Neuroscience News

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced seven pairs of researchers who will make up its 2025 class of Innovation Fund investigators, including Professor Eduardo Perozo. He will work with Juan-Pablo Castillo to interpret the molecular principles that underlie mechanotransduction. Congratulations!

Professor Yamuna Krishnan’s lab developed a nanodevice to gain access to the lysosome. Krishnan’s nanodevices include small DNA duplexes that are only about 35 kiloDaltons and can reveal the defects in lysosomes.

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one.

Peter Littlewood (Physics) has been named the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor, and Nicho Hatsopoulos (OBA) has been named the A.J. Carlson Professor. Congratulations!

Professor Marc Berman talks about why natural environments are "softly fascinating" and why that's beneficial for the brain in the podcast 'Speaking of Psychology', produced by the American Psychological Association.

Once linked to counterculture and illicit drug use, LSD is now being studied for its potential to treat depression and anxiety. Prof. Harriet De Wit’s LSD microdosing research was mentioned in this article on National Geographic.