Congratulations to Erin!
Erin Sundermann was recently awarded a predoctoral trianing grant to study "Genetic Predictors of Cognition in HIV+ Women" with Pauline Maki and Jeff Bishop from NIMH. Scored in the first percentile, the award is a tremendous acheivement!....
Congratulations to Mitch F. Roitman
Mitch Roitman was awarded a two-year young investigator grant from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia, Anxiety & Depression. His grant project entitled"Ketamine, phasic dopamine and prediction error" will explore dynamic changes in dopamine release from the nucleus accumbens in the....
Director Ragozzino
Congratulations to Mike Ragozzino on being named the new director for the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience!....
Women, Menopause & Sex
Dr. Pauline Maki was on the health section of ABC News on Sept. 25th describing the latest findings on estrogen replacement therapy effects on cognition and sex. The video can be seen at http://abcnews.go.com/health. Choose the women, menopause and sex video in the right hand corner.....
New Grant Funding
Mike Ragozzino, in collaboration with Dr. John Sweeney and Dr. Ed Cook in Psychiatry received one of five center grants to understand cognitive flexibility in autism spectrum disorder....
Counting Brain Cells: From Archimedes to Jamie Roitman
Jamie Roitman's work on neural correlates of numerical cognition was recently published in PLoS Biology (www.plosbiology.org) and is highlighted in the most recent issue of Scientific American Online (www.sciam.com). Check it out!....
Undergraduate Research Award
Vladamir Dmitiriyev along with Maria Gomez, Arthur Hong and Azhar Kothawala received 2nd Prize at the 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium for their work on understanding the neural circuitry underlying conditioned turning behavior. This research was conducted in R. David Wirtshafter's labo....
Christopher B. Keys Early Research Award
Justin St. Andre was the first receipent of the Christopher B. Keys early research award for his outstanding and innovative project examining the role amygdala subregions in conditioned taste aversion.....
Reilly Research Feature
Steve Reilly's research on conditioned taste aversion is featured this month on Conditioned Taste Aversion Website: http://www.ctalearning.com/highlights.asp. Congratulations Stephen!....
Congratulations to McCool
Martha McCool successfully defended her master's thesis on Wednesday, Sept. 6th. Her project was entitled, "The Role of M1 Muscarinic Cholinergic Receptors in the Dorsomedial Striatum on Strategy Switching".....
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