Neuroscience in Biological News

NYC science symposium marks Gruber Prize program 10th anniversary

... York City. The 2009 Gruber Genetics Prize and neuroscience Prize recipients will be announced live at the ... Solomon Snyder, professor in the Department of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, whose ... in 2001, the Women Rights Prize in 2003, and the neuroscience Prize in 2004. The Program honors ...

MIT: Making waves in the brain

... says Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of neuroscience and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute ... Christopher Moore, associate professor of neuroscience and an investigator in the McGovern Institute. In ... new approach required a merger of expertise from neuroscience and molecular genetics, three different ...

Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound

... study in the latest issue of European Journal of neuroscience , an interdisciplinary Northwestern research team ... of Music, Strait does research in the Auditory neuroscience Laboratory directed by neuroscientist Nina Kraus. ... professor of music cognition; and Auditory neuroscience Laboratory manager Erika Skoe co-authored the ...

Study first to pinpoint why analgesic drugs may be less potent in females than in males

... -- Investigators at Georgia State University's neuroscience Institute and Center for Behavioral neuroscience are the first to identify the most likely reason ... Anne Murphy, Ph.D., a Georgia State Professor of neuroscience and member of the Center for Behavioral ...

Neuroinformatics special issue spotlights the Neuroscience Information Framework

... journal Neuroinformatics describes the new neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), a dynamic inventory ... the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for neuroscience Research, the NIF will advance neuroscience research by enabling discovery and access to ...

LSUHSC research identifies key contributor to Alzheimer's disease process

... Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Associate Professor of neuroscience and Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center ... lab at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans neuroscience Center of Excellence has shown that this tiny ... 16 million by mid-century. "The goal of these neuroscience research studies is to further our understanding ...

Caltech-led researchers find negative cues from appearance alone matter for real elections

... in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective neuroscience ( http://scan.oxfordjournals.org ) on October ... This finding fits with prior studies in cognitive neuroscience as well as in political theory. "The results ... Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and neuroscience and professor of biology at Caltech, and director ...

NARSAD announces 2008 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Research on Mental Health Disorders

... -- among the most coveted in psychiatry and neuroscience to six prominent scientists whose research in ... and depression, childhood disorders and cognitive neuroscience have led to significant strides in the ... Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive neuroscience will be awarded to Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., ...

Penn announces $50M Penn Integrates Knowledge neurosciences initiative

... start-up funds for each PIK professorship in neuroscience and will support interdisciplinary neuroscience initiatives involving the School of Medicine and ... This new $50 million Penn Integrates Knowledge neuroscience Initiative is in addition to several ...

Stroke and SIDS in Alaska topics of neuroscience conference

... findings at the 7th Conference of the Specialized neuroscience Research Programs in New York Aug. 19-22, 2008. The scientists are part of the Alaska Basic neuroscience Program at the UAF Institute of Arctic Biology, ... SNRP whose goal is to expand and stimulate basic neuroscience research at UAF with a focus on neuroprotection ...

Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga awarded Humboldt Prize

... contributions as the founder of the cognitive neuroscience field." The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ... is also principal investigator of the Law and neuroscience Project, the first systematic effort to bridge ... Neuroscience, president of the Cognitive neuroscience Institute, and is a member of the President's ...

Learning and the brain

... by Kenneth S. Kosik, co-director of the neuroscience Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Harriman Professor of neuroscience Research, along with Anne Rosenfeld and Kelly ... learning, IQ, and achievement in all learners. neuroscience has the potential to transform education, said ...

Children with gene show reduced cognitive function

... Results of the study, presented today at neuroscience 2007, the 37th annual meeting of the Society for neuroscience in San Diego, suggest that changes predisposing a ... Raber, Ph.D., associate professor of behavioral neuroscience and neurology in the OHSU School of Medicine. ...

