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An emotional evening is likely as the 14th annual Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation welcomes the return of the chief executive officer of Cape Fear Valley Health System, Mike Nagowski, who suffered a cranial cerebral hemorrhage aneurysm in October.

Mike Nagowski will take the words of his family physician to heart Saturday evening when the chief executive officer of Cape Fear Valley Health System delivers what has become his annual state-of-health care address in this and surrounding communities.

Mike, you have a second chance in life, and God must have a calling on your life, Dr. John Moultrie would tell Nagowski at the end of an annual health exam in December 10 weeks after Nagowski's surgery and recovery from an Oct. 12 cranial cerebral hemorrhage aneurysm. You have something more to do, and make the most of God's plan.

Moultries words resonated with Nagowski.

I'm going to tell a bit of my story, Nagowski, 54, says about the 14th annual Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation Gala scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Highland Country Club, and where the CEO will address an estimated audience of 500 to include physicians, nurses and about 40 members of the fledgling resident program at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

The evening will not be lost on Sabrina Brooks.

We are so thankful to have Mr. Nagowski back as our leader, says Brooks, the foundation's executive director. His vision for health care in this community and dedication to Cape Fear Valley Health is unparalleled, and we are grateful for his leadership. With the importance of expanding the graduate medical education program and establishing the neuroscience center at the forefront of the foundations efforts, Mr. Nagowskis presence will help share the impact these programs will have on enhancing health care for our community and the southeast region of North Carolina.

It will be emotional for many in the room.

This event will be his 'coming out' after his absence, Brooks says, and I believe his remarks will talk about the quality of health care Cape Fear Valley provides to the community and the ways we continue to expand care, something he now has a new perspective on due to his personal experience.

The evening will not be lost on Emily Schaefer.

It definitely will be a moment, says Schaefer, president of the foundation that has raised $1,664,000 through the gala since 2007. Two months ago, we didn't think this would be happening.

The evening will not be lost on Michael Hodges.

I am thankful my friend Mike Nagowski has returned to work, says Hodges, a Fayetteville cardiologist.I believe his return to work, and his survival, is a miracle that causes me to pause and give thanks.During his years of leadership, the health system has enjoyed unprecedented growth.

Mike Nagowski is not a physician.

He cannot operate on your ailing heart or reroute your blocked arteries. He cannot remove a cancerous tumor. Or your gall bladder. He cannot nurse you in an intensive care unit or deliver a newborn in the neonatal unit.

But he is the vision for Cape Fear Valley Health, which consists of 850 physicians, 1,779 licensed nurses to include certified registered nurse anesthetists and licensed nurse practitioners in the health system's six-county region that serves Bladen, Harnett, Hoke, Robeson, Sampson and Cumberland counties.

The health system proper, Nagowski says, cares for 44,000 inpatients, approximately 260,000 emergency department visits and 450,000 physician office visits, with 36,000 inpatient and, 140,000 emergency department visits at the medical center alone on Owen Drive.

Nagowski gets down to the business Saturday of his second chance.

We need the neuroscience institute, Nagowski says of what he envisions for the fifth floor of the Center for Medical Education and Research building, a $28.3 million structure to be built on what once was a nurses dormitory when the hospital opened in 1956. The nation is not producing enough neurosurgeons. Neurosurgeons are the hardest to recruit. Recruiting and convincing them is the difficult part.

There are two neurosurgeons at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Nagowski says, about Dr. Charles Haworth and Dr. Melissa Stamates.

Our neurosurgeons are board-certified and qualified to do all types of neurosurgery, both heads and backs, Nagowski says. The bulk of Charles practice is complicated spine, and while Dr. Stamates does both back and head, she has additional training and interest in brain.

The hospital, Nagowski says, could use three more neurosurgeons to cover the region and complement the residency program in its third year with 100 resident physicians specializing in general surgery, pediatrics, OB-GYN, psychiatry and other medical fields. The goal is 300 residents, and the Cape Fear Health Foundation is working to raise $3 million toward the effort, of which most of the funding has been secured.

That's vision Mike Nagowski's vision.

Our medical community is on the verge of becoming a significant regional academic medical center with far-reaching implications for the improvement of healthcare to all those we see, says Hodges, the cardiologist. I believe the journey would have looked far different without Mike leading the effort. I believe he is living for a reason, and he will transform his future efforts into fulfilling that purpose.

