Professor Sabine Kastner has been awarded the 2023 Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience. Please read more here. Congratulations, Sabine!

A new study conducted in mice and published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature suggests resilience can be learned, and can even be reinforced.

Dr. Cate Peña, an Assistant Professor in PNI, was selected as a New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Robertson Neuroscience Investigator. The NYSCF Investigator Program fosters and encourages promising early career scientists whose cutting-edge research holds the potential to accelerate treatments and cures.

Dr. Fenna Krienen, an Assistant Professor at PNI, was awarded a $6.9M grant as part of a global collaboration with the Allen Institute to develop comprehensive, single cell atlases of the human and nonhuman primate brain.

Bradley Dickerson, one of PNI’s newest faculty members, and two former PNI postdocs, Christine Constantinople currently of NYU, and Kanaka Rajan of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, have been awarded the prestigious McKnight Scholarship.

Hope Kean (Neuroscience, '18) was recently featured in a NY Times story entitled "The Curious Hole in My Head".

Dr. Cate Peña, an Assistant Professor in PNI, was recently awarded a five-year, $3.7M Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) R01 from NIMH.

Rebekah Rashford and Iris Stone are the first two recipients of NIH's National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship in the history of PNI.

How do different brain regions contribute to the accumulation of evidence so that we can make decisions? A new study in eLife by Lucas Pinto, Carlos Brody and David Tank from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) changes the way that we think about evidence accumulation by showing that cortical areas store and process information over different timescales.

Sabine Kastner, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, has been named the new Editor in Chief of JNeurosci. Professor Kastner will be following outgoing EiC Marina Picciotto of Yale University and will begin her appointment on January 1, 2023.

Dr. Murthy is assuming the directorship as Jonathan Cohen, the Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor in Neuroscience, and David Tank, the Henry Hillman Professor in Neuroscience, are stepping down.

Identifying an animal’s inner state based only on its actions is a significant challenge in behavioral science. Two new studies from labs at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute apply an expressive new mathematical tool to identify internal states based only on subjects’ behavior and to examine how changes in internal state impact the choices the subjects made.