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Do spiders dream? What about cuttlefish? Bearded dragons? (Links to an external site)

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023

A cuttlefish resting on the bottom of an aquarium

Read Dr. Paul Shaw’s comments in an article in Knowable Magazine about REM sleep across the animal kingdom.

How do developing brains assemble and organize themselves? (Links to an external site)

August 29, 2023August 31, 2023

Video of a wave of electrical activity passes over the visual area of the brain of a marsupial joey.

Brain areas are marked by distinct activity patterns very early, marsupial study published in PNAS by the Richards Lab shows.

‘Gain-of-function’ mutation spawns autism traits (Links to an external site)

July 31, 2023July 31, 2023

Embryonic mice with a hyperactivating mutation in UBE3A show increased numbers of a specific subset of inhibitory interneurons (green) in the brain’s outer layer.

Assistant Professor Jason Yi’s latest work on UBE3A is highlighted in Spectrum.

Humans will trade pain for useless information (Links to an external site)

July 12, 2023July 12, 2023

A hand flipping a gold coin on a blue background

Read comments from Dr. Ethan Bromberg-Martin, a senior scientist in Ilya Monosov’s lab, on a new study about the value of inconsequential knowledge.

The shape of your brain may strongly influence your thoughts and behavior, study finds (Links to an external site)

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023

A man points at brain scans on a computer screen

Read Dr. David Van Essen’s comments on the new study in Nature.

Honoring the Body Donors Who Are a Medical Student’s ‘First Patient’ (Links to an external site)

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

Nivedita Ravi and Ryan Cohen, students at Columbia University’s medical school, performed in April at a gratitude ceremony honoring people who had donated their bodies to be studied in the school’s anatomy lab.

Gratitude ceremonies give students and faculty members a chance to recognize the sacrifice of those who gave their bodies for medical research and education, and the loved ones they left behind.

Researchers receive Alzheimer’s Association funding (Links to an external site)

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

Ibrahim Saliu, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neuroscience, has received a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to study the role of astrocytes in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

WashU Medicine reaches new heights as it climbs to No. 3 in NIH research funding (Links to an external site)

February 9, 2023March 6, 2023

Guoyan Zhao (right) discusses research projects with research analyst Kevin Boyer (left) and postdoctoral research associate Wei Feng at Washington University School of Medicine.

Research flourishes despite the immense challenges of the pandemic.

Some dinos may have been as brainy as modern primates, controversial study argues (Links to an external site)

January 12, 2023March 6, 2023

Read Dr. Ashley Morhardt’s take on the paper in an article in Science.

Sustainability key focus in Neuroscience Research Building construction (Links to an external site)

January 11, 2023March 6, 2023

This rendering shows a large rooftop terrace on the third floor of the Neuroscience Research Building that can be used as a gathering place for employees and as an event space.

Facility on track to achieve LEED Gold certification