Neuroscience

After an eight-year tenure as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, a visionary psychiatrist and neuroscientist, assumed his new role on August 15, 2024, as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Executive Director of the...

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation announced today the first cohort of Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience, a continuation of an earlier fellowship program started by the Foundation in 2009 that has supported 160 fellows in neuroscience.

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation announced today that the Academy will be accepting applications from October 5 through December 9, 2022 for the Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience program. The program will support exceptional young researchers across the five boroughs of New York City as they pursue innovative...

Neuroscience News - Multitasking is not just an office skill. It’s key to functioning as a human, and it involves something called cognitive flexibility – the ability to smoothly switch between mental processes. UNC scientists conducted a study to image the neural activity analogues to cognitive flexibility and discover differences in the brain activity of...

The Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience postdoctoral program will include more than a dozen New York City institutions.  The program supports exceptional young researchers across the five boroughs of New York City as they pursue innovative investigations in neuroscience and advance in their careers toward becoming independent principal investigators.

Columbia University and The New York Public Library have launched a public health initiative—in partnership with the National Black Leadership Commission on Health (Black Health)—to bring free education and resources to New York City residents who face lack of access and cultural barriers to behavioral health care. The Community Mental Health Project, supported by the...

Columbia's Department of Psychiatry has developed an innovative new outreach initiative as psychologists and psychiatrists prepare for a tsunami of mental-health issues caused by the collective trauma of the pandemic. The Post-COVID Community Mental Health Project, funded by the Leon Levy Foundation, sets out to increase public access to mental-health information. In...

In a paper published today in Aging Cell, neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences discovered that a single protein—a glutamate transporter on the membrane of vesicles that carry dopamine in neurons—is key to regulating sex differences in the brain’s vulnerability to age-related neuron...

Scientists uncovered a surprising mechanism by which the hippocampus, a brain region critical for memory, builds bridges across time: by firing off bursts of activity that seem random, but in fact make up a complex pattern that, over time, help the brain learn associations. By revealing the underlying circuitry behind associative learning,...