The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awarded Assistant Professor Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, who has a joint appointment at CAS (Psychological & Brain Sciences) and MED, an honorable mention for its 2022 Freedman Prize, which recognizes exceptional research in mental illness. Professor Chandrasekaran seeks to understand the decision-making areas of the monkey brain by recording the brains of macaque monkeys while they perform perform sophisticated cognitive tasks in hopes of guiding the development of new therapies and drugs for mental illness.
Robert Reinhart, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, won the top honor in the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation this year. As grand prize winner, Professor Reinhart received $25,000 and publication of his winning essay on noninvasive neuromodulation efforts, “Synchronizing neural rhythms,” in Science.