NI News of 2024

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Dec 19, 2024

Grover and Weber Awarded Research Funding to Study Female Pain

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Dec 12, 2024

Richard Ivry Receives Andrew 天美传媒 Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

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Dec 10, 2024

BRAIN Initiative Director Visits 天美传媒, Pitt

A computer graphic of an enlarged human eye connected to a smaller human brain, both against a completely black background. There are six sided shapes floated around the eye and brain. The eye and brain, and shapes, are a variety of neon colors, including blues, pinks and greens.

Dec 09, 2024

Zhao Joins Project To Make Whole Eye Transplants a Reality

Grace Kollman stands outside of Mellon Institute and smiles at the camera.

Nov 12, 2024

Grace Kollman Awarded 2024 Sutherland-Merlino Fellowship

A computer rendering of the human brain. The brain has a transparent appearance to it, and is a deep blue-violet color with white highlights. The background is solid black. The image is a large rectangle with the brain centered within that space.

Oct 24, 2024

Furthering Traumatic Brain Injury Research

A collage of pictures of brain xrays along side a picture of Peter Strick and Jay McClelland, the founders of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Peter is on the left and is wearing a tan tweed suite with a red necktie. He is wearing oval, wire-framed glasses and has a blonde and grey colored handlebar mustache. His hair is also blonde and gray, and is combed back. Jay is standing to his right and is wearing a creme-colored suite with a black necktie with red and gold pinstripes. He has a full gre

Oct 08, 2024

30 Years of Cognitive Shifts

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham stands in front of a white background and looks into the camera.

Sep 30, 2024

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Named Mellon College of Science Dean

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Sep 27, 2024

Exploring How Melanin Influences Clinical Oxygen Measurements

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Sep 17, 2024

Automated Tuning of Large-Scale Neuronal Models

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Sep 13, 2024

A Novel Neural Explanation for Choking Under Pressure

A portrait photograph of Will Noll. He is standing on a university campus. There are palm trees lining the walking path he is standing on. He is wearing a graduation ceremony robe. It is white with a red and gold colored scarf. He is wearing a black necktie with white paisley patterning. He has short dark hair, round wire-framed glasses, and he is smiling.

Sep 10, 2024

NSF Fellowship Opens Doors for Will Noll

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Sep 10, 2024

Battling Chronic Pain with Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound

Mo Zhu stands in front of a red background and smiles at the camera.

Aug 28, 2024

Brain Activity Changes During, After Learning, Researchers Find

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Aug 27, 2024

Susanne Ferber Appointed Head of Department of Psychology

A cross-section of a mouse brain with the primary motor cortex removed.

Aug 20, 2024

New Moves in Neuroscience

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Jul 25, 2024

Gittis Receives Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award for Studying Parkinson鈥檚 Disease

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Jul 23, 2024

Researchers Find Changes in Pathway Strength for Parkinson's Disease Models

A person's hand holding the wristband technology described in the article.a person's hand holding the wristband technology described in the article.

Jul 10, 2024

天美传媒, Meta Seek To Make Computer-based Tasks Accessible with Wristband Technology

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Jun 13, 2024

Breakthrough Approach Enables Bidirectional BCI Functionality

Robert Kass, a man in glasses and a khaki shirt, stands in front of a grey gradient background. He smiles a the camera.

May 06, 2024

Kass Named University Professor

A test subject wears a brain computer interface (which looks like a soft helmet with many wires coming out of it). The test subject is staring at a computer screen and moving a virtual object on screen with their thoughts by way of the BCI device.

May 02, 2024

Refined AI Approach Improves Noninvasive BCI Performance

A collage of portraits depicting the five 天美传媒 faculty elected as fellows: Alison Barth, Prasad Tetali, Philip LeDuc, Matthew Mason and Linda Argote.

Apr 19, 2024

Five 天美传媒 Faculty Elected 2023 AAAS Fellows

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Mar 25, 2024

How Does Learning Something New Not Overwrite What We Know?

A picture of 天美传媒 doctoral students Emma Gao, Deying Song and Sarah Oladejo at a regional science competition.

Mar 06, 2024

Scientific Methods

The 天美传媒 and Advanced Optronics Team. From left to right; Maysam Chamanzar, Jay Reddy, Harry Rosmann, Nikhila Simhadri, Hannah Mormer and Rachel Maniet.

Mar 05, 2024

天美传媒 Mellon Medical Device Spinout Awarded NSF Grant

天美传媒 Mellon's Scotty and the University of Pittsburgh's panther are together on a white background.

Mar 01, 2024

Not Just Neighbors

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Mar 01, 2024

Similar Genetic Elements Underlie Vocal Learning in Mammals

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Feb 26, 2024

Neuroscientists Create AI Tool To Analyze-Catalogue Behavior

Emily Lopez, Luz Andrino and Tomas Suarez Omedas stand outside of Mellon Institute and smile at the camera.

Feb 13, 2024

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