How do computational processes help us understand mental health disorders and precisely tailor treatments to each individual? In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, Aanya Kasera sits down with…

PNI professor Sabine Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., has won the 2024 Golden Brain Award.

Established in 1983, the annual award given by the Minerva Foundation recognizes an intrepid scientist “…at the forefront of research for significant findings of vision and the…

In May 2024, a team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, reported that in a series of Turing tests, people could not distinguish the large language model GPT-4 from a human being. The year before, a Stanford-based group of researchers had GPT-4 take the bar exam – and the artificial intelligence passed. GPT-4…

Chronic stress, be it from the covid pandemic, conflict in the Middle East, burnout from work, or any number of reasons, is a leading trigger for mental health issues, like anxiety and depression. Yet, it’s unclear how some people manage to buck stress’ ill effects and are impervious of its insidious influence. Researchers at the Princeton…

PNI's John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics “for foundational discoveries and…

Fenna Krienen, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has received a prestigious award from the NIH to study the outsized development of the neocortex in humans, the part of…

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure.

Why? Because it’s difficult to cure what we don’t understand, and the human brain, with its billions of neurons connected by a hundred trillion synapses, is almost…

A Princeton-led collaboration with Rutgers has been awarded a $16 million federal grant to enhance the understanding of mental health disorders through the lens of computational psychiatry. Spearheaded by Princeton neuroscience and psychology professor…

A new mathematical model offers a better explanation of how dopamine surges in the brain when receiving a reward. The findings from researchers at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) may help improve both AI for smarter tech, which relies on similar principles underlying how dopamine is thought to impact reward learning. It might also…

Catherine Peña, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, has received the Society for Neuroscience’s…

For the first time, two senior postdoctoral researchers earned the annual Innovator Awards this year at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI), along with the traditional two awards reserved for pairs of collaborating interdisciplinary faculty members.

“There’s a dearth of funding opportunities for senior postdoctoral researchers,”…

Work led by psychology graduate student Zaid Zada in the lab of PNI professor Uri Hasson, Ph.D. finds that when people are talking with each other, spoken words, rather than body language or tone of voice,…