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Newly opened Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building dedicated (Links to an external site)

February 1, 2024March 19, 2024

Participants in the dedication Jan. 18 of the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building celebrate a ribbon-cutting at the new Washington University Medical Campus building. From left are: Eric Lenze, MD, head of the Department of Psychiatry and the Wallace & Lucille Renard Professor of Psychiatry; Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, head of the Department of Neurology and the Andrew B. & Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology; Linda J. Richards, PhD, head of the Department of Neuroscience and the Edison Professor of Neuroscience; Missouri Gov. Mike Parson; Andrew M. Bursky, chair of the university’s Board of Trustees; David H. Perlmutter, MD, the George and Carol Bauer Dean of Washington University School of Medicine; Chancellor Andrew D. Martin; Jeffrey T. Fort; Fort’s sister, Liz Dorr; and Pamella A. Henson, executive vice chancellor of University Advancement.

Celebration signals ‘new era for medical science’

Camillo Padoa-Schioppa: Value in the brain, orbitofrontal cortex, and causality in neuroscience (Links to an external site)

January 25, 2024March 19, 2024

Listen to Professor Padoa-Schioppa discuss his training and research on the BJKS Podcast.

Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition Funding Awarded to 7 Research Teams (Links to an external site)

January 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Yao Chen and fellow recipients of the Scialog awards

Assistant Professor Yao Chen received two awards for collaborative projects to advance understanding of the molecular or mechanistic processes that underlie memory and cognition.

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

January 12, 2024March 19, 2024

Taxonomy of animals and their sleep states

Read Professor Paul Shaw’s insights in Big Think on sleep across the animal kingdom.

A hub for collaboration

January 8, 2024January 8, 2024

The Neuroscience Research Building is seen at dusk and evening from a high-rise on the north side of Central West End on August 29, 2023.

New building houses one of the world’s highest concentrations of neuroscientists

Neurosciences on the rise

January 5, 2024January 25, 2024

The long, slender axons of neurons that terminate in the mouse superior colliculus — a part of the brain involved in sensation — glow blue and red after infection with fluorescent tracing viruses.

Launching a new era of progress

A look at plans for the new Washington University Neuroscience Research Building (Links to an external site)

November 6, 2023December 14, 2023

Neuroscience Research Building at Washington University in St. Louis

The state-of-the-art facility will initially house approximately 100 teams comprising 875 researchers, including experts in neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and anesthesiology.

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

August 31, 2023October 18, 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, 2023October 18, 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, 2023October 18, 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.