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Category Archives: Medical sciences
Solving the Problem of Consciousness
You are a very complicated machine, yet you don’t feel like that – it feels like something to be you. Neuroscientist Jaan Aru looks into how the neural machinery of the brain produces conscious experience. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged binocular rivalry, brain, brain research, cognitive psychology, consciousness, neural activity, neurobiological mechanism, neuroscience, perception
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4 New Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Find out the 4 new recipes on how to become a top researcher, shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged PhD, recipe, research, researcher, scientist, success, top scientist
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7 Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Read the 7 recipes on how to become a top researcher, kindly shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged career, publishing, recipes, research, researcher, scientist, tips
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Where Do the European Romani (Gypsies) Come From?
Researching paternal genetic lineage, scientists of the Estonian Biocentre made it possible to more precisely identify the historical homeland of Romani (Gypsies), who now live in Europe as nomads. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research
Tagged European, genetics, India, linguistics, origin, Roma, Romani
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Need for Sleep Is Inherited
A major international study figured out that individuals with a certain variant of the ABCC9 gene had half an hour more sleep on average than those with another variant, and one European in five has this bit of DNA. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research
Tagged Estonian Genome Project, gene variant, genetics, heredity, need for sleep, sleep, study
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‘New Biology’ Cures Before The Illness Strikes
Hunting single genes does give a complete picture of how the human body works and illnesses develop. Instead, we should look at the networks of genes and proteins, says University of Tartu Professor Johan Björkegren. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research
Tagged gene networks, genetics, genome, new biology, preventive medicine
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Reading Human Gene Codes and Minds
In an interview with Sigrid Kõiv, UT professor of Cognitive and Forensic Psychology Talis Bachmann explains the possibilities and problems of reading other peoples’ minds. Professor’s research interests include consciousness studies, visual awareness, advertising effects and much more. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged brain, consciousness, genetics, genome, human mind, man, personality, personality traits
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