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Center For Neuroengineering Hosts Seminar on Ethics Integration in Neuroscience Research

Center For Neuroengineering Hosts Seminar on Ethics Integration in Neuroscience Research

By Henry Ren February 29, 2024

A philosophy professor from the University of Washington (UW) discussed her efforts to integrate ethics into neurotechnology research. The Feb. 21 seminar in Riggs Library, presented by Georgetown University...

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...

GUMC Study Reports Reversal of Amnesia Caused by Head Injury in Mice

GUMC Study Reports Reversal of Amnesia Caused by Head Injury in Mice

By Andrew Bordea January 24, 2024

On Jan. 16, the Georgetown University Medical Center announced the publication of a study that showed the reversal of amnesia following repetitive head injury in mice. Mark Burns, a professor of neuroscience...

GUMC Professor Receives Cognitive Neuroscience Award

GUMC Professor Receives Cognitive Neuroscience Award

By Allie Stevens January 17, 2024

Ella Striem-Amit, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the Georgetown University Medical Center received the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CSN) earlier this month.  This...

SPOTLIGHT: Georgetown’s Wang Lab Explores Mechanisms Behind Neurological Disorders

SPOTLIGHT: Georgetown’s Wang Lab Explores Mechanisms Behind Neurological Disorders

By Devansh Gandhi November 29, 2023

The Wang Lab, which studies how dysfunctional nervous system regulation impacts brain disorders, has pushed the boundaries of neuroscience research at Georgetown University for the past five years, with...

Neuroscience Conference Draws Over 25,000 Attendees to Washington, D.C.

Neuroscience Conference Draws Over 25,000 Attendees to Washington, D.C.

By Pallavi Bommareddy November 15, 2023

Neuroscience 2023, the largest scientific conference in the world, drew over 25,000 attendees from around the world to Washington, D.C. this year from Nov. 11 to Nov. 15. The conference, organized...

Study Shows How Brains Visual Processing Can Fail

Study Shows How Brain’s Visual Processing Can Fail

By Elizabeth Brenneman November 1, 2019

A crash in visual processing can occur when the brain is overwhelmed with more information than it can handle and visual stimuli do not make the full journey to and from the front of the brain, according...

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Neuroscience professor Bill Rebeck received a $10,000 grant for Alzheimers research.

Q&A: Neuroscience Professor Bill Rebeck Talks Future of Alzheimer’s Research

By Meena Morar October 11, 2017

Bill Rebeck, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown, doesn’t normally win things — or so he says. Rebeck is one of three faculty recipients of the President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers...

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...

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MANDAL: Dynamic Interests Push Science

By Ayan Mandal November 8, 2016

In 19th-century Spain, a young boy who wished only to become an artistwas met by disapproval from his parents, who urged him to pursue a more practical career in medicine. Ultimately, he attended medical...

Rewiring Thinking Through Travel

Rewiring Thinking Through Travel

By Hadley Thayer August 9, 2015

Why do people travel? How is it beneficial? Each person has a unique story and motivation for traveling. I could write about the thousands of stories of people I have met here in my hostel, at each...

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Karen Gale poses with her daughter, Justine Underhill (COL ’11), who remembers her for her creativity and passion.

Pharmacology and Neuroscience Professor Dies at 65

By Deirdre Collins October 7, 2014

Karen Gale, a professor of pharmacology and neuroscience at Georgetown for 37 years, lived her life as a mentor to her students, colleagues and daughters, with a devotion to fostering creativity, thinking...

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