Professor Tor Wager joined PBS in 2019 as the inaugural Diana L. Taylor 1977 Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience. Professor Wager leads the Breaking the Neural Code academic cluster.
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Research led by Assistant Professor Caroline Robertson has identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism which offers an objective way to potentially diagnose autism in the future.
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The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences congratulates the class of 2019, which included over 100 psychology and neuroscience majors. Several members of the graduating class received awards at the department's annual picnic.
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Cara Van Uden ’19 has won this year's Neukom Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Computational Science for her work with Professor James Haxby.
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Assistant Professor Luke Chang has been awarded a 2019 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions
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Professors Katherine Nautiyal and Caroline Robertson joined the PBS faculty in July, 2018.
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Armin Tavakkoli ’20, Psychology major, has been awarded a 2019-20 Senior Fellowship for his research with Professors David Bucci and Travis Todd.
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Brown University Professor Rebecca Burwell delivered a talk at Dartmouth on November 16. She is pictured here with Professor Emeritus Robert Leaton.
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Travis Todd, a Research Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, has received a four-year K01 research grant through the National Institute of Mental Health. Professor David Bucci will head his mentoring team.
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PBS Professor Jay Hull and colleagues studied data from research on video games and violence, and found that teens playing violent video games “did become more aggressive over time. But the changes in behavior were not big,” reports Scientific American.
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