The clawed toad Xenopus laevis is a common experimental animal used in many disciplines of life sciences, such as integrative, developmental and molecular biology or experimental medicine.
The overlapping petals of the Neonatal Integrative Developmental Care (IDC) model IDC model demonstrate the integrative nature of neuroprotective care (Fig. 1).
Utilizing the Neonatal Integrative Developmental Care Model as a framework, Mercy identified specific goals and aim statements within each of the model's seven core measures (Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews. 2013 13:9–2013 13
The Wee Care Neuroprotective NICU program is based on a recently developed Neonatal Integrative Developmental Care Model (© Koninklijke Philips N.V., 2014. All rights reserved).), which utilizes a holistic approach in describing seven core measures for neuroprotective family-centered developmental care of premature neonates of the lotus flower.
We don't yet know what the most efficient path to powerful AGI will be, but as a researcher, my bet is on an integrative and developmental approach.
This developmental integrative dynamic validates the "motor theory of speech perception".
Telomere attrition during development is emerging as a useful integrative marker of developmental stress exposure in birds (Boonekamp, Mulder, Salomons, Dijkstra, & Verhulst, 2014; Herborn et al., 2014; Nettle, Monaghan, Boner, Gillespie, & Bateson, 2013), and it was a key predictor of adult cognition in a previous study (Bateson et al., 2015).
Schizophrenia is a complex and devastating neuropsychiatric disease thought to result from impaired connectivity between several integrative regions, stemming from developmental failures.
At last week's annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, developmental biologists reported that restoring the function of only one gene can make a python begin to grow its hind legs again.
The integrative field of evolutionary developmental biology, or "evo-devo," enhances our understanding of evolution.
In a recent study in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris (Bateson, Brilot, Gillespie, Monaghan, & Nettle, 2015), we found that birds that had experienced more developmental telomere attrition (an integrative measure of developmental stress) had a stronger preference for immediate over delayed rewards as adults.
