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!
The first Spring School of the IRTG 2150 was held from April 26th to April 29th, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The four days were focused around presentations of ongoing PhD projects from more than 30 students investigating the neural circuits of impulsivity and aggression, the modulation of these networks in patients, and establishing new methodological [...]