A final word, if you will, from Nagowski.

This happens to people every day, Nagowski says about brain aneurysms. This illustrates the need for a neuroscience center here. Health care is best when it is delivered locally. If I had waited another 24 hours, we would not be talking. What we say and do always has been important to me. This has deepened my belief that what we do here is all about the patient, and we have more work to do here for health care. And with a medical school on this campus, it will be our faculty.

Columnist Bill Kirby Jr. can be reached at bkirby@fayobserver.com or 910-486-3571.

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The Spinal Cord Organizes Locomotion Like a Three-gear Engine – Technology Networks

January 23, 2020 medical

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have revealed a new principle of organisation which explains how locomotion is coordinated in vertebrates akin to an engine with three gears. The results are published in the scientific journal Neuron.

A remarkable feature of locomotion is its capacity for rapid starts and to change speed to match our intentions. However, there is still uncertainty as to how the rhythm-generating circuit - the locomotor engine - in the spinal cord is capable of instantaneously translating brain commands into rhythmic and appropriately paced locomotion.

Using zebrafish as a model organism, researchers at Karolinska Institutet reveal in detail a full reconstruction of the rhythm-generating engine driving locomotion in vertebrates.

"We have uncovered a novel principle of organisation that is crucial to perform an intuitively simple, yet poorly understood function: the initiation of locomotion and the changing of speed," says Abdel El Manira, Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study.

The researchers performed a comprehensive and quantitative mapping of connections (synapses) between neurons combined with behavioural analyses in zebrafish. The results revealed that the excitatory neurons in the spinal cord which drive locomotion form three recurrent, rhythm-generating circuit modules acting as gears which can be engaged at slow, intermediate or fast locomotor speeds. These circuits convert signals from the brain into coordinated locomotor movements, with a speed that is aligned to the initial intention.

"The insights gained in our study can be directly applicable to mammals, including humans, given that the organising principle of the brainstem and spinal circuits is shared across vertebrate species," says Abdel El Manira. "Understanding how circuits in the brainstem and spinal cord initiate movements and how speed is controlled will open up for new research avenues aimed at developing therapeutic strategies for human neurological disorders, including traumatic spinal cord injury, and motoneuron degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)."

Reference: Song, J., Pallucchi, I., Ausborn, J., Ampatzis, K., Bertuzzi, M., Fontanel, P., Picton, L. D., & Manira, A. E. (2020). Multiple Rhythm-Generating Circuits Act in Tandem with Pacemaker Properties to Control the Start and Speed of Locomotion. Neuron, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.12.030

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In Today’s Hyper-Connected Workplace, Nearly Half of Professionals Think Vacation Is More Stressful Than It’s Worth – Yahoo Finance

January 23, 2020 medical

In a survey commissioned by Neuvana the South Florida-based neuroscience company at the intersection of wellness and technology - working professionals in the U.S. open up about the stress associated with constant connectivity in the workplace and beyond.

For professionals in corporate America, work-life balance is nearly non-existent. As a result, many find themselves in a constant state of [work] stress, with no "clocking out" in sight.

While nearly 6 in 10 working professionals work remotely once per month or more frequently, 51% of this group say working from home adds to their feelings of stress and 43% agree working from home is more stressful than working at the office. Nearly one-third of all respondents state they always work more than the hours expected of them per week, which can primarily be attributed to the stress of meeting deadlines (26%) and a desire to get ahead (26%).

A little over half feel stressed when disconnected from work-related communication while out of the office:

Leaving work emails behind at the end of the day is a thing of the past, as 61% feel pressure to respond to work-related communications outside of working hours.

While switching off the computer may have signaled the workday was done in prior years, these days, the number of communication platforms that are always on is taking its toll on corporate America.

In terms of the various communication channels used to communicate with colleagues day-to-day, 39% use 3 or 4 different platforms, with email and text topping the list, followed by personal phones and Skype. Quantity in this case is not a pro, with 47% noting that having multiple methods of communication makes it harder to focus and 43% saying multiple communication platforms often makes them feel less productive.

Think youre off the hook when you miss a work email? Not so fast. Most working professionals (82%) have been contacted by a colleague via a personal channel about a work-related matter 35% of this group say these messages come through once or more per day! Overall, 64% feel that constant work-related alerts from communication platforms adds to stress, and at the end of the day, nearly 7 in 10 would prefer to return exclusively to email for work-related communication.

