Good Memory or Bad Memory? How Your Brain Decides.
The Context: Associating memories with good and bad feelings is something we do daily without a second thought. However, scientists have been working hard to discern...
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Bat Brains Offer A Glimpse into How We Navigate Through the World
The Problem: Human spatial navigation abilities are incredibly complex, and can go awry in diseases like Alzheimer’s. We know that the brain has specialized ‘place cells’...
NYSCF Announces 2020 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
Top row: Drs. Raffaella Di Micco, Samantha Morris, José Ordovás-Montañés. Bottom row: Drs. Jiami Guo, David Schneider, John Tuthill New York, NY (October 20, 2020) – The...
NYSCF Announces 2018 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NEW YORK, NY (October 23, 2018) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced the 2018 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six of...
Uncovering the Secrets Of Our Internal GPS
There’s a lot of work that goes into navigating through our world, and our brains take on much of the heavy lifting. The brain is full...
Announcing The 2017 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NYSCF welcomed six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists from around the world into the NYSCF Investigator Program and the NYSCF Innovator Community....
NYSCF Innovator Discovers Brain Network for Interpreting Social Interactions
How primates, including humans, easily and effortlessly process social interactions such as playing, fighting and grooming has historically been shrouded in mystery. NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator...
NYSCF Investigator Unearths Complexity in Brain Navigation System
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Lisa Giocomo and a team at Stanford University published their recent work in Neuron investigating how navigation works in the brain. Grid cells, commonly...
NYSCF Innovator Explores How Behavior Modulates Vision Using Fruit Flies
It is a well known fact that vision modifies behavior; however, behavior can also modify vision. NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Alumnus Dr. Gaby Maimon and...
NYSCF Innovator Named Recipient of Young Investigator Award
The Society for Neuroscience named NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Kay Tye as the recipient of the 2016 Young Investigator Award for her exceptional work...
NYSCF Innovator Explores Short Term Memory
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Christopher Harvey and his team at Harvard Medical School published their latest research exploring how short term memories are formed. Using...
NYSCF Announces the Six Members of the 2016 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NYSCF announced the 2016 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists from around the world into...
NYSCF Innovator Works to Understand the Zika Virus
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Dr. Hongda Li, The Rockefeller University, was first author on two papers investigating the zika virus. The first paper, published in Cell...
NYSCF Innovator Studies Zebra Finch Neurons During Song Production
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Michael Long, NYU School of Medicine, published the latest research out of his lab in Neuron describing neuronal behavior in Zebra...
NYSCF Innovator Illuminates Thought Processes
When people recall memories or make decisions neurons are activated and signals are shuttled through a sequence of these brain cells. NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator...
Decoding How Brains Respond to Positive and Negative Memories
The incredible advances in technology over the past two decades have given scientists the power to map the human brain. Researchers now know where in the...
NYSCF Innovator Deciphers How Birds Learn Songs to Elucidate How to Help Brain Injury Patients
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long studies how birds learn songs to understand how patients might re-learn skills following traumatic injuries. Dr. Long, New...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Examines How Fruit Flies Process Odors
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Vanessa Ruta examined how the brains of fruit flies pass signals from odors to different behavioral pathways. Dr. Ruta, Rockefeller University,...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Discovers Brain Networks Relate Facial Information To Social Cognition
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University, published his latest paper understanding how mammals make sense of faces in PLoS Biology. Faces...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Shows That Learning Impacts How the Brain Processes What We See
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Takaki Komiyama, University of California San Diego, published his breakthrough research showing that learning in mice impacts how their brains...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Publishes on Motor Learning
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Takaki Komiyama, University of California San Diego, identified a key step in how neurons process motor learning. Using two-photon imaging...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Explains How Neurons Differentiate Between Positive and Negative Associations
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provided a mechanistic explanation characterizing how neurons in the amygdala – the part of...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Makes Strides in Understanding Facial Recognition
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University, published his latest work on macaque facila processing in Current Biology. The researchers identified a...
Scientists Find Motor Cortex Plays Active Role in Movement Learning
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Takaki Komiyama of the University of California, San Diego, published the latest work from his lab on motor learning. The...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Receives Presidential Award
Dr. Gaby Maimon, a NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator at The Rockefeller University, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and...