Neuroscience

Recent news about neuroscience and the brain from across Columbia.

Rafael Yuste, a professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, has been awarded the Eliasson

Raju Tomer has won a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, for his pioneering work in developing new technologies for high-resolution mapping of brai

Researchers found clumps of non-functioning hnRNP H and at least three other RNA-binding proteins in the brain cells of people who had died with AL

Researchers show that skilled improvisers are better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that c

Two Columbia professors — a neuroscientist whose work on the visual system could lead to a cure for blindness and a theoretical computer scientist

Researchers show how an algorithm for filtering spam can learn to pick out, from hours of video footage, the full behavioral repertoire of tiny, po

A neuroscientist and cartoonist, Matteo Farinella is a postdoc in Columbia's Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program.

Psychiatry professor Joanna Steinglass and Psychology professor Daphna Shohamy incorporated cognitive neuroscience in the study of anorexia nervosa

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute organized a three-day conference that starts brings together cognitive scientists, neurosci

It would be unusual to confuse the mouth-watering aroma of baking chocolate chip cookies with the fragrance of a floral perfume or the stench of bu

Touch may be the hardest of the senses to study, because the skin has so many jobs to do.