While at one time a vacation or some time off was often the key to avoiding long-term burnout, the pressure of todays connected workplace has made "de-stressing" nearly impossible.

Sadly, 48% say taking time off for vacation causes more work-related stress than its worth, with 23% unable to completely disconnect from work while on vacation.

For many, taking time off presents an array of challenges such as falling behind at work (23%), the amount of work to get done prior to leaving (21%) and getting work covered by colleagues (19%).

"If todays corporate America doesnt even have time for vacation, how are we supposed to bake stress-relief into our daily lives?" says Neuvana founder and inventor, Dr. Richard Cartledge. "The last decade saw us 'busier' than ever at the expense of our health and wellness, but awareness of this problem is only the first step to changing work-life balance in the decade ahead. At Neuvana, were making it easy to add some stress-relief to your day, simply through listening to the music or podcast you already love. Xen by Neuvana was designed to electronically provide added wellness benefits, including reducing stress, and improving your mood through Vagus Nerve stimulation

For more information on Vagus Nerve stimulation and Neuvana, visit: NeuvanaLife.com.

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*This survey was fielded on January 3, 2020 and included 1,076 working professionals in the U.S. Consumer sample was provided by Pollfish.

About NeuvanaNeuvana is a South Florida-based brand at the intersection of wellness and technology, continually striving to improve peoples lives through accessible Neuroscience. Founded in 2014 by Dr. Richard Cartledge, an avid inventor and Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, the company is made up of physicians, intellectual property experts, engineers, experienced business professionals and a world-class scientific advisory board with a shared goal: a platform to make the necessary benefits of neuroscience safe, easy and accessible to everyone.

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Former Shuswap residents head to Mars habitat for brain research – Pentiction Western News

January 23, 2020 medical

When Olav Krigolson was five years old, he told his mom he was going to be an astronaut.

Turns out, he wasnt too far off.

In December, Krigolson and Kent Hecker, who both grew up in Salmon Arm, took part in a unique trip to outer space to measure how fatigue affects the brain function of astronauts. The men were part of a five-member Canadian research team taking part in a project on a Mars simulation on the Big Island of Hawaii.

The site is called the HI-SEAS or Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation and is used by space agencies.

There they donned bulky spacesuits and lived in the Hab, or Mars habitat, a golf ball-like dome, for eight days, collecting data, eating freeze-dried food and, at times during their 16-hour days, venturing outside on exploratory trips of lava flows.

So if youd told us both in high school wed get PhDs in neuroscience and be going to Mars together, we would have fallen over laughing, remarked Krigolson.

It was awesome, enthused Hecker. We got to put on space suits and explore lava caves. We reverted back to being kids again.

The purpose of the mission, which was spearheaded by Krigolson, was actually a proof of concept or test run of brain-testing software that is both mobile and fast, as opposed to a typical EEG (electroencephalogram).

It uses the commercially available Muse EEG headband which evaluates electrical activity in the brain.

Then, via software developed by Krigolsons lab at the University of Victoria, brain waves are translated into scores measuring characteristics such as fatigue.

To do that, the researchers would play simple games on an iPad three times per day to test their brain function.

Although both men have PhDs in neuroscience, Krigolson says hes really a mathematician.

I wrote the algorithm that takes the brain wave data and gives you fatigue scores, he explained.

Accompanying them were PhD students Chad Williams and Tom Ferguson, as well as Gord Binsted, Dean of the Health and Social Development Faculty at UBCO in Kelowna, who was instrumental in the mission.

Binsteds sister Kim is a professor at the University of Hawaii and runs the Mars simulation for NASA.

One highlight came about when the heating in the Hab broke down.

In order to empty the dome to facilitate the repair, the researchers were told a solar flare had occurred and they would have to go down into a lava tube to escape the radiation.

One of the students mentioned he had Star Wars, the movie, on his laptop, so there they were, in a lava tube, watching Star Wars.

Now that, I believe, is a fairly unique experience, said Krigolson.

How the Application of Neuroscience in Design Can Separate Us from Artificial Intelligence – Interior Design

January 22, 2020 medical

Intuitively, most people can see a well-designed space and say, Yes, that looks nice. But what is it that makes us respond this way? Why do some spaces appeal to our senses better than others? And in an era of artificial intelligence, how can designers tap into those sciences to design spaces that help us continue to develop our humanistic traits and skills?

