Congratulations to PNI's Director Mala Murthy, who was awarded a 2024 Pilot Award from…

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers, co-led by PNI’s Sebastian Seung, published a…

Congratulations to Augustin Hennings, a postdoctoral fellow working in the labs of PNI professors Yael Niv and Kenneth Norman, on being awarded a prestigious two-year National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. His research tackles a fundamental challenge in anxiety treatment: why symptoms often return after…

We've all been there: one bad oyster ruins seafood forever. Now, Princeton neuroscientists have pinpointed how the brain stores memories for these powerful food aversions in mice. The new results reveal how “one-shot learning”, where a single experience creates lasting memories, unfolds in rodents, which might shed light on how similar memories form in people, such as how a single traumatic event can lead to PTSD.

The Princeton Neuroscience Network (PNN) was excited to host the Princeton Regional Brain Bee for the fifth year on February 15, 2025. This competition is the first step in an international event testing…

Team to build on the fruit fly’s newly mapped “connectome” and develop innovative tools for measuring and manipulating every neuron in real time.

A new mathematical framework uncovers how the brain’s prefrontal cortex processes mixed signals to guide decision making, offering fresh insights for both clinical care and next-generation AI.

Princeton Nobel Laureate in Physics John Hopfield and alumnus Fei-Fei Li of the Class of 1999…

Princeton neuroscience researchers Sam Wang, Ph.D., and Esra Sefik, Ph.D., were recently awarded a New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) pilot grant to investigate how dendrites, the nerve-cell branches that connect neurons, change over time. Their goal: to better understand neurological disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease, in which these dendritic structures often go awry. 

Kim ’11 returns to Princeton this spring as an incoming assistant professor with a dual appointment in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute. Her research focuses on engineering new molecular tools to replicate the therapeutic benefits of certain drugs, such as psychedelics to relieve anxiety, while minimizing unwanted effects like hallucinations.

Simple choices can arise from diverse brain strategies, shedding light on the origins of individual variability

Jeffery Chen is a senior undergraduate at Princeton studying neuroscience and theater. His debut musical, A Life Worth Living, combines aspects of both these fields, while also drawing from a deep well of personal experience. The show recently finished showing on campus at Princeton University, where it ran from 11/8 to 11/16, and was…