Publications by authors named "D Geller Leopold"
The macaque cerebral cortex contains concentrations of neurons that prefer faces over inanimate objects. Although these so-called face patches are thought to be specialized for the analysis of facial signals, their exact tuning properties remain unclear. For example, what happens when an object by chance resembles a face? Everyday objects can sometimes, through the accidental positioning of their internal components, appear as faces.
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- The conservation community is focusing on recovering species at risk of extinction, particularly in Maui, by implementing climate-resilient recovery plans for 36 native plant species.
- A tailored spatial conservation prioritization (SCP) approach was developed, emphasizing transparency, flexibility, and expert engagement, consisting of generating multiple prioritization solutions and selecting the best based on expert-agreed criteria.
- This method reduced the necessary conservation area by 36% while still ensuring high-quality habitats for species, proving more effective than existing tools like prioritizr by enhancing local recovery planning efforts.
The brain helps us survive by forming internal representations of the external world. Excitatory cortical neurons are often precisely tuned to specific external stimuli. However, inhibitory neurons, such as parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons, are generally less selective.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: In 2022, the US House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution (House of Representatives Resolution 1118 at the 117th Congress [2021-2022]) calling for meaningful nutrition education for medical trainees. This was prompted by increasing health care spending attributed to the growing prevalence of nutrition-related diseases and the substantial federal funding via Medicare that supports graduate medical education. In March 2023, medical education professional organizations agreed to identify nutrition competencies for medical education.
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- Recent research has created normative growth charts for the brain structure of rhesus macaques, filling a gap in understanding nonhuman primate neurodevelopment.
- The study analyzed 1,522 MRI scans from 1,024 macaques to identify developmental patterns in brain volume, cortical thickness, and surface area throughout their lifespan.
- These findings not only highlight key milestones in macaque brain development but also allow for meaningful comparisons to human brain maturation, providing a valuable resource for future neuroscience studies.