November 8, 2018

Columbia-led Team Receives $16.75M from BRAIN Initiative in Effort to Build Blueprint of Brain’s Visual System

The world-class consortium of scientists from labs across Columbia and the U.S. hopes their work can serve as a paradigm for mapping other brain structures, thus bringing us closer to a true, detailed understanding of the brain.
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November 1, 2018

Election Day: The Brain Science of Making Decisions

Michael Shadlen, a neuroscientist at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, studies decisions. He's discovered that when choosing which candidate to vote for, your brain secretly does math.
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October 25, 2018

How Columbia University is Untangling Alzheimer’s Disease

Meet the Zuckerman Institute scientists leveraging technological advances to reveal aspects of Alzheimer’s disease long hidden from view, and discover how Columbia is committed to untangling the disease.
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October 23, 2018

How to Reverse Memory Loss in Old Mice

A team of Columbia researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, reveal new details of how a naturally occurring hormone can boost memory in aging mice, laying the groundwork for staving off this form of memory loss in people.
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October 16, 2018

Columbia Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste Awarded Eliasson Global Leadership Prize

Yuste, the director of the Neuro Technology Center and co-director of the Kavli Institute of Brain Science, has pioneered the development and application of optical methods to understand how neural circuits in the cerebral cortex work.
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