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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

ILLUSTRATION BY: KATHRYN SCHWEICKERT/The Hoya | A pharmacology lecture hosted by the GU Medical Center explores the history of how GABA, an important brain molecule, was discovered, and looking forward, how we can apply our understanding of it to therapeutics.

Annual Pharmacology Lecture Delves into ‘The World of GABA’

By Sahana Arumani, Deputy Science Editor April 17, 2024

A Georgetown University pharmacology and physiology professor gave an overview of “The World of GABA” in the annual Stephen and Mary Krop Lectureship in Pharmacology April 12.  Dr. Paul Krop (CAS...

GUMC Hosts Talk on Brain Circuitry for Application to Parkinson’s Disease

GUMC Hosts Talk on Brain Circuitry for Application to Parkinson’s Disease

By Sahana Arumani February 21, 2024

A Georgetown University neuroscience professor discussed her research on motor pathways at the Georgetown University Medical Center on Feb. 20.  The department of biochemistry hosted the talk on neuroscience...

SISODIYA: Achieving Flow, Maintaining Focus

SISODIYA: Achieving Flow, Maintaining Focus

By Sudhanshu Sisodiya December 6, 2016

We all recall times where we just hope we could zone in on the moment, focus on a given assignment without distractions, with the distilled clarity of Bradley Cooper’s character in the 2011 movie “Limitless.”  The...

Digging Past Implausibility

By Ayan Mandal October 4, 2016

A friend who visited me a week ago swears by zodiac signs, claiming my personality was “such an Aquarius; so goal-driven, stubborn and opinionated.” Even when discussing another friend, this person...

COURTESY GEORGETOWN COLLEGE

Adam Green, a Georgetown psychology professor, conducted a study that found that tDCS to the left frontal lobe can increase creativity in participants.

Professors Find Electrical Brain Stimulation Enhances Creativity

By Lisa Burgoa April 22, 2016

Electrical stimulation to the front of the brain’s left hemisphere may spark an increased capacity for creative thinking, according to new findings by Georgetown researchers Adam Green and Peter...

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