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Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology
Lifestyle choices affect our brain’s capabilities throughout life — this researcher wants to know how.
Timothy Morris did not anticipate he would become an academic, but his career path led him to the position he now loves: postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern. Morris recounts his research journey, the significance of his current work, and why academia at Northeastern is his calling.
April 30, 2021
Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology
The Pursuit of Happiness (and Other Emotions): Using AI to Redefine Assumptions in Affective Science
Researchers in Northeastern’s PEN group use machine learning analysis to question the assumption that commonly used emotion words have biological meaning in a recent paper.
February 07, 2021
Behavioral Neuroscience, College of Science
My Co-op Experience: Wrann Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital
In January 2020, I started my first co-op as a research technician at Dr. Christiane Wrann’s laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. The research at the Wrann lab focuses on investigating the role of an exercise hormone, irisin, as a therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease using mice models. We also study how the deletion of irisin’s gene […]
January 26, 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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