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It’s not you—it’s cancer

Jennifer Michalowski — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:00:51 +0000

AI generated voice with Tobias Janowitz’s actual voice Cancer ravages both body and mind. If you’ve ever lost loved ones to the disease, you might recognize the physical and emotional changes cancer patients often endure during their final months. They seem drained of strength and spirit. Even people who’ve maintained a positive outlook throughout their...

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Are you sure you heard that sound?

Jasmine Lee — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:00:37 +0000

A new study from ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Research Investigator Katharina Schmack and Adjunct Professor Adam Kepecs uncovered how hallucinations are produced in human and mouse brains. Their new mouse model for hallucination-like behaviors should help uncover mechanisms and treatments for schizophrenia. Schmack was working as a psychiatrist at the Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin studying psychosis...

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A better way to trace neuronal pathways

Peter Tarr — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:00:19 +0000

Moving forward by moving backward more effectively Cold Spring Harbor, NY — New technologies have been likened, famously, to magic. At first, even the few who understand how they work have a tendency to sit back and marvel. Soon, flaws and limitations are detected and the invention process begins again, resulting, almost always, in improvements....

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Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

Peter Tarr — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:07:30 +0000

At noon every Tuesday from September through June, scenes from a revolution in neuroscience are playing out at ��ϳԹ��Դ. Week after week, over 100 scientists cram themselves into a ground-floor meeting room in the Beckman Laboratory. It’s standing-room only as everyone in the Neuroscience Program settles in to hear details of the...

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CSHL’s Kepecs receives BRAIN Initiative grant to develop tools to guide behavioral research

Peter Tarr — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:00:41 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Neuroscientist Adam Kepecs of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) has been selected to lead a new research project that is part of the US government’s “BRAIN” Initiative, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today. Kepecs, a CSHL Professor, will work with colleagues to develop conceptual infrastructure for behavioral neuroscience research....

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Is confidence measurable?

Andrea Alfano — Tue, 16 May 2017 20:17:45 +0000

Confidence is “not just a feeling,” according to neuroscientist Adam Kepecs. Finding the confidence-calculating circuitry in our brains has huge implications for the future of psychiatry. hen someone asks you how confident you are about something, you probably don’t offer an answer like “5” or some other number. You’re more likely to say “very,” or...

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Dopamine neurons factor ambiguity into predictions that enable us to “win big and win often”

Jennifer Michalowski — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:00:49 +0000

Jynto" data-description="" />Cold Spring Harbor, NY — In the struggle of life, evolution rewards animals that master their circumstances, especially when the environment changes fast. If there is a recipe for success, it is not: savor your victories when you are fortunate to have them. Rather it is: win big, and win often. To make winning decisions,...

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Our brain uses statistics to calculate confidence, make decisions

Communications Department — Wed, 04 May 2016 12:00:48 +0000

The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The directions, which came via cell phone, were a little garbled, but as you understood them: “Turn left at the 3rd light and go straight; the restaurant will be on your...

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Alumnus Josh Sanders makes neuroscience research tools open and affordable

Communications Department — Mon, 02 May 2016 21:22:02 +0000

Two hundred and fifty dollars doesn’t buy much for a research lab. Polymerase, a few primers, five kilos of mouse chow, half a MATLAB license, or a fiber-coupled LED—almost. The cost of research supplies presents a huge burden for any lab, but can be especially challenging for researchers in countries with minimal science budgets, or...

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Surprised? Cholinergic neurons send brain-wide broadcasts enabling us to learn from the unexpected

Communications Department — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:42:04 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — When a large combat unit, widely dispersed in dense jungle, goes to battle, no single soldier knows precisely how his actions are affecting the unit’s success or failure. But in modern armies, every soldier is connected via an audio link that can instantly receive broadcasts—reporting both positive and negative surprises—based...

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Drs. Kepecs and Li honored with 2015 NARSAD Independent Investigator grant awards

Communications Department — Tue, 12 May 2015 15:20:33 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Two neuroscientists at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) have been awarded prestigious NARSAD Independent Investigator grants. The announcement was made by the New York City-based Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF). Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., and Bo Li, Ph.D., both CSHL associate professors, were among 40 mid-career scientists from 30 institutions in...

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Swartz Centers dedication

Jill Stone — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:23:34 +0000

An official recognition of Jerome Swartz for his 25+ years of friendship and generous support of ��ϳԹ��Դ neuroscience programs was held on Wednesday, April 1 with the dedication of the Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neuroscience and Neural Mechanisms of Cognition. Jerry, co-founder and former CEO of Symbol Technologies was the 1999 recipient...

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Gambling with confidence: Are you sure about that?

Communications Department — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:00:11 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Life is a series of decisions, ranging from the mundane to the monumental. And each decision is a gamble, carrying with it the chance to second-guess. Did I make the right turn at that light? Did I choose the right college? Was this the right job for me? Our desire...

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CSHL’s Adam Kepecs receives McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

Communications Department — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:42 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Associate Professor Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., of ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) has received the 2014 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award from The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. The award, which provides $100,000 per year for three years, supports innovative efforts to solve problems of neurological and psychiatric diseases, especially those related...

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CSHL neuroscientists identify class of cortical inhibitory neurons that specialize in disinhibition

Peter Tarr — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 18:00:08 +0000

An inhibitory neuron type is found to specifically suppress the activation of other inhibitory neurons in cerebral cortex. Cold Spring Harbor, NY — The cerebral cortex contains two major types of neurons: principal neurons that are excitatory and interneurons that are inhibitory, all interconnected within the same network. New research now reveals that one class...

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‘Should I stay or should I go?’ CSHL scientists link brain cell types to behavior

Communications Department — Sun, 26 May 2013 18:00:58 +0000

The activity of two specific neuron types correlates with foraging decisions in mice Cold Spring Harbor, NY — You are sitting on your couch flipping through TV channels trying to decide whether to stay put or get up for a snack. Such everyday decisions about whether to “stay” or to “go” are supported by a brain...

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Neuroscience research brief: Rats take high-speed multisensory snapshots

Communications Department — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:00:19 +0000

Smell and touch, sniffing and “whisking,” are locked in sync Cold Spring Harbor, NY — When animals are on the hunt for food they likely use many senses, and scientists have wondered how the different senses work together. New research from the laboratory of CSHL neuroscientist and Assistant Professor Adam Kepecs shows that when rats...

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2010 highlights of CSHL awards and honors

Communications Department — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A runner-up for Science’s “Breakthrough of the Year for 2010 was a Publication of the full nuclear genome of Neandertal December 17, 2010 A runner-up for Science’s “Breakthrough of the Year” for 2010 was publication of the full nuclear genome of Neandertal, based on highly corrupted samples nearly 40,000 years old. The feat was made...

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Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., neuroscientist at ��ϳԹ��Դ, is named a 2010 John Merck Scholar

Peter Tarr — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:28:58 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), has been selected as a John Merck Scholar for 2010. The announcement was made by the John Merck Fund, which administers the awards program. The John Merck Scholars Program in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in Children, founded in 1990,...

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��ϳԹ��Դ’s Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., named a Klingenstein Fellow in the Neurosciences

Peter Tarr — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:17:09 +0000

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — For the second time in less than half a year, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) neuroscientist Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., has received an important fellowship award. It has just been announced that Kepecs, an assistant professor, has won a 2009 Klingenstein Fellowship in the Neurosciences. This past February, Kepecs was named a Research...

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