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Read story: Searching for Solutions
04/15/2024
Computer Technology Provides Innovative Answers for Incurable Diseases
Read story: New Horizons
04/12/2024
Funding Collaborative Brain Power
Read story: A New Link Between Labs
04/10/2024
Using Computational Neuroscience to Connect Neuroscience Specialties
Read story: Gene Discovery
04/04/2024
Researchers awarded a patent in 2023 for a novel use of the protein MBLAC1 in screening for potential therapeutic agents to treat drug addiction.
Read story: Advancing Brain Health
04/02/2024
Grant Funds Fellows’ Neuroscience Research
Read story: New Talent, New Discoveries
03/28/2024
Postdoctoral Fellows are Vital Resources for Expanding Research
Read story: Running for New Neurons
03/26/2024
Research Reveals How Exercise Helps Maintain Memory
Read story: Brain Waves
03/21/2024
Harnessing Ultrasound to Treat Brain Disorders
Read story: That 'A-ha' Moment
03/19/2024
Research examines how agency — or exerting purposeful control on one’s surroundings — emerges in babies.
Read story: Community Partners
03/15/2024
Bringing a Holistic Approach to Research and Treatment for Degenerative Diseases
Read story: Stroke Treatment
03/13/2024
Patent for novel treatment for ischemic stroke.
Read story: New Fellows
03/11/2024
Budding Neuroscientists Access World-class Research Opportunities
Read story: Silencing the Stigma
03/07/2024
Art Gives a Voice to Bipolar Disorder
Read story: Growing Community Outreach
03/05/2024
Last year's celebration of neuroscience included the annual “Brainy Days” series with a kickoff debuting new insights into autism research.
Read story: The Path to Patent
03/01/2024
Protecting Ideas to Inventions
Read story: Palm Health Foundation Computational Brain Health Graduate Fellows
12/04/2023
Five FAU Ph.D. students, whose work embraces computational neuroscience, have been selected to receive the fellowships.
Read story: FAU Receives Grant from Community Foundation of Broward
11/07/2023
Grant will fund the expansion of the SNBI MobileMinds program.
Read story: Chemistry Assistant Professor’s Research Published
11/07/2023
Ilyas Yildirim, Ph.D., Charles Schmidt College of Science, co-authored a recently featured article in the prestigious Nucleic Acids Research journal.
Read story: New FAU Biotech Bridge Program
10/27/2023
Shailaja Allani, Ph.D., appointed as the director of the Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and the newly named FAU Biotech Bridge.
Read story: Purposeful Action in Human Infants
09/21/2023
Study uses “Aha!” detector to search for transitions from spontaneous to intentional behavior in infants.
Read story: Patent to Treat Addiction
09/11/2023
Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., and Maureen K. Hahn, Ph.D., have received a patent for a novel method to identify therapeutic agents to treat addiction.
Read story: Brain in Flux
08/31/2023
FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute Sponsors International Neuroscience Meeting
Read story: Neuroscience Graduate Program
08/24/2023
The Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute developed and oversees the Neuroscience Graduate Program that unites scientists, educators and students.
Read story: MMM Foundation Adds New Board and Committee Members
06/20/2023
Mind, Music and Movement Foundation for Neurological Disorders adds new members to its board of directors, medical and research advisory committees.
Read story: College of Medicine Works to Establish Parkinson’s Cure Center
06/05/2023
The FAU Board of Trustees will continue to discuss the logistics of the Parkinson’s Center of Excellence proposed by the College of Medicine.
Read story: Running Helps With Middle Age
05/28/2023
Long-term exercise profoundly benefits the aging brain and may prevent aging-related memory function decline.
Read story: NeuroExplorers Spring 2023 Graduation
05/27/2023
Participants in FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institutes' ASCEND NeuroExplorers after-school program graduated as "Junior Neuroscientists."
Read story: Treating Neurological Disorders
05/26/2023
Collaboration will advance scientific knowledge about the use of focused ultrasound to treat brain diseases.
Read story: Finding New Treatments for Mental Illness
05/26/2023
Postdoctoral fellow Felix Mayer, Ph.D., studies compounds to treat mental illnesses.
Read story: Model Students
05/24/2023
Computational Brain Health Graduates Join New Fellowship
Read story: Treating Pain
05/22/2023
Dean Develops Tool for Pain, with a Nod from Shark Tank
Read story: On a Mission
05/18/2023
Driving Computational Brain Science and Health
Read story: Snoozing for Brain Health
05/13/2023
Postdoctoral fellow Zoe Atherton, Ph.D., studies how sleep affects memory.
Read story: What a Difference a Mutation Makes
05/11/2023
Neuroscientists Find Differences in the Brain Between Males and Females
Read story: Careers in Brain Science in the Starting Blocks
05/05/2023
The Fall 2022 Cohort of the Neuroscience Graduate Program is Off to the Races
Read story: Stressed Out
05/03/2023
Zebrafish Study Reveals Lasting Impacts of Early-life Stress
Read story: Miscommunication is Key
05/01/2023
Ethnic Biomarkers Point to Inaccurate Measurement of Cognitive Health
Read story: Computing Connections
04/29/2023
Linking the Brain and Immune System
Read story: Bridging Sleep and Memory
04/24/2023
Postdoctoral fellow Annie Souza, Ph.D., studies how sleep transforms learned experiences into long-term memory.
Read story: Pushing Progress
04/23/2023
Pilot Grants Support New Discoveries
Read story: World Leaders in Artificial Intelligence Gather at FAU
04/21/2023
Recap of Florida Atlantic University’s Center for the Future Mind’s 2023 Mindfest conference
Read story: Neuroscience Research for the Future
04/17/2023
Postdoctoral fellow David Cinalli, Ph.D. , studies how the brain forms and recalls different forms of memory.
Read story: Unfolding Huntington's Disease
04/13/2023
How Mutant Proteins Damage Nerve Cells
Read story: ‘New Horizons in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias’ Awardees
03/31/2023
Recent collaboration establishes the “New Horizons in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)” Pilot Funding Program.
Read story: Undergraduate Researcher of the Year
03/30/2023
Steven Shatkhin, an undergraduate student in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, recently earned the Researcher of the Year Award.
Read story: Helping Hands
02/20/2023
FAU Researchers Earn $1.2M Grant to Help Amputees
Read story: Gleeful for Glia
02/21/2023
Studying Underdog Cells in the Nervous System
Read story: INTERPLAY BETWEEN SLEEP, PAIN AND SPINAL CORD STIMULATION
01/30/2023
Researchers from the Schmidt College of Medicine have unraveled the interplay between chronic pain, sleep and spinal cord stimulation, a treatment ...
Read story: FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute Opens in Jupiter
1/19/2023
Palm Health Foundation celebrated the grand opening of the Brain Institute’s new building on FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupiter, signalling a new era in neuroscience research, education, and community engagement.
Read story: FAU Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute Opens in Jupiter
1/23/2023
The official launch of the institute heralds a new era in neuroscience research, education and community engagement.