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David Femi Lamptey and Nita Akoh pose for a photo

David Femi Lamptey, who studies computer engineering, and Nita Akoh, who studies neuroscience, pose for a portrait at Northeastern University on June 9, 2021. Akoh and Lamptey are the new president and vice-president of Northeastern’s African Student Organization. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience

A new wave of COVID-19 infections is surging through Africa. These students want to help.

Northeastern students from interdisciplinary backgrounds, including Nita Akoh, who studies neuroscience, are making a difference in the global fight against COVID-19.

July 13, 2021

6/30/21 Boston, MA: Justyna Stukin, a behavioral neuroscience major, poses for a portrait in ISAC on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Stukin worked at the Berenson-Allen center for non-invasive brain treatment, learning how to use a trans magnetic stimulator. The device, which looks like a solid figure eight, is used to treat depression and could help slow the progress of Alzheimers disease. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

Behavioral Neuroscience

She’s researching whether brain wave stimulation can slow Alzheimer’s

Justyna Stukin, a behavioral neuroscience major, is researching whether brain wave stimulation can slow the impact of Alzheimer's disease.

July 08, 2021

Halle Chernin at the Boston Beer Company on co-op

6/24/21 BOSTON, MA: Halle Chernin, a neuroscience major at Northeastern, pours new beer samples to be taste tested at the Boston Beer Company on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

The science behind Sam Adams

Halle Chernin samples craft beers as a “sensory consumer" co-op at the Boston Beer Company.

June 29, 2021

Behavioral Neuroscience

The not-so secret life of bees

Elena Getsios, who just finished her third-year behavioral neuroscience and philosophy major at Northeastern, got a taste for beekeeping after attending an event about the craft a few years ago. She jumped at the chance to learn more when she saw that the university offered a co-op at Best Bees, an urban beekeeping company located […]

May 21, 2021

08/18/17 – BOSTON, MA. People gather for the Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference in ISEC on Aug. 18, 2017. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

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

[“English emotion words don’t translate well to biological descriptions of emotions. Northeastern’s PEN group is looking at new ways to study and define emotions.”/Siegel et al. 2018 in Psychology Bulletin

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

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

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