Advance marks critical step toward brain-computer interfaces that hold immense promise for those with limited or no ability to speak.
Armed with advanced genomic tools, Columbia scientists have uncovered an ingenious mechanism that underlies the brain’s ability to distinguish different smells.
Nima Mesgarani, PhD, is studying how your brain picks out individual voices from a crowd — and using this knowledge to build a better hearing aid that reads your mind.
Award unites different fields of brain research to foster an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to deciphering the brain.
Columbia research in mice finds unexpected resilience in the brain; findings could inform future treatment approaches for patients recuperating from stroke or other brain trauma.
Columbia research identifies neural-circuit activity in electric fish that could explain how humans subtract out signals generated by our own bodies; could inform studies of sensory disorders such as tinnitus.
Columbia study shows that altering activity in brain’s emotion center can eliminate the natural craving for sweet; findings could inform treatments for eating disorders.
Academy recognizes decades of work to map complex pathways that connect the eye to the brain; research that could inform treatments of developmental and vision disorders.
Columbia researchers develop mathematical model that proposes new and critical role for neurons in the brain’s smell center.
Findings offer clues into comparable survival strategies in people.
