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Autism: nature, nurture, or both?

Communications Department — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:30:09 +0000

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Brains on babies

Communications Department — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:00:15 +0000

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Fostering the future of science

Nick Wurm — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:30:20 +0000

Science comes first in STEM for good reason. Whether one pursues a career in technology, engineering, or medicine, all that work is rooted in scientific knowledge and experimentation. At ��ϳԹ��Դ, education and research go hand in hand. That’s true at every level and applied in each initiative, including the CSHL Partners for...

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Dehydration’s role in learning and memory

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:30:10 +0000

How do we learn to remember? At the most fundamental level, it’s all about chemicals and electricity. Beyond their roles in diet and nutrition, calcium and magnesium work as ions, or charged particles, in the brain. Magnesium can block a channel found within brain receptors known as NMDARs. When the blockade lifts, calcium can pass...

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Helen Hou partners with International Brain Laboratory

Caroline Cosgrove — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:00:34 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ Assistant Professor Helen Hou and her lab have been selected as one of the seven inaugural project partners of the International Brain Laboratory (IBL). Supported by the Simons Foundation, the IBL is a global collaboration of independent labs seeking to bring about a better understanding of the brain. The 22-member consortium...

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What makes a mouse sing?

Communications Department — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:20 +0000

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SBS awards honorary degree to James H. Eberwine

Communications Department — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:30:26 +0000

The ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) School of Biological Sciences has awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree to molecular neuroscientist James H. Eberwine, Ph.D. Eberwine is a professor of systems pharmacology and translational therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as co-director of the Penn Program in Single Cell Biology and...

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What can singing mice say about human speech?

Jen A. Miller — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:00:07 +0000

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capability required some enormous leap in brain complexity. A study published today in Nature suggests otherwise. Alston’s singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina), a small rodent from the cloud forests of...

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Say Cheese3D: A new model for tracking facial expression

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:05 +0000

Nature Neuroscience, Kyle Daruwalla, Irene Nozal Martin, and colleagues at ��ϳԹ��Դ introduce a computer vision system called Cheese3D. As senior author Helen Hou puts it, “Cheese3D turns the face into a window into the brain.” Image: Kyra Wang" data-description="A pencil drawing of three bats in different poses, overlaid with blue perspective grid lines." />Love, pain, joy, fear, desire: the full spectrum of emotion resides in facial expression. We grasp this almost intuitively. However, we still lack a quantifiable understanding of the nuanced relationship between the face and the brain. We haven’t yet found a way to precisely measure and reliably interpret the full complexity of facial expressions in...

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Fish oil may increase CTE risk after brain injury

Nick Wurm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:30:07 +0000

Neurodegenerative conditions like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are often called a silent pandemic. Even so-called “mild” concussions, like those sustained in contact sports, may have a cascading effect over time. CTE symptoms such as mood swings, memory loss, and depression may not appear for decades. A new study suggests one common dietary supplement may, in...

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Immune response to cancer may cause brain disease

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Consider two seemingly unrelated medical puzzles. First: Every day, our bodies produce hundreds of billions of new cells, many of which are mutated. If cancer arises from cellular mutation, why don’t we all have the disease all the time? Second: Severe autoimmune conditions like lupus and multiple sclerosis often strike without warning. No one knows...

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Corina Amor Vegas awarded $750K MIND Prize

Gina Dipietro — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:20 +0000

��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) Assistant Professor Corina Amor Vegas has been named a recipient of the Pershing Square Foundation’s 2026 Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize. This coveted prize is awarded annually to five to seven early-to-mid-career investigators who dare to challenge conventional thinking around neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, which...

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A new theory of brain development

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:00:18 +0000

Your brain begins as a single cell. When all is said and done, it will house an incredibly complex and powerful network of some 170 billion cells. How does it organize itself along the way? ��ϳԹ��Դ neuroscientists have come up with a surprisingly simple answer that could have far-reaching implications for biology...

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AI, monkey brains, and the virtue of small thinking

Samuel Diamond — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:30 +0000

What does it take to make AI that can pass as human? Try massive clusters of supercomputers. To build human-like intelligence, computer scientists think big. However, for neuroscientists who want to understand how real brains work, today’s AI only goes so far, as it replaces one deeply complicated system (the brain) with another (AI). How...

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Let’s get on pancreatic cancer’s nerves

Margaret Osborne — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:54:57 +0000

Pancreatic cancer has a lot of nerve. Notoriously tricky to detect, the disease also often resists traditional therapy. So, researchers are urgently looking for new ways to disrupt tumor formation. Though scientists know that the nervous system can help cancer spread, its role in the disease’s earliest stages remains unclear. “One phenomenon that is known...

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Day & night: Cancer disrupts the brain’s natural rhythm

Nick Wurm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:00:32 +0000

“The brain is an exquisite sensor of what’s going on in your body,” says ��ϳԹ��Դ Assistant Professor Jeremy Borniger. “But it requires balance. Neurons need to be active or inactive at the right times. If that rhythm goes out of sync even a little bit, it can change the function of the...

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Singing mice speak volumes

Samuel Diamond — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:00:25 +0000

All mice squeak, but only some sing. Scotinomys teguina, aka Alston’s singing mice, hail from the cloud forests of Costa Rica. More than 2,000 miles north, ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL) neuroscientists study these musically gifted mammals to better understand the evolutionary origins of vocal communication. Their research could also tell us something about strokes,...

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Is an AI singularity possible?

Nick Fiore — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:30:37 +0000

How close is artificial intelligence to matching biological intelligence? When will computers be able to think and act as humans do? If you ask one of the big tech companies currently developing AI, the answer will likely be “soon.” But for CSHL NeuroAI Scholars Kyle Daruwalla and Christian Pehle, the possibility of a so-called AI...

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A doorstop for the brain’s electrical gates

Jennifer Michalowski — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:00:04 +0000

Nature, reveals the molecular mechanisms that keep the brain’s NMDA receptors fully or partially open." data-description="Image of NMDA receptors in different positions" />As information zings from cell to cell inside the brain, bursts of electricity spur its transmission. At ��ϳԹ��Դ (CSHL), scientists have turned their attention to the tiny pores that let charged ions enter a cell—and the molecular gatekeepers that help control them. CSHL structural biologist Hiro Furukawa studies NMDA receptors (NMDARs). These...

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The hitchhiker’s guide to the smelliverse

Communications Department — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:30:23 +0000

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