neuroscientist
neuroscientist — noun
1. A scientist whose work involves understanding how the brain and nervous system o
A scientist whose work involves understanding how the brain and nervous system operate — including how they control thoughts, movements, emotions, and other body functions.
Dr. Kemi Adegoke, a neuroscientist at the university, studies how sleep affects memory.
collocation: neuroscientist at [institution]
The neuroscientist used a special scanner to watch which parts of the brain lit up when people heard music.
collocation: parts of the brain
Gabriela became a neuroscientist after her grandmother had a stroke and needed speech therapy.
A team of neuroscientists found that learning a language changes the brain's structure over time.
- brain scientist
less formal, everyday term
- neurobiologist
more specific; focuses on the biology of nerve cells at a cellular or molecular level
用法筆記
Unlike a neurologist, who is a medical doctor treating patients with nervous-system diseases, a neuroscientist is a researcher who studies the brain and nervous system in a laboratory or academic setting.