Neuroscience Institute

Ongoing Events:

• Brains & Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series
• NIBL, Neurophilosophy, Spineless Neuroscience, Neuroendocrinology and more...

• For more information about current events click here. 

  At the Institute:

  • The Neuroscience Institute adds new faculty members. Dr. Geert de Vries and Dr. Nancy Forger will join GSU as professors in the Neuroscience Institute and members of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. Read more… 

  • The first Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowships for Neuroscience graduate students will be awarded in the Fall 2011 semester. Read more…

  • The new NEUROSCIENCE MAJOR is starting this Fall semester with NEUR 3000, Principles of Neuroscience, to be followed in the Spring semester with the full complement of courses for the major.  Read more....

  • Earn your PhD in Neuroscience at Georgia State.
    go to graduate program page.
  • Neurophilosophy Masters degree. The Philosophy department in collaboration with the Neuroscience Institute has a neurophilosophy track in their graduate program.
    Read a news story about this... | Go to the Neurophilosophy website...

  • GSU’s Second Century Initiative prepares the University for substantial growth in neuroscience and behavior. Read more…

   Research & Community News:

  • Funding for Neuroethics at Georgia State, read more...
  • Student wins Suttles Fellowship. read more...
    
  • Neuroscience professor named an AAAS Fellow. read more...
  • Tiffany Love-Chezem, a doctoral student in the lab of Professor Charles Derby, won best poster award from the Division of Neurobiology at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology this year. The title of her poster was "Chemical defense through sensory disruption in spiny lobster-sea hare interactions".  The student winners will receive a certificate, a check for $150 each, and a subscription to Developmental Neurobiology.
  • Researchers find gender-specific differences in the brain’s responses to abuse. read more...
  • Neuroscience graduate class publishes a guide bridging biology and mathematics for visiting speaker's seminar on the mathematical modeling of obesity.read more...
  • Paul Katz and his research team have made some important discoveries about the role of evolution in producing behaviors that are similar across different species. read more...
  • Bradley Cooke, assistant professor of neuroscience at GSU, has found that in male Siberian hamsters, a part of the brain called the medial nucleus of the amygdala increased by nearly 25 percent during puberty. The results have been published in a new study in the Journal of Neuroendocrinology.  read more...
  • GSU scientist awarded NSF Career grant to study decision making.  read more...
  • Neuroscience Institute Core Faculty highlighted for their part of a 1.7 million dollar grant read more...
  • Sea slug brains rewire themselves in response to injury. read more...
  • Researchers find differences in how adolescent girls’ and boys’ brains react to peer interaction. read more...
  • Researcher garners major award to further explore mechanisms of obesity. read more...
  • Brains rule! : Expo helps ignite middle schoolers' neuroscience curiosity. read more...
  •  Dean's Inaugural Faculty Fund Award recognizes two Neuroscience Institute Associate Faculty. read more...
  • Unlocking the Mind's Mysteries: Georgia State neuroscientists work to expand the understanding of the brain. read more...

    The composition of the Neuroscience Institute reflects the interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to neuroscience that characterizes research at Georgia State University. Read more about the Neuroscience Institute...

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