{"id":4023,"date":"2009-07-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/tibetan-monks-and-neurons-in-action\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:38:45","slug":"tibetan-monks-and-neurons-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/tibetan-monks-and-neurons-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan monks and nuns in India learn neuroscience by using Ann Stuart&#8217;s Neurons in Action software and tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table style=\"width: 843px;height: 171px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666666\" title=\"monks1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/734\/2018\/06\/image.x-ms-bmp\" alt=\"monks1\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3272\"><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666666\" title=\"monks2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/734\/2018\/06\/image.x-ms-bmp\" alt=\"monks2\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3272\"><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666666\" title=\"monks3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/734\/2018\/06\/image.x-ms-bmp\" alt=\"monks3\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3272\"><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666666\" title=\"monks4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cellbiophysio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/734\/2018\/06\/image.x-ms-bmp\" alt=\"monks4\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3272\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><i>July 2009<\/i> \u2013 Tibetan monks and nuns in Dharamsala, India, recently used <a href=\"http:\/\/neuronsinaction.com\/home\/main\">Neurons in Action 2<\/a>, co-authored by <a href=\"\/cellbiophysio\/faculty-old\/stuart\">Professor Ann Stuart<\/a> and Duke Professor Emeritus John Moore, to learn neurophysiology in a course taught by Emory professors (the Emory Tibet Science Initiative). One of the professors, Dieter Jaeger, wrote \u201cNIA2 was a big success with the monks and nuns\u2026Some monks took it home to their monastery so there is no telling how big a hit it will be!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dalai Lama has long advocated that science, especially neuroscience, be taught in Tibetan monasteries and schools in exile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/30\/science\/30monks.html?_r=1&amp;ref=science\">Read more about the initiative in the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2009 \u2013 Tibetan monks and nuns in Dharamsala, India, recently used Neurons in Action 2, co-authored by Professor Ann Stuart and Duke Professor Emeritus John Moore, to learn neurophysiology in a course taught by Emory professors (the Emory Tibet Science Initiative). 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