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Established two decades ago, the essential tremor brain bank at Columbia has been instrumental in revealing the source and biology of a common but understudied neurodegenerative disorder.
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Recordings from thousands of neurons—and geometry—have revealed how a person’s brain abstractly represents acts of reasoning.
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To make it to the Olympics, elite athletes spend countless hours preparing not only their bodies but their brains, as well.
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Columbia scientists have witnessed what happens in the human brain when curiosity arises, the first time the subjective feeling has been linked to a representation in the brain.
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- February 13, 2013
Study in Nature could lead to taste modulators to help control our appetite for salty food
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- February 12, 2013
ALS researchers find profoundly disrupted communication between motor neurons and a neighboring type of glial cell called "astrocytes."
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- February 7, 2013
Columbia's Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Center, legacy of baseball great, focuses on patient care and clinical trials.
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- February 7, 2013
CUMC’s Christopher Henderson, PhD will serve as scientific director.
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- February 6, 2013
CUMC neuroscientist Asa Abeliovich and his team have identified a protein trafficking defect within brain cells that may underlie common non-familial forms of Parkinson's disease.
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- February 1, 2013
FlyWalker software program measures walk of fruit fly, genetic model for neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s.
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- January 18, 2013
Neurogenesis—the production of new neurons—may play a potential role in treating impaired pattern separation, which is associated with PTSD.
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The Wall Street JournalDecember 13, 2012Columbia will add 130,000 sq. ft. at the new Jerome L. Greene Science Center, and an additional 50,000 sq. ft. in existing buildings at CUMC.
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- December 5, 2012
Richard Mayeux was elected Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his work on the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease.
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- November 15, 2012
Link between kidney defects and neurodevelopmental delays in kids
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