News
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Ben Handen heads $109M U grant to study dementia biomarkers
The NIH funding expands research on the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome, who are at high risk of developing dementia starting in their late 40s. Learn More
Monday, October 19, 2020
Imaging study: Dementia risk may be lower in socially engaged people in their 80s
Cynthia Felix and her public health colleagues find that a healthy social life appears to protect against loss of gray matter integrity. Learn More
Monday, October 19, 2020
PittMed: How neurons help regulate imflammation
Immunologist Daniel Kaplan and neuroscientists Kathryn Albers and Brian Davis use optogenetics to study protective immunity that is triggered by pain-sensing neurons in the skin. Learn More
Events
Wed
18
Nov
CNBC ECR Seminar Series
Illuminating neural circuit dynamics of pain processing with in vivo imaging and computational techniques
Biafra Ahanonu, PhD
University of California San Francisco
1:00 PM
Wed
18
Nov
CNBC ECR Seminar Series
A skin-to-brain circuit for social touch
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
1:00 PM
Thu
19
Nov
Joint Neurobiology/Neuroscience Virtual Seminar Series
Sex Differences in the Brain: Not What You Think Evidence for Latent Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Synaptic Modulation.
Catherine Woolley, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University
12:00 PM