Frederick Marks, president of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, shares that neuroscience is a multidisciplinary branch of biology that deals with the structure or function of the nervous system and the brain. This includes psychology, physiology, anatomy, molecular and developmental biology, neurochemistry, cytology, and mathematical modeling.

According to Marks, Neuroscience is an emerging field whose focus is primarily, because of need and available funding, on the prevention of disease and treatment. But what is being learned has potential secondary applications for design and architecture. The environments we live, work, and play in are changing our brains and our behavior all the time. As explained by one neuroscientist, while the brain controls our behavior and genes control the blueprint of our brain, our environment can modulate the function of genes and, ultimately, the structure of our brain.

Because this research shows that design plays such an active role in the continuous formation of our brain, the science behind how we respond to and interact with different environments is coming to the forefront. And its applications are fascinating. Lets take a look.

The importance of designing spaces that cater to our continued desire to learn

According to architecture, design, and planning firm Gensler, one of the keys to scientifically backed design is an understanding of how our built environment can best support cognitive development. A separate research report from the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture led by Amrita Kulkarni and Vincenzo Centinaro of Gensler Chicago suggests that creative behaviors like critical thinking, problem-solving, empathy, and emotional intelligence are foundational skills of tomorrows workforce and are traits that make us intrinsically human.

These researchers have deducted that, contrary to popular belief, learning is not a fourth work mode beyond focus, collaboration, and socialization, but instead it is a continuous path that occurs every moment during our workday. And Kulkarni and Centinaro suggest there are four distinct kinds of learning dimensions we transition to throughout the day: training-based, mentorship-based, chance-based, and platform-based.

Designing for each learning environment

Training-based learning traditionally takes place in formal or structured learning environments such as classroom settings designed for CEUs or certification. According to Kulkarni and Centinaro, designers focusing on training-based learning need to adapt their designs to prioritize cross-training and forge connections among learners. These types of learning scenarios should offer an open-concept feel, with the ability to have breakout sessions, as seen with activity-based workstations.

Contrarily, mentorship-based learning happens in more informal ways, in environments like management offices or even in cafeterias or common places. Organizations have an opportunity to amplify learning by demonstrating commitment, offering protected time, coaching on critique styles, facilitating dialogue among unexpected groups, and encouraging opinion sharing openly throughout the workplace. To facilitate this, we often see designs that prioritize water cooler conversations or spontaneous touchdowns, complete, of course, with amenities and technology like smart boards, teleconferencing capabilities to loop in remote workers, and adjustable workstations for groups to congregate as they see fit.

In chance-based learning, people learn in unplanned and unstructured ways by creatively thinking about problems they face. These creative learners often request environments filled with visualization and co-creation tools so they can problem solve wherever the creativity strikes. Again, a popular method here is activity-based workstations and unassigned seating, allowing learners to position themselves where they can collaborate best.

And lastly, in platform-based learning, curators need to boost participation through seamlessness, friendliness, persistence, and diversity in available platforms. This type of learning occurs in formal settings such as fireside chats, town halls, or even in online forums, resulting in the need for a variety of workstations, from conference rooms to even less formal settings like caf workstations or even outdoor work spaces.

Deloittes 2018 Future of Work studysuggests that 65 percent of our future jobsthose that todays primary school children will grow intodont exist yet. Because of this, Kulkarni and Centinaro suggest that skills that separate us from artificial intelligencethings like critical thinking, creative problem-solving, empathy and emotional intelligence, systemic understanding, interdisciplinary collaboration, camaraderie and fellowship, comfort with ambiguity, and iterating contextsare all foundational skills of tomorrows workforce. By fostering these skill sets through design elements that encourage learning, we can continue to nurture the very elements that make us human.

In this spirit, Marks leaves us with this prediction for the future of neuroscience and design: As knowledge grows in neuroscience and provides insight into how and why neurons fire in response to certain conditions, data also will increase relevant to the built environment. The hope is that a branch of neuroscience will emerge that is dedicated to understanding how humans interact with space and place. Designers are ultimately in the business of creating experience. The more they may know about pattern statistics and visual perception, how sound waves enter the ear, how the skin reacts to various textures and temperatures, what smells initiate pleasure, and what is retained in our collective memory, the more they will be proficient at their craft.

This article originally was published in Bellow Press and was reposted here with permissions.

