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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

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

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

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.

Photo by Nick Hobgood

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

Behavioral Neuroscience

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.

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

The Science of Movement

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology

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

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

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

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

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.

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

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

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

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.

Illustration by Hannah Moore/Northeastern University

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

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

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

Illustration by Hannah Moore/Northeastern University

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

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

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

Adorno Earns GEM Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering PhD

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology

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.

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

It's Time To Correct Neuroscience Myths

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

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.

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

It’s Time To Correct Neuroscience Myths

Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology

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.

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