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How Carol Kellogg Helped Establish One of the Nation's First Undergraduate Neuroscience Programs
In 1980, Neuroscience became an official major at the University of Rochester. Professor Emeritus Carol Kellogg helped make the major official after noticing the students were making independent ...
Faculty Q & A: Jamie Capal, MD
Jamie Capal, MD, is the division chief of Child Neurology, Frederick A. Horner, MD, Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Neurology and has an appointment in Neurology, Pediatrics, ...
Student Spotlight: Evan Newbold
Evan Newbold is a fifth-year neuroscience graduate student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He received his undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Lafayette College ...
Neuroscience graduate student awarded diversity fellowship
Victoria Popov, a fifth-year neuroscience graduate student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry recently received a prestigious diversity award from the National Institute ...
University of Rochester brain research featured at Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago
Several dozen Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester faculty, researchers, and trainees from programs including Neuroscience, Brain and Cognitive Science, Center for ...
Research finds neurons look different in children with autism
Neuronal measurements could provide new insight into diagnosis & therapeutic interventions for autism
A revolutionary map of the fly brain could change how we study our brains
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new resource—the FlyWire Connectome, described today in the journal Nature—that maps every neuron and synaptic connection in the central brain of ...
A Gallery: Neuroscientists in Color
Nathan Anthony Smith, PhD, My lab studies two very unique brain cells called astrocytes and microglia. Collectively, these two cell types are known as glia – which derives from the Latin word for ...
Building on a legacy of intellectual and developmental disabilities research and care
The foundational work of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) related care and research has been underway at the University and Medical Center for more than a half-century. Clinicians ...
Connection speed in the brain may impact how people with autism process visual illusions
Researchers are finding the process in our brain that allows us to see these visual distinctions may not be happening the same way in the brains of children with autism spectrum disorder. They may be ...