Research News
Improving Motor Skills through Reward and Punishment
February 27, 2018
The complex skills underlying verbal and musical expression can be learned without external...
Facing Pain Head-On
February 21, 2018
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) training award supports Ph.D...
Mai-Anh Vu wins 2018 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
January 26, 2018
The Duke Graduate School has selected fifth year Neurobiology Graduate Training Program student Mai...
When the Eyes Move, The Eardrums Move, Too
January 24, 2018
The eyes and ears team up to interpret sights and sounds around us Simply moving the eyes triggers...
How VR Is Helping Paraplegics Walk Again
January 17, 2018
Imagine being told you will never walk again. For paraplegics, this is a reality. But it may be...
Neurobiology Photography Contest
January 10, 2018
The Neurobiology Photography Contest is an opportunity for the Duke community to display...
A scientist explores the mysteries of the gut-brain connection
December 8, 2017
The brain in your head and the one in your gut are always exchanging info. But how do they do it?...
New edition of seminal Neuroscience textbook released
December 5, 2017
The 6th edition of the seminal textbook Neurosciencehas just been published and is now available in...
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...