Neuroscience News

A new study of mice exposed to cocaine reveals how drugs can cause anatomical changes in the brain.

Dr. Bobby Kasthuri has tried to capture the essence of drugs in the brain for decades. Now, images that highlight the effects are opening the door to find new ways to treat drug addiction.

Nineteen University of Chicago faculty members have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, effective January 1st, 2022. Join us in congratulating Brent Doiron, PhD and John Maunsell, PhD for their named professorships of first Heinrich Kluver Professor of Neurobiology, Statistics and the College and Albert D. Lasker Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and the College respectively.

Few people likely equate neuroscience with a love story. For Robert Carrillo, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago and member of the Neuroscience Institute, the romanticized term is an ideal way of explaining his research.

Join us in congratulating S. Murray Sherman, PhD, Maurice Goldblatt Professor and Chair of Neurobiology, and W Martine Usrey, PhD, from the University of California at Davis for their newly published book, "Exploring Thalamocortical Interactions: Circuitry for Sensation, Action, and Cognition".

Researchers in the Kratsios and Roos labs crack a notoriously difficult problem that could advance the search for treatments for more than 30 neurological diseases.