Neuroscience News

Researchers led by assistant professor Wilma Bainbridge at UChicago have found that personal moments captured via social media allowed them to map out a multidimensional topography of memory—and it could open up new venues for exploring memory.

Prof. Marlene Cohen’s research uses vision as a means to study how signals about the world get transformed in the brain to produce behavior.

Neuroscientist uses MRIs to measure your attention—and learn how to improve it

Yamuna Krishnan, professor of chemistry, received the Pioneer Award, which entails $3.5 million of research funding over five years for an ambitious new research direction to map organelles electrochemically. The Pioneer Award will enable Krishnan to explore previously uncharted spaces inside cells, using an unorthodox method she pioneered: making tiny machines out of DNA.

Raymond Roos, MD, the Marjorie and Robert E. Straus, Professor in Neurologic Science, will partner with Paschalis Kratsios, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, to direct the Center for Motor Neuron Disease (CMND).

The brain expertly enhances some signals and filters out others so that we can ignore distractions and focus on the most important details. How does the brain accomplish these feats of focus? In recent research at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., we have illuminated a new answer to this question.