NEUROSCIENTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuroscientist mean? 

• NEUROSCIENTIST (noun)
  The noun NEUROSCIENTIST has 1 sense:

1. a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain

  Familiarity information: NEUROSCIENTIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROSCIENTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("neuroscientist" is a kind of...):

neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuroscientist"):

neurolinguist (someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception)

Instance hyponyms:

David Hubel; Hubel (United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926))

Derivation:

neuroscience (the scientific study of the nervous system)

 Context examples 

For a neuroscientist, the ‘Uncanny Valley’ is an interesting phenomenon.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

For neuroscientists, human hearing is a process full of unanswered questions.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

The neuroscientist mentioned that the memory damage happened not just in the adult phase of the infection.

(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)

This is the comment made by Raffaella Rumiati, neuroscientist at the International School for Advanced Studies — SISSA in Trieste, on the results of research carried out by her group which reveals that the way we process different foods changes in accordance with our body mass index.

(Our Weight Tells How We Assess Food, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ever since the late nineteenth century when pioneering neuroscientists, Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Camillo Golgi, drew the earliest maps of the nervous system, scientists have been developing dyes and staining methods to help distinguish the structures in the brain, including different types of cells and their state of health.

(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

The research team, co-led by Ed Lein, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Gábor Tamás, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary, has uncovered a new type of human brain cell that has never been seen in mice and other well-studied laboratory animals.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This collaboration between neuroscientists and immunologists provides important new evidence for ways in which the immune system can play a role in PD, a link that can be used to further define this interaction.

(Immune system may mount an attack in Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

A team led by neuroscientist Michele Bellesi from the Marche Polytechnic University in Italy examined the mammalian brain's response to poor sleeping habits, and found a bizarre similarity between the well-rested and sleepless mice.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled, next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.

(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)

Neuroscientists and psychologists in the UK and Germany have identified mechanisms within the brain that they say help explain how this phenomenon occurs.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)