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.
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.
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.
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.
By determining the molecular signatures of Alzheimer’s, CTE, and other conditions, the research team will pave the way for treatments that target hallmarks of neurodegenerative disease.