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Past Request for Proposals: Dana Center Planning Grant 2022

RFP for past planning grant for Dana Centers for Neuroscience & Society. Requests were due July 6, 2022
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How We Decide: The Neuronal Reward Signal

Using electrophysiologic measures of neuronal activity, we tested theories of reward and decision-making and have found neuronal mechanisms in circuits including dopamine neurons, the striatum, the frontal cortex, and the amygdala that reflect reward and decisions.
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Understanding Human Decision-Making: Neuroeconomics

In the past few decades, neuroscientists have made strides towards understanding where in the brain subjective value is represented and steps towards understanding how it is constructed.
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From Fractured Genomes to Broken Minds

The discovery of genetic copy-number variants and growing data on their links to mental disorders suggest new paths of investigation and new targets for therapies.
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Finding Clues to Schizophrenia Outside Neurons

Ariel Y. Deutch, Ph.D. James G. Blakemore Chair of Psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center  View article as PDF In 1972 the distinguished neurologist Fred Plum famously labeled efforts to reveal structural changes in the brain in schizophrenia the “graveyard of neuropathologists.” This conclusion came on the heels of research dating […]
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A Bayesian Approach to the Brain

Florent Meyniel, Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Neurospin, CEA, University Paris-Saclay, France View Article as PDF Bayesian concepts are appealing to many researchers in fundamental and applied research, including neuroscience. Bayesian tools, part of probability theory, are useful whenever quantitative analysis is needed, such as in statistics, data mining, or forecasting. However, Bayesian concepts have much […]
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Advances in Our Knowledge of Stroke Mechanisms and Therapy

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A description of our current knowledge of the mechanisms and current treatments for ischemic stroke by two experts in the field.
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Disorders of Consciousness: Brain Death, Coma, and the Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States

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The authors present two scenarios on what are the disorders of consciousness: wakefulness, awareness, consciousness, coma, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and brain death.
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Truth, Lies, and False Memories: Neuroscience in the Courtroom

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There are many areas in which breakthroughs in neuroscience, and neuroimaging in particular, have informed and will continue to inform the courts.
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Why Studies of Fighting Fruit Flies Are Relevant to Understanding Human Aggression

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It may surprise some people to learn that fruit flies fight.  But male Drosophila melanogaster (more accurately called “vinegar flies”) do fight–to gain access to resources such as food or females.

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