Amanda Schneider is President of ThinkLab, the research division of Interior DesignMedia. At ThinkLab, we combine Interior DesignMedias incredible reach within the architecture and design community with proven market research techniques to uncover relevant trends and opportunities that connect back to brand and business goals in a thought-provoking, creative, and actionable way. Join in to know whats next at thinklab.design/join-in.

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DeepMind Discovers New Correlation Between Neuroscience and AI – Analytics Insight

January 22, 2020 medical

We usually hear a lot about human-level AI or artificial intelligence but little do we realize that the human mind and AI are actually quite interlinked. The brains neural network and artificial neural network possess some similarities between themselves. Both are trained on data, while the brain learns from real-life data and experiences involuntarily, AI neural networks are trained purposely with gathered data voluntarily. Both respond in accordance with the learnings they have received. Moreover, with the advancement in technology AI has begun to learn and evolve on its own which is quite similar to the regular evolution of the human brain.

However, they do have tons of differentiation as well, but when it comes to neuroscience and AI, they are way more connected than one could ever wonder.

AI is more linked to dopamine-reinforced learning than you may think. DeepMind AI published a blog post on their discovery that the human brain and AI learning methods are closely linked when it comes to learning through reward.

Computer scientists have developed algorithms for reinforcement learning in artificial systems. These algorithms enable AI systems to learn complex strategies without external instruction, guided instead by reward predictions.

As noted by the post, a recent development in computer science which yields significant improvements in performance on reinforcement learning problems may provide a deep, parsimonious explanation for several previously unexplained features of reward learning in the brain, and opens up new avenues of research into the brains dopamine system, with potential implications for learning and motivation disorders.

DeepMind found that dopamine neurons in the brain were each tuned to different levels of pessimism or optimism. If they were a choir, they wouldnt all be singing the same note, but harmonizing each with a consistent vocal register, like bass and soprano singers. In artificial reinforcement learning systems, this diverse tuning creates a richer training signal that greatly speeds learning in neural networks, and researchers speculate that the brain might use it for the same reason.

The existence of distributional reinforcement learning in the brain has interesting implications both for AI and neuroscience. Firstly, this discovery validates distributional reinforcement learning it gives researchers increased confidence that AI research is on the right track since this algorithm is already being used in the most intelligent entity they are aware of: the brain.

Secondly, it raises new questions for neuroscience and new insights for understanding mental health and motivation. What happens if an individuals brain listens selectively to optimistic versus pessimistic dopamine neurons? Does this give rise to impulsivity or depression? A strength of the brain is its powerful representations how are these sculpted by distributional learning? Once an animal learns about the distribution of rewards, how is that representation used downstream? How does the variability of optimism across dopamine cells relate to other known forms of diversity in the brain?

Finally, DeepMind hopes that asking and answering these questions will stimulate progress in neuroscience that will feed back to benefit AI research, completing the virtuous circle.

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UGA SGA approves proclamation asking for creation of undergraduate neuroscience major – Red and Black

January 22, 2020 medical

The first Student Government Association Senate meeting of the semester addressed a wide range of topics as senators gathered in preparation for their remaining three months in office. Senators approved a proclamation asking for the creation of a neuroscience major at the University of Georgia.

Tonight is the culmination of over a decade of work, said Sen. Max Harris, who introduced the legislation on the floor.

Proclamation 32-12 addresses the benefits of an undergraduate neuroscience major, such as an increase in grant funding to the university, which is the case for universities such as Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. A survey was created earlier in the year to determine initial student interest, Harris said.

This is an important thing for the state of Georgia as well, said Janna Jernigan, an undergraduate researcher of physiology and pharmacology.

Jernigan continued to discuss active grants available to universities with neurobiology and neurosurgery areas of study.

Sen. Selitha Haudey presented Proclamation 32-10 to support University Unions role in showing more diverse films in Tate Theater. Haudley said meetings will be held on Tuesdays where students can voice their opinions. Members voted to pass the legislation.

Next on the agenda was Proclamation 32-11, which acknowledged relief efforts for the Australian bushfires and supports students affected. Sen. Mennah Abdelwahab said there are strong connections to Australia that comprise a vital part of UGAs community.

In addition to legislation passed at Senate, executive members held their second Cabinet meeting of the semester. Madison Drummond, Alpha Smith, Grant Mitchell, Eisha Baig, Mahathi Mula, and Sam Driggers were sworn in by Treasurer Nav Singh to serve on the All Campus Allocations Committee. The committee works with Student Affairs to determine the distribution of funding for clubs and organizations on campus.

