Curious Minds: Can You Inherit Stress on Your DNA?
Do the experiences of your father leave a mark on your genes? Can trauma be passed down from generation to generation?
Do the experiences of your father leave a mark on your genes? Can trauma be passed down from generation to generation?
How do the tongue and the brain work together to tell us that certain things are sour?
Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behavior.
Columbia-led study in mice maps brain circuitry that enables a single pheromone to drive both innate and learned sexual behaviors
Findings lay groundwork for mapping mechanisms of color vision; could inspire future technologies for those with vision impairments.
A Q&A with Nathaniel Sawtell, Larry Abbott and Salomon Muller.
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.
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.
Postdoctoral research scientist Jordan Moore, PhD, discovered a part of the brain critical for learning songs: a step toward understanding how human beings learn language when young.
Award-winning pianist completes a year-long residency at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute with a debut of original compositions inspired by brain science.