A huge congratulations to our colleague Stephen Grossberg for the coveted award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists. The Society of Experimental Psychologists gave its 2015 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Stephen Grossberg, Wang professor of cognitive and neural systems and professor of mathematics and psychology, for his pioneering theoretical research on how brains […]
Another great acknowledgment of outstanding accomplishment for our dear colleague Nancy Kopell comes from Israel Brain Technologies. Nancy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society, a distinction given to only one or two mathematicians each year. She is a recipient of a MacArthur […]
Tau’s Role in Neurodegeneration Microglia and exosome-mediated spread of pathogenic tau in Alzheimer’s disease Our study suggests that microglial uptake and spreading of tau protein may play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects more than 5.3 million people in the United States. The average life expectancy is […]
Congratulations to Maya in her selection to receive the SFN 2014 Graduate Student Travel Award. She is one of about 30 awardees in the nation!!
Congratulations to Samantha Michalka of the Somers Lab for winning first prize and Maripierre Payen Surpris of the Chen lab for second prize representing Graduate Program for Neuroscience at the MED campus!
Dr. Shelley Russek will represent GPN as a member of the Committee on Neuroscience Departments and Programs (CNDP) for the Society for Neuroscience. The mission of the CNDP is to enhance the value SfN provides to its individual and Institutional Program (IP) members (neuroscience departments and programs) through programs and initiatives that offer opportunities for professional […]
Diving Bell flyer Science on Screen Presents: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with cognitive and computational neuroscientist Frank Guenther April 22 at 7:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline In 1995, at age 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the successful and charismatic editor of Elle France magazine, suffered a massive stroke that left him with a rare condition […]