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Wednesday, November 6, 2013 : Winners Named in 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Competition

Stories about efforts to prevent the Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes, evolutionary stress on endangered pupfish in the Mojave Desert, and the use of “crowdsourcing” to solve tough biological problems are among the winners of the 2013 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

Monday, October 14, 2013 : Edvard Moser Receives Another ERC Advanced Investigator Grant

Moser receives 2.5M Euro grant to investigate the functional organization of cortical circuits.

Friday, September 27, 2013 : Key Cellular Mechanism in the Body’s ‘Battery’ Can Either Spur or Stop Obesity

Becoming obese or remaining lean can depend on the dynamics of the mitochondria, the body’s energy-producing “battery.”

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 : Alzheimer’s Missing Link Found: Is a Promising Target for New Drugs

Yale School of Medicine researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer’s disease.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 : A Major Cause of Age-Related Memory Loss Identified

A team of Columbia researchers, led by Nobel laureate Eric R. Kandel, MD, has found that deficiency of a protein in the hippocampus is a significant contributor to age-related memory loss, and fortunately it is reversible.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 : Development of Hands and Feet May Help Unlock Evolution’s Toolkit

Thousands of sequences that control genes are active in the developing human limb and may have driven the evolution of the human hand and foot

Monday, July 1, 2013 : Yale Team Finds Nicotinic Receptor Essential for Cognition — and Mental Health

Researchers at Yale pinpoint key molecular actions of proteins that are found to be genetically altered in cases of schizophrenia.

Thursday, June 27, 2013 : Study Advances New Theory of How the Brain Is Wired

A new study by Columbia neuroscientists is overturning a longstanding view of how the cortex works.

Thursday, May 16, 2013 : UC San Diego Creates Center for Brain Activity Mapping

Responding to President Barack Obama’s “grand challenge” the University of California, San Diego has established the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM).

Friday, May 10, 2013 : The BRAIN Initiative

Papers, feature stories and other resources related to the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.