Congratulations to SBS graduate student Sarah Herald who was a recipient of the 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program award. Sarah is a PhD candidate in Professor Brad Duchaine's lab and her research focuses on higher-level vision and social perception.
[more]We are delighted to announce our inaugural Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth (MIND) Computational Summer School, to be held August 13-20. The theme of this year's summer school is Network Dynamics at Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales.
[more]Researchers in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences have had research-dedicated access to an fMRI scanner at the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center in Moore Hall since 1999. This past summer, we bid farewell to our old Philips scanner, and installed a brand-new Siemens Prisma 3T MRI scanner, which will allow us to stay on the cutting edge of research. See the full article here.
[more]The Daily Mail features a new study by a Dartmouth post-doctoral fellow, Stephen Chang, and colleagues that traces cravings to a particular region in the brain. Chang tells the Daily Mail, "Although we have a sense of what brain circuits mediate reward, less is known about the neural circuitry underlying the transfer of value to cues associated with rewards". The aim of this line of research is to provide insight into, and potential solutions toward combating habitual behaviors, such as overeating.
[more]In a story about the quest to shed light on how people experience emotions, Medical Daily turns for comment to Dartmouth's Luke Chang.
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