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A new report from a group of Northeastern researchers explores across disciplines how biotech can ensure safe, sustainable life beyond Earth.
The key to international space cooperation is developments in biotechnology, Northeastern researchers say
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The NeuroPRISM lab, led by assistant psychology professor Stephanie Noble, makes tools that pave the way for reliable and reproducible neuroimaging of the brain.
Precise maps of the brain’s deepest corners are made possible through tools developed by these Northeastern researchers
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Their co-op contributed to advancing new research on Alzheimer’s and brain health.
Fourth year behavioral Neuroscience students, Sabrina Bond and Sofia Mazuera, were recently published as co-authors of a study that may have significant implications for brain diseases.
How the dark shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic is changing our brains.
Rebecca Shansky's research finds that stress during Covid-19 can change the way the human brain works.
You can’t determine emotion from someone’s facial movements and neither can AI.
Distinguished Psychology Professor, Lisa Feldman Barrett's newest study finds that human emotions cannot be determined by facial expressions alone, they must rely on context.
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.
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.
The science behind Sam Adams
Halle Chernin samples craft beers as a “sensory consumer" co-op at the Boston Beer Company.
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 […]
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.
These scientists want to make your brain enjoy broccoli
Neurogastronomy aims to help junk food addicts, cancer survivors, and COVID-19 patients.
Why Don’t Drugs Work As Well For Women? They’re Tested On Male Mice
After decades of research, scientists have developed countless therapeutics to improve human health. But they’ve also created a problem. Many of these drugs don’t work as well for half of the population—that is, the female half. Women are also more often misdiagnosed for a variety of ailments, including stroke and ADHD. The root of this […]
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.
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 […]