This Valentine's Day, explore the neuroscience of pleasurable touch

New View of Key Protein Found In Kidney and Brain Opens Avenues to Treating Diseases

Revelation of protein’s structural nuances point toward novel pharmaceutical approaches to chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s and other illnesses

Scientists Use Card Game to Probe Role of Memory–and Uncertainty–in Decision-Making

When making decisions, we rely on different kinds of memory. How does the brain decide which to use? New research suggests it depends on uncertainty.

Origins of Pleasurable Touch Traced from Skin to Brain in Mice

Researchers uncover neuronal circuitry tuned to rewarding forms of social touch, opening leads for harnessing touch as a treatment of social and emotional disorders

Meet Andre Toussaint

Why is a behavioral neuroscientist studying genes to understand pain and addiction? Meet Andre Toussaint, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Abdus-Saboor Lab.

Dr. Elizabeth Hillman named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Academy honors Dr. Hillman’s track record of creating and building powerful new imaging methods that open new windows on biology

Meet Kimberly Hernandez Palacios

How did a PhD candidate connect students from underrepresented backgrounds to neuroscience? Meet Kimberly Hernandez Palacios, a PhD student at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.

Spotlight: A New Serial Two-Photon Tomography System at the IICD and the Zuckerman Institute

Giving Science a BUMP

The Black Undergraduate Mentorship Program sets the stage for more equitable representation

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