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Assistant professor discusses diversifying faculty hiring, public engagement

Cornelia “Cori” Bargmann, PhD, of The Rockefeller University, and Gerald “Gerry” Rubin, PhD, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, have been awarded the 2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. The award recognizes their pioneering work in elucidating the organization of circuits in behavior, and for their work in developing new genetics tools, which have advanced the entire field of neuroscience.

Dana Foundation leader shares Dana's new focus, funding priorities

For Brain Awareness Week 2018, scientists from the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies organized an interactive exhibit “Race Your Brain!” as a platform for the community to learn about how sensory information is used to control behavior. The main eve...

Editors from Science magazine will provide an overview of how to get published in Science. They will walk through the process of submitting a paper, and then provide an overview of the review process, and finally publication. Any scientist interested in being published in Science should plan to attend. CONTACT: Amanda Donathen Phone: (202) 326-6669 Fax: (202) 898-7825 E-mail: adonathe@aaas.org URL: www.scienceonline.org.

How do we empathize with others’ pain? According to mirror-matching resonance models of empathy, the observation of others’ motor, sensory or affective states automatically activates corresponding representations in the observer (Preston, de Waal, 2002, Behav. Brain. Sci., 25, 1-72). A recent fMRI study has reported that anterior insular and cingulate cortex, that are part of the affective division of the pain network, were activated not only during pain perception but also during imagery of others pain (Singer et al., 2004, Science, 303, 1157-62). Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation we explored changes of cortico-spinal motor representations of hand muscles during the mere observation of needles entering hands, feets or non-corporeal objects. We found a highly specific inhibition of motor evoked potentials recorded from the pricked hand muscle similar to what reported during actual delivery of nociceptive stimuli (Valeriani et al., 2001, Exp. Brain Res., 139, 168-72). Moreover, the inhibition was rela...

The climate of academic psychiatry practice has changed significantly, with consequential and critical advances in our understanding of basic neural mechanisms in health and disease. Increased comprehension of synaptic transmission, pharmacology and drug receptor interactions, and the development of functional MRI and other high resolution imaging technologies, have led to enhanced concepts of central nervous system involvement in mental health and psychiatric disorders. For the residents trained in the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) psychiatry residency program to be competitive and current with an understanding of contemporary neuroscience, a new didactic course was conceived for third and fourth year residents and conducted over the academic 2001-02 year. The intention of this course was to integrate neurosciences and psychiatric/behavioral disorders. The course consisted of 35 lectures delivered by a basic neuroscientist with relevant psychiatric discussions by a psychiatr...

Neuroscience 2020 has been cancelled.

Abstracts are accepted for a two-week submission period in June. Late-breaking abstracts are not accepted.