Decision Making
June 15, 2020
What is the Cerebellum?
Recent research is revealing new, complex roles for this ancient and universal brain structure.
Disease
March 27, 2020
Scientists Identify Gene That First Slows, Then Accelerates, ALS in Mice
Columbia study underscores complexities of deadly neurodegenerative disease; offers promising strategies to target disease’s underlying genetic mechanisms.
Decision Making
February 26, 2020
How Does the Brain Put Decisions into Context?
Columbia research combines mathematics and neuroscience; highlights surprising power of one brain area to simultaneously integrate vast amounts of information.
The Senses
February 4, 2020
Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute Announces Three Artists-in-Residence
Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behavior.
The Senses
January 2, 2020
Artist Sarah Sze on Working With Neuroscientists
Sarah Sze, a 2003 Macarthur Fellow and a professor in the visual arts program at the School of the Arts, spent 2019 as the Alan Kanzer Artist-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Institute.
Tools & Technology
December 18, 2019
Curious Minds: How Can We See Living Nerve Cells in Action?
If you could see the brain at work in a living creature, imagine what you could discover about the biology’s most fundamental processes. For postdoctoral research scientist Wenze Li, PhD, and graduate student Rebecca Vaadia, this is not a dream, but reality.
Movement
November 27, 2019
Why Do We Freeze When Startled? New Study in Flies Points to Serotonin
Columbia researchers uncover mechanism that produces the fly’s startle response, offers clues as to what may happen in our own bodies when we get startled.
The Senses
November 18, 2019
Inside the Jazz Lab with Helen Sung, Jazz Artist-in-Residence
Award-winning pianist completes a year-long residency at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute with a debut of original compositions inspired by brain science.
Movement
October 21, 2019
The Brain Science of Baseball
Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert, PhD, is uncovering the connections between body and brain that make the physical feats of this sport possible.
Disease
October 21, 2019
Rui Costa Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Academy recognizes Dr. Costa’s outstanding contributions to the brain science of movement and learning that has yielded insights into Parkinson’s disease, autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
