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Could Future Nerve Implants Detect and Monitor Illness?

PIK Professor Konrad Kording weighed in on a study that used nerve implants to decode the body’s electrical impulses. Kording said the research is a “sign that the field of neural decoding is growing up.”

Is Alzheimer's Disease the Next Frontier for Precision Medicine?

David Wolk of the Perelman School of Medicine described the challenges of diagnosing the varied symptoms of Alzheimer’s and the benefits of using neurological imaging to identify affected brain structures.

Addressing unseen scars of a traumatic brain injury head on

Research at Penn Med explores the lasting effect of traumatic brain injuries on the nervous system to expand how we understand physical injury to the brain and behavior.

A new study from Penn researchers Joseph Kable and Caryn Lerman linked the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex to risk tolerance.

Risk tolerance linked to amygdala and prefrontal cortex brain regions

New research links willingness to take risks to brain structure and function, specifically the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and connections between the two.

Being hungry shuts off perception of chronic pain

Finding food is a necessary survival skill, but so is avoiding pain. Research led by J. Nicholas Betley and postdoctoral researcher Amber Alhadeff showed that being hungry activates a neural pathway that inhibits the sensing and responding to chronic pain. The findings offer up new targets for treating pain.

Fly’s Blood-Brain Barrier Has Circadian Rhythms

Amita Sehgal of the Perelman School of Medicine led a research team in an investigation which used fruit flies to explore the chronobiological effects of circadian rhythms on drug administration.

'Epigenetic Landscape' Is Protective in Normal Aging, Impaired in Alzheimer's Disease, Says Study

Shelley Berger, Nancy Bonini, and Brad Johnson, of the Perelman School of Medicine co-authored a study profiling the “epigenetic landscape” of human brains with Alzheimer’s disease.

How Brain Science Found Its Way into Business School

Wharton professor Michael Platt discussed the effect of neuroscience on the “future of business education.”

Researchers prove that timed brain stimulation improves memory

Performance can be enhanced by as much as 15 percent, according to a study by Penn neuroscientists published in Nature Communications. It is the first time such a connection has been made.

Researcher awarded Swartz Fellowship to investigate mechanisms of learning and memory

Gaia Tavoni, a postdoctoral fellow of the Computational Neuroscience Initiative, has been named a Swartz Foundation Fellow for Theory in Neuroscience for her research proposal suggesting pathways to investigate the brain mechanisms involved in learning and memory.

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