neurobiologist
2
6.7
- noun
- /ˌnjʊəroʊbaɪˈɒlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
:
neurobiologo
- Neurobiologists believe that habituation is the most common form of learning.
- neurobiologist at University
- neurobiologists study
I will always remember something that Candace Pert, the great neurobiologist, once said.
- I will always remember something that Candace Pert, the great neurobiologist, once said.
- In fact, if you ask a neurobiologist what the role of the microbiome is, they'll tell you almost certainly that it's there to impact brain function.
- He's basically, no, it's a neurobiologist.
- And so I'm in the camp of which some neurobiologists are, but not all this is still far from being, you know, settled.
Examples
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Neurobiologists have identified several structures in the songbird brain that are important to the production and learning of song.
Academic text (1994) -
Neurobiologists and psychologists are intrigued by the mental asymmetries of persons with Williams syndrome.
Academic text (1996) -
Neurobiologist William N. Frost and colleagues at the Chicago Medical School have shown how that happens.
Academic text (2009) -
You ought to talk with Stephan, a neurobiologist working on how the brain affects obesity.
Blog text (28) -
Studies of song have led a diverse group of neurobiologists to discover several intriguing properties of the songbird brain.
Academic text (1994) -
Doug Escobar, for example, is a neurobiologist who'd recently been awarded a MacArthur grant to support his work on spinal fluid: brilliant fellow.
Fiction book (1998) -
David Anderson is a neurobiologist at Caltech who studies aggression in animals.
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You ought to talk with Stephan, a neurobiologist working on how the brain affects obesity.
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If you talk to any good neurobiologist, they will tell you that the brain craves novelty.
Synonyms
17
5.5
A scientist who studies the brain and nervous system
1
7.9
A doctor or scientist who studies the nervous system by checking its electrical signals
How Specialized
- Specialized
1
6.3
17
5.5
- Specialized
2
6.7
111
3.5
∞
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
neurobiologist = neurobiology (semi-transparent) = neuro + bio + logy + ist
The agentive suffix '-ist' is clear, but the base 'neurobiology' is a specialized scientific term, so the meaning is only partly recoverable for an average learner.
Etymology
Neurobiologist comes from neuro- meaning 'nerve', as in neuron, and biologist, meaning 'a scientist who studies life'. So a neurobiologist is a scientist who studies the nervous system and how nerves help the brain and body work.