Research News
Meghana Vagwala from the Dzirasa Lab named Marshall Scholar
December 5, 2017
Two Duke University students and one Duke graduate are among the 43 recipients of the prestigious...
Inactivating Piezo1 Ion Channels
November 28, 2017
Research from Jason Wu in the Grandl Lab published in Cell Reports on November 28 explains how...
How Your Brain Wiring Drives Social Interactions
November 15, 2017
Humans and many other animals express a range of social behaviors, from cooperation to aggression...
Why head and face pain causes more suffering
November 13, 2017
Hate headaches? The distress you feel is not all in your—well, head. People consistently rate pain...
Star-Shaped Brain Cells Orchestrate Neural Connections
November 9, 2017
Dysfunction of intricate astrocyte cells may underlie devastating diseases like autism,...
Piecing Together MS
October 30, 2017
A single symptom doesn’t tell much of a story. However, like an artist collecting and organizing...
Huanghe Yang wins NIH New Innovator Award
October 11, 2017
Huanghe Yang has been named one of the the recipients of a 2017 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award...
Lo and Team Aim to Improve Brain Cancer Drug Testing
October 3, 2017
Neurobiologist Donald Lo, Ph.D., and cancer researcher Albert Baldwin, Ph.D., believed they would...
One Powerful Cell Makes or Breaks Your Habits
September 7, 2017
Researchers pinpoint the neurons responsible for orchestrating habitual behavior Some habits are...
Neurotechnology and the Future of Hope
August 25, 2017
Bill Kochevar wears a bright red shirt and what looks like a cast on his right arm. As he raises a...
Researchers awarded $3 million Brain Initiative Award
August 18, 2017
Treating psychiatric and motor disorders without surgery or life-long pharmacology is a challenging...
Parallel inhibitory and excitatory sensorimotor loops control active sensing
August 4, 2017
The Wang lab, in collaboration with Martin Deschene’s lab, discovered parallel disynaptic sensory...
The eardrum moves when they eyes move: A multisensory effect on the mechanics of hearing
July 25, 2017
A new publication from the Groh Lab was published in bioRxiv and featured in New Scientists in July...
New publication from the Grandl Lab
June 20, 2017
Research from the Grandl Lab published in Cell Reports on June 20 explains how mechanosensitive...
Spotlight on Research: Corollary Discharge
June 1, 2017
Our bodies react to sensory stimuli from our environment. For example, if we touch a hot surface,...