Kerry Grens will manage content for the department’s freshly renovated website, as well as its social media channels and other platforms.
New media manager joins Department of Neuroscience
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New Director of the Business Office, Kaslina Love Mosley
Most recently, Mosley was the research manager for the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine.
Study finds brain areas involved in seeking information about bad possibilities (Links to an external site)
Provides insight into how people decide whether they want to know what future holds
Satellite glial cells promote regenerative growth in sensory neurons
In a new paper, Valeria Cavalli’s lab describes the key role of a relatively poorly studied type of glial cells, satellite glial cells (SGC), in nerve repair.
Linda Richards named head of neuroscience (Links to an external site)
Valeria Cavalli receives an R35 award from the NIH
Dr. Cavalli’s team will combine single-cell approaches and epigenomic approaches in mouse and human sensory neurons to understand the neuronal and non-neuronal mechanisms orchestrating nerve repair.
Central vestibular tuning arises from patterned convergence of otolith afferents
The Bagnall lab finds the complexity of tuning in a vestibular neuron arises from the diversity of inputs it receives, and that this complexity can be predicted from these inputs.
Draining brain’s debris enhances Alzheimer’s therapies in mice (Links to an external site)
Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice (Links to an external site)
A study from Adam Kepecs’s lab in mice and people offers a new approach to investigating mental illnesses.
Oshri Avraham receives 2021 O’Leary Prize (Links to an external site)
