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Behavioral Neuroscience

Co-op and COVID: Working at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Leilani is a fourth year behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern, currently on her first co-op at Beth Israel. She was hired to be an assistant during behavior studies of mice, but like many students her co-op experience has been dramatically changed by the pandemic. We reached out to her to see what her experience is like, and how it is different from what she expected.

October 25, 2020

Researchers at Northeastern are studying rat brains to understand how trauma in infancy makes children, but especially girls, more likely to develop anxiety and other similar disorders later in life. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

Childhood Trauma Changes Your Brain. But It Doesn’t Have to Be Permanent.

Neuroscientists at Northeastern are using rats to understand how trauma in infancy makes children, but especially girls, more likely to develop anxiety and other similar disorders later in life.

February 25, 2020

Photo by Nick Hobgood

Behavioral Neuroscience

What Squid Neurons and an Octopus on Ecstasy Can Teach Us about Ourselves

Cephalopods may not look a lot like humans (for one, they have twice as many limbs), but their nervous systems bear remarkable similarities, and the size of their neurons makes them great subjects of study.

September 10, 2019

01/09/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Professor Dagmar Sternad studies human movement with Boston ballet dancers in her lab on January 9, 2019. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology

The Science of Movement

How do we move elegantly? How do we balance? Dagmar Sternad is studying ballet dancers to discover the science of movement.

July 31, 2019

Northeastern graduates Francis Nimick, left, and Amanda Stroiney, right, work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer. Stroiney says that she wouldn’t be working at Outcomes4Me, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if not for the opportunity to do co-op at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of the university’s CaNCURE program. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

The Program That's Training the Students who could Transform Cancer Treatment

Northeastern graduates work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer.

June 13, 2019

Illustration by Hannah Moore/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

Most Biomedical Research is Done on Male Animals. That's a Public Health Problem.

Rebecca Shansky, assistant professor of psychology, was studying how rats handle stressful experiences when she noticed female rats respond differently.

May 31, 2019

Illustration by Hannah Moore/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

Most Biomedical Research is Done on Male Animals. That’s a Public Health Problem.

Rebecca Shansky, assistant professor of psychology, was studying how rats handle stressful experiences when she noticed female rats respond differently.

May 31, 2019

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology

Adorno Earns GEM Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering PhD

Jonathan Adorno COS’19 came to Northeastern as a Torch Scholar, thinking he wanted to be a doctor. Now that he is preparing to graduate, he still wants to spend his career doing work that helps people with diseases such as cancer—but in the research laboratory.

May 02, 2019

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

It's Time To Correct Neuroscience Myths

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book.

April 18, 2019

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

It’s Time To Correct Neuroscience Myths

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book.

April 18, 2019

Claire Celestin, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology

She Met a Peruvian Midwife, and That Changed Everything

Claire Celestin, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship.

April 10, 2019

Behavioral Neuroscience

Adorno Earns GEM Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering PhD

Jonathan Adorno COS’19 came to Northeastern as a Torch Scholar, thinking he wanted to be a doctor. Now that he is preparing to graduate, he still wants to spend his career doing work that helps people with diseases such as cancer—but in the research laboratory rather than the exam room.

April 08, 2019