Neuroscience

Professor, musician, and composer David Sulzer demystifies the science that underlies music.

Columbia researchers in Professor Rafael Yuste’s lab discover neurons that detect novel stimuli.

The findings support reports of neuro-cognitive changes after medically induced comas, a procedure that has been relied upon in treating many COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.

A unified classification of diverse cell types proposed by a Columbia-led team could shed light on how our brains are wired.

As Columbia labs reopen, scientists talk about the challenges and some surprising benefits, of working remotely and how they are adjusting to the new normal.

The School of the Arts professor spent a year collaborating with scientists at the Zuckerman Institute.

Scientists say this common experience plays a role in everything from drug addiction to academic failure.

While the rate of Eastern Equine Encephalitis is unusually high this year, more worrisome is the link to a warming climate and what it could signal for the future.

A Columbia-led study finds disruptions in the body’s gut microbes triggered by early-life adversity are linked to brain function

Federica Coppola's research exists at the intersection of neuroscience and law. She investigates how brain research has been applied in the past and could be used to revise criminal law doctrines, theories of punishment and correctional practices.

Scientists have identified a group of genes that induces differences in the developing brains of male and female roundworms and triggers the initiation of puberty, a genetic pathway that may have the same function in controlling the timing of sexual maturation in humans.

A new study by Columbia researchers shows that the brain plays back and prioritizes high-reward events for later retrieval and filters out the neutral, inconsequential events, retaining only memories that are useful to future decisions.