This summer, Christeen Samuel, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania from New York City, spent 10 weeks in western Germany using technology to observe how the brain changes when a person makes an impulsive, aggressive choice, such as road rage. The research opportunity in Germany came about when Samuel consulted her University Scholars mentor, Ruben Gur, a neuropsychologist in [...]
Teresa Karrer received a full doctoral scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) that supports her in working on her PhD project entitled "Automated screening of impaired cognitive domains in schizophrenia". This government-funded, merit based scholarship is awarded to outstanding doctoral candidates (300 students granted per year). Congratulations, Teresa!
Daniel Alcalá-López was selected to receive a Merit Abstract Award for the 2017 OHBM Annual Meeting in Vancouver for his submitted abstract - Learning the neurobiology of social behavior from data: Four networks underlying social cognition. This award is designed to assist with offsetting the costs associated with traveling to and offsetting the costs associated with attending the [...]