SGA members are also working to update the parking application process. Vice President Melissa Hevener said students have voiced their dissatisfaction with the current parking process. She said the current online map to determine what lot to apply for is confusing due to the map configuration and multiple color-coded keys.

I think there are ways we can modify the application so you know exactly what spot youre applying to, Hevener said.

President Rachel Byers discussed potential updates to bus signage on campus, including painting and renaming bus stops. Cabinet members worked in groups to brainstorm the most commonly used names for each bus stop.

We're going to pick your brains to make sure that we have the most accurate and reflective name as we possibly can, Byers said.

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Barry Jacobs, renowned neuroscientist and serotonin researcher, is dead at 77 – Princeton University

January 22, 2020 medical

Barry L. Jacobs, an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience who became internationally known for his research on serotonin, sleep and depression, died Friday, Jan. 10, in Princeton. He was 77 years old.

Princeton neuroscientist Barry Jacobs, seen here at his 2004 wedding, died on Jan. 10.

Jacobs joined the Princeton faculty in 1972 and transferred to emeritus status in 2017. Among his roles at the University, he served as director of the neuroscience graduate program from 1988 to 2000.

Barry Jacobs was a truly wonderful colleague brilliant, knowledgeable, interesting, generous, and always upbeat and friendly, said Ronald Comer, an emeritus member of Princetons psychology faculty. Deeply committed to his work and to all of neuroscience, he was just as interested in and curious about the work of his other psychology colleagues, including those of us in social and clinical psychology. As a result of his special accomplishments in neuroscience, multiple interests, extraordinary skills as a teacher and communicator, and contagious passion for science, Barry was able to develop and teach, for decades, one of the Universitys most successful and popular courses, The Brain: A Users Guide a course that brought the wonders of neuroscience to life for University students of all concentrations and interests.

Jacobs was born Feb. 26, 1942, in Chicago. He received his B.S. in economics from the University of Illinois-Chicago, in 1966, and his doctorate in psychology from the University of California-Los Angeles in 1971. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the psychiatry department at Stanford University Medical School before coming to Princeton.

Jacobs was passionate to understand more about the brain, in areas from serotonin to sleep to psychoactive drugs. The author or editor of six books and many articles in top scientific journals, Jacobs central interests were in the chemicals that communicate from neuron to neuron and their role in physiology, behavior and pain as well as how biological factors, drugs and stress affect the production of new brain cells.

Jacobs, seen here in 1983 with a model of the brain, was an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience.

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Jacobs was a member of several professional societies and served on editorial boards of some half-dozen neuroscience journals. He also participated in review panels for federal and non-federal organizations, including for the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Alliance for Autism Research.

Barry cared very much about making neuroscience accessible to everybody, regardless of age, background and education, said University Provost Deborah Prentice, who chaired the psychology department from 2002 to 2014. That was the goal of his signature course, The Brain: A Users Guide. He offered that course every year on campus and made the material available to alumni and adult learners in many other venues. Barry had a special affection for community auditors: He loved having them in his courses and loved being one he audited many courses at the University himself. For Barry, teaching and learning were more than a vocation; they were a passion.

In 2012, Jacobs advisee Nathaniel Fleming became valedictorian of Princetons graduating class. From an academic standpoint, I was always struck by Barry's curiosity, creativity and imagination, said Fleming, who is now a neurology resident at the University of California-San Franciscos Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Most importantly, his warmth and kindness were second to none.

Jacobs had a gift for maintaining long friendships, said Charles Al Sorenson, who met Jacobs in graduate school and who is now an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience at Amherst College. "Barry and I remained good friends after he moved on to his career at Princeton, and because I was so impressed with his scientific acumen, I recommended to some of my very best students at Amherst College that they pursue graduate research in neuroscience under Barry's tutelage, Sorenson said. I would not have done this if Barry also were not a wonderful person, who would keep his students welfare uppermost in his thinking.

Many of Jacobs colleagues praised his commitment to his students: They loved him and he loved them, said Joel Cooper, a professor of psychology at Princeton and Jacobs friend for more than 40 years. He would do anything for his students, and the feeling was reciprocated. His relationship with his graduate and postdoctoral students was lifelong. Barry was a model of how to transform students into professionals and then have them remain lifelong friends and colleagues.

