Recent news about neuroscience and the brain from across Columbia.
The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow published July 14 in Science.
Sixty years ago, when neurology department professor Harry Grundfest was doing groundbreaking research at the College of Physicians and Surgeons that attracted the likes of future Nobel laureate Eric Kandel to Columbia, he designed a workspace at the medical center that was intended to promote maximum contact among his postdoctoral students.
Dear Alma,
Columbia is big in interdisciplinary neuroscience, including two Nobel laureates, but who came before them?
—Neuro Fan
Two Columbia professors have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).