Nora Volkow Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the toxic effects and addictive... read more
Current CNBC graduate students from Pitt and CMU talk about their work, their experiences at the CNBC, and life in Pittsburgh. What is it like to be a graduate student in the CNBC? We asked our graduate students to answer questions about their research, t... read more
Recent work by CNBC researchers published in Cerebral Cortex provide evidence that age-related reductions of sensitivity to reward are tied to neurodevelopment processes, specifically, changes in the influence of affective systems on the control of behavi... read more
Gustavo Sudre, a 2012 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition’s (CNBC) neural computation doctoral program, now spends his days in the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of... read more
Researchers working in the lab of Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Aryn Gittis have identified two groups of neurons that can be turned on and off to alleviate the movement-related symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The activation of these cells ... read more
Steven Chase (BME), received the 2017 Dean’s Early Career Fellowships for groundbreaking work in his field. Dr Chase is one of 4 young CMU faculty members who have been granted fellowships to provide funding to further their outstanding research. The De... read more
Carnegie Mellon University’s Roberta Klatzky has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists and civic leaders. Dr. Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan Professor o... read more
Neuroscientists in Alison Barth’s lab at Carnegie Mellon University have identified principles for information processing in the neocortex, an evolutionarily expanded area of the brain critical for cognition. The study is one of most elaborate of it... read more
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are closer than ever before to understanding the neural basis of facial identification. CMU’s Mark D. Vida, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Dep... read more
Marlene Behrmann, George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology at CMU, and Wayne Wu, Associate Director and Associate Professor, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, will discuss the topics of visi... read more