Shigetada Nakanishi receives $500,000 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

... Today at 2.30 pm he will receive the Gruber neuroscience Prize at the Society for neuroscience conference in San Diego. In the 2007 Gruber ... the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. The neuroscience Prize honors leading scientists for distinguished ...

Phase 2 of Singapore's Biomedical Sciences Initiative gains momentum for clinical research

... A new partnership to build an integrated neuroscience research programme that spans basic science all ... Secretary of the Ministry of Health (MOH). neuroscience Research Partnership forged between A*STAR and ... (GMS) to develop an integrated multidisciplinary neuroscience research programme with a strong focus on ...

NARSAD presents 2007 prizes for outstanding achievement in neuroscience and psychiatric research

... Quarton Distinguished University Professor of neuroscience and Psychiatry and co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan. Dr. Akil ... contributions to cognitive and systems neuroscience by powerfully advancing our knowledge of the ...

22nd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Sept. 12-16, 2009, Turkey

... is dedicated to the progressive integration of basic research, clinical neuroscience and medical practice, which can guide advances in neuropsychopharmacology ... disorders, schizophrenia, drugs & addiction, brain plasticity, basic neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Great emphasis will be put on clear take-home ...

Not 1, but 2 kinds of males found in the invasive round goby

... lead author and a Ph.D. student in the department of Psychology, neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University. "This has the potential to have a ... says Sigal Balshine, associate professor in the department of Psychology, neuroscience & Behaviour and academic advisor on the study. "Our results will shed ...

Brain-computer interface, developed at Brown, begins new clinical trial

... in the laboratory of John Donoghue, the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of neuroscience at Brown and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. Arto ... disconnected from the brain due to paralysis, and further expanding the neuroscience underlying the field of intracortical neurotechnology. The research is ...

Neuroscientists discover long-term potentiation in the olfactory bulb

... CLEVELAND May 3, 2009 Ben W. Strowbridge, Ph.D, associate professor of neuroscience and Physiology/Biophysics, and Yuan Gao, a Ph.D. student in the ... rat olfactory bulb" will be published in the June 2009 issue of Nature neuroscience and is currently available online. In the 1970s, scientists discovered ...

Scientists shed light on inner workings of human embryonic stem cells

... & Developmental Biology. Kosik is also co-director and Harriman Chair in neuroscience Research of UCSB's neuroscience Research Institute. "The beauty and elegance of stem cells is that they ...

Phasic firing of dopamine neurons is key to brain's prediction of rewards

... Sciences ' online Early Edition. Carlos Paladini, assistant professor of neuroscience at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and UTSA graduate student ... is regulated or gated," said Lobb, who is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in neuroscience at UTSA. ...

Fetal alcohol syndrome testing expands

... are highlighted today in an on-line article in the European Journal of neuroscience . "This is a most original finding, with clear clinical application," ... function. In collaboration with Doug Munoz, director of Queen's Centre for neuroscience Studies, they are using the university's functional MRI (magnetic ...

Lehigh researcher awarded $1.8 million NIH grant

... BETHLEHEM, PA, March 17, 2009 -- Lehigh University assistant professor of neuroscience Michael Burger has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National ... systems. Burger first began studying hearing at a bat auditory neuroscience lab while a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin and later ...

New and unexpected mechanism identified how the brain responds to stress

... finding is being published in the March 1st online edition of Nature neuroscience . Normally, neurons receive different chemical signals that tell them ... says Yves De Koninck, PhD, president-elect of the Canadian Association for neuroscience and professor of Psychiatry at Laval University. "I was fascinated ...

Springer to publish Neurotoxicity Research

... official journal of the Neurotoxicity Society. The journal is aimed at neuroscience researchers and neurologists. "I am proud to welcome Neurotoxicity Research to our program," said Matthew Giampoala, Editor of neuroscience and Physiology at Springer. "In working together with the Neurotoxicity ...

