke, neuromuscular diseases (including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and limb amputation have at least two characteristics in common: a brain that wants to direct movement and a body that fails to respond accordingly. Despite intact cortical function , central motor commands in persons with these paralyzing disorders are " disconnected " from t...

Mentorship: The Bond that Brings Us Together

By the time you read this, the 37 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will be underway, or will have come and gone. This year also marks the 16 anniversary of Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), the parent organization of JUNE. Like many of you, I look forward to the SfN meeting, not just to learn more about neuroscience and how to teach neuroscience more effectively, but a...