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The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience to Keren Haroush, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Jerry L. Chen, PhD, of the University of Zurich. The award recognizes two promising young scientists for outstanding research and educational pursuit in an

Every day we make decisions based on predicting what someone else will do—from deciding whether the driver approaching an intersection will stop for the red light to determining whether a particular negotiation strategy will result in a desired outcome. Now a study by Harvard Medical School investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital

Congratulations for Raymundo Baez for receiving the NARSAD fellowship and the MGH fellowship!

The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, "avatar", monkey, US scientists report. Brain scans read the master monkey's mind and were used to electrically stimulate the avatar's spinal cord, resulting in controlled movement. The team hope the method can be refined to allow paralysed people

Congratulations to Mohsen for receiving the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth.

The HHMI Medical Fellows Program gives students a chance to focus on a research project full-time and determine how they can incorporate research into their professional careers.

Maryam Shanechi used to study wireless communications systems. Now she investigates a far more complex network: the billions of neurons that make up the human brain. Shanechi, a neuroengineer at the University of Southern California, is trying to crack the neural code to develop better brain-machine interfaces. Existing devices simply translate

We meet in a pub, we have a few drinks, some dinner and then you lean in for a kiss. You predict, based on our previous interactions, that the kiss will be reciprocated – rather than landing you with a slap in the face. All our social interactions require us to