Mayo: Variants in gene on X chromosome associated with increased susceptibility to Alzheimer's

... at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida and George M. Eisenberg, Professor of neuroscience in the College of Medicine. "The results obtained do not imply that women ... Alzheimer's disease gene," says Minerva Carrasquillo, Ph.D., instructor of neuroscience and first author of the study. "The search for genes that influence the ...

Bright lights, not-so-big pupils

... is, 'How do they work?'" says Michael Do, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience at Hopkins. "We want to understand some fundamental information, like ... ability to capture photons," says King-Wai Yau, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience at Hopkins. When they did the calculations, the research team found that ...

Social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain, and vice versa

... one that is gaining strength, said University of Illinois entomology and neuroscience professor Gene Robinson, lead author of a review on the subject this week ... professor Russell Fernald and Illinois cell and developmental biology and neuroscience professor David Clayton are co-authors. Genes in the brain are ...

How do race, genetics and health-care disparities affect spread of HIV?

... Cancer Institute, the UCLA AIDS Institute, and the Semel Institute for neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, will address the ways in which genetics, race ... of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA WHEN: 10:30 a.m.��:15 ...

Entomological Society of America names new Fellows for 2008

... Science and Letters. He has served as president of the Association of neuroscience Departments and Programs, the International Society for Neuroethology, the ... Chemoreception Science, and he has served as an officer of the Society for neuroscience and the International Brain Research Organization. He is an elected fellow ...

Chronic exposure to estrogen impairs some cognitive functions

... found. Their report appears this week in the journal Behavioral neuroscience . The researchers made the discovery when studying the effects of ... are definitely a lot more active and make a lot more lever presses," said neuroscience graduate student Victor Wang, the lead author on the study. "That's not ...

N.Y. research team discovers how antidepressants and cocaine interact with brain cell targets

... in the brain. A second study, published in the latest issue of Nature neuroscience , pinpoints where the drug molecules bind in the neurotransmitter ... author of the Molecular Cell study and contributing author to the Nature neuroscience study, and professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology in the Center for ...

Study identifies brain pathway that shuts down seizures

... that provided the key to the UI discovery, which is reported in Nature neuroscience Advance Online Publication on June 8. "We found that ASIC1a does not ... findings to treatments." Ziemann noted that a particular strength of neuroscience research at the UI is the close interaction between faculty doing ...

Brown to host conference on advances in neurotechnology

... isn't science fiction it's here today," says John Donoghue, professor of neuroscience and engineering and director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. ... We need to study the whole brain. I believe by connecting and coordinating neuroscience research across federal agencies, eliminating duplication and creating ...

Names of inaugural Kavli Prize winners revealed

... who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar ... so small that electron motion is confined to zero or one dimension. The neuroscience prize goes to three scientists who collectively have deciphered the basic ...

Gene mutations in mice mimic human-like sleep disorder, UT Southwestern researchers find

... sleep-disturbance mutations, said Dr. Rolf Joho, associate professor of neuroscience and senior author of the paper, which appears online today and in the May 21 issue of The Journal of neuroscience . The mice sleep half as much as normal mice. The mutant mice appeared ...

National scientific meeting on child mental health at Kentucky

... (CSVAC) will host national experts at the scientific meeting "From neuroscience to Social Practice: Translational Research on Violence Against Children." ... of Psychiatry, describes Perry as moving toward the translation of neuroscience into clinical practice. Perry is encouraging the use of clinical practices ...

Weill Cornell team discovers how brain's own tPA helps regulate blood flow to neurons

... Iadecola, the George C. Cotzias Distinguished Professor of Neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, and chief of the Division of ... 'eats up' clots," notes study lead author Dr. Laibaik Park, instructor in neuroscience at Weill Cornell. For that reason, doctors often administer a shot of tPA ...

New treatment mechanisms for schizophrenia

... of translational neuroscience, i.e., the steps whereby basic molecular neuroscience leads to fundamental new mechanisms that can be tested in animal and human ... the embedding of clinical research within the framework of translational neuroscience increases the likelihood that one or another of these mechanisms might ...