{"id":5704,"date":"2022-10-28T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:56:59","slug":"dr-timothy-spellman-appears-in-uconn-healths-the-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2022\/10\/28\/dr-timothy-spellman-appears-in-uconn-healths-the-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Timothy Spellman appears in UConn Health&#8217;s &#8220;The Pulse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Science in Seconds: Attention-Grabbing Brain Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientist <strong>Timothy Spellman <\/strong>is focusing his attention on attention \u2013 and why it\u2019s disrupted in a wide range of psychiatric and neurological diseases from schizophrenia to Alzheimer\u2019s. His lab is using new experimental techniques that he designed to study the part of the brain that controls attention. By learning more about how the neural circuitry works in the prefrontal cortex, he hopes to develop treatments that will tame the disruptions. <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001N0xM-Mx0bDodOAIZP5oXhI3UsOm89xHFzaItCUKspRoJwzGtdIGyjFs8QG9eeEB6zcY_fJHgJH8nX4HCrDrTYkXIBoLFgHYMkQx38TBfbWl1lPKJakdCShqb-IkCQxYFKKzayiva5rnz7R8j66ZZEuNpv-Af3n1wmFk3ZAkmOIcu7-0xugAVkLKcv-YXwbZaY2Ponmj_wA3ZItFiaz2OYrC_cW8J8NvUptqCWo-kEsk=&amp;c=y1vHvyW1qPzTNlSAYFHRaVysbPWyVoLIX1lXVnT9Z7SsoULx9xMWLg==&amp;ch=WEmFbp9jtj9u5WFMDuFcjknKyFcmRs3k74q9wD6V4QvB5YtZxuwUrQ==__;!!Cn_UX_p3!gdZzjGzlAwfecaGssdgCM7BXqlVTxq96hjJPxg4NQmPTon-Ek76DqUmG2ie3LfphKJ0_3Qq-RNcx28nnEB8$\"><strong>Learn more in our latest &#8220;Science in Seconds&#8221; video.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2022\/10\/Spellman-Pulse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2022\/10\/Spellman-Pulse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5706 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 278px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 278\/184;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2022\/10\/Spellman-Pulse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5706\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science in Seconds: Attention-Grabbing Brain Research Neuroscientist Timothy Spellman is focusing his attention on attention \u2013 and why it\u2019s disrupted in a wide range of psychiatric and neurological diseases from schizophrenia to Alzheimer\u2019s. His lab is using new experimental techniques that he designed to study the part of the brain that controls attention. By learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":5706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 23:25:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}