Over his long career, Jacobs worked with hundreds of undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Jon Horvitz was one of the many who came to Princeton specifically to work with him. I first met Barry in his office early in 1991 to talk about the possibility of my working with him as a postdoc, said Horvitz, now a psychology professor at the City College of New York and the co-author of Jacobs upcoming textbook, "The Brain Toolbox."

Within two minutes of speaking together, I knew that I had found my ideal mentor smart, easygoing, quick to smile and laugh, bright in his disposition," said Horvitz. "He supported me every step of the way, always providing help and resources, encouragement, discussion. Almost 30 years have passed, and he has remained a wonderful friend and kindred spirit.

Jacobs is survived by his wife, Susyn Suzie Berger, and his nieces, nephews and their children.

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Neuroscience Market interpreted by a new report | GE Healthcare NeuroNexus Siemens Healthineers Mightex Bioscience Thomas RECORDING GmbH Noldus…

January 22, 2020 medical

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Whole Brain ImagingNeuro-MicroscopyElectrophysiology TechnologiesNeuro-Cellular ManipulationStereotaxic SurgeriesAnimal BehaviorOther

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HospitalsDiagnostic LaboratoriesResearch InstitutesOther

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North America (United States, Canada, Mexico)

Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia)

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Neuroscience

The clock is ticking and the time to green our labs is now! – The Irish Times

January 22, 2020 medical

What is the main area of research in neuroscience?

I am interested in brain cells that become damaged during the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis. I am currently the lead PI (principal investigator) and co-ordinator of a 3.9 million EU-funded Innovative Training Network, which aims to develop a novel device for treating the late, progressive phase of MS.

The consortium will train 15 PhD students based in eight countries across Europe and five of these students are based in Cram, the SFI-funded Centre for Research on Medical Devices at NUI Galway.

You also lead the Galway Green Labs initiative how did you develop an interest in the environmental impact of labs?

I was inspired by a book that I read in 2018 called No. More. Plastic. by Martin Dorey. I immediately changed my shopping habits, I bought keep cups, reusable water bottles and life-long shopping bags. That was all very well, but once I walked through the labs at work, alarm bells started ringing, as I was witnessing and contributing to the wholesale disposal of large volumes of laboratory plastics on a daily basis.

What did you do next?

After doing some digging online, I discovered disturbing statistics about the impact of lab activities on the environment. For example, while the average Irish person generates 61kg of plastic per year, a study completed in the University of Exeter estimated that the average bench scientist generates around 1,000kg of plastic per year. In addition, labs can use 10 times more energy than office spaces.

How did you start to make your own lab greener?

By far the best road map that I found for implementing green lab practices is produced by mygreenlab.org a non-profit company whose mission is to create a culture of sustainability through science.

Its CEO, Allison Paradise, is a neuroscientist who left the lab in 2013 in order to set up the non-profit. She is an inspiring leader. One statistic she explained stuck out for me, which is that if just 2 per cent of lab plastics were diverted from landfill, it would offset carbon emissions equivalent to the planting of 100 million acres of rainforest. We found the Green Lab Certification programme run by MyGreenLab to be a great tool for defining and improving laboratory practices.

What practical steps were involved?

We registered our lab with MyGreenLab, which involved answering around 200 questions, covering 10 different aspects of lab activities: energy, water, lighting, waste, green chemistry, transport, recycling, cold storage, autoclaves and purchasing.

The lab was given an initial rating and, over the following six to eight months, our researchers and facilities managers collaborated with staff in MyGreenLab to improve scores and embed green lab practices within the workplace.

We were over the moon when we heard that our final rating was in the top-scoring band of green. On November 7th, the same day that I gave a talk about green labs at the Science Foundation Ireland Summit, our Cram lab at NUIG became the first lab in Europe to be Green Lab certified.

Congratulations! What would you say to others who are alarmed by the rising tide of single-use plastics and other consumables in the lab?

The clock is ticking and the time to green our labs is now! We hope to roll out the initiative across Ireland we have many labs across third-level institutions, public sector bodies, State and hospital facilities, and I think lab users and funders can play a huge role in making them greener.

To this end, I was delighted to have recently been invited to chair the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland working group that is focusing on greening public sector labs.

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The clock is ticking and the time to green our labs is now! - The Irish Times