The Brain Science of Baseball
Daniel Wolpert, a neuroscientist at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, is uncovering the connections between body and brain that make the physical feats of baseball possible.
How the Brain Dials Up the Volume to Hear Someone in a Crowd
The Columbia-led study offers new insight into the organization of the brain’s listening center and provides a roadmap for the development of hearing-aid technologies inspired by the brain.
Columbia Scientists Reverse Core Symptom of Schizophrenia in Adult Mice
These findings hold immense promise and reveal a potential new strategy for treating the more than 21 million people worldwide already diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Columbia Scientists Demonstrate Power of High-Speed Microscope to Illuminate Biology at the Speed of Life
The team behind the revolutionary 3D SCAPE microscope announced a new version of the high-speed imaging technology; it promises to impact fields as wide-ranging as genetics, cardiology, and neuroscience.
Anthony Fitzpatrick Receives $2.84M to Decipher Origins of Brain Disorders
The funding will support research that lays the groundwork for detecting and treating the underlying causes of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lewy body dementia.