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Engaging Professor

USC Dornsife’s Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is awarded for her success in engaging with the wider community on the issues and importance of neuroscience. By Andrea Bennett January 8, 2014 Mary Helen Immordino-Yang of USC Dornsife emphasized the importance of getting the public interested in the sciences: “We do this work ultimately so that it can…Continue Reading Engaging Professor

Worth Crowing About

By Robert Perkins USC Dornsife’s Jennifer Achiro, a neuroscience doctoral student in Sarah Bottjer’s laboratory, is first author on a songbird study that could lead to better treatment of language disorders in children. USC Dornsife scientists have discovered a population of neurons in the brains of juvenile songbirds that are necessary for allowing the birds…Continue Reading Worth Crowing About

A computer simulation displaying a map of sensory space within the brain. While maps of sensory space are ubiquitous in the brain, computer simulations can be used to study the map formation problem. In the figure, color indicates the orientation turning preference of each neuron; gray lines highlight the distortion between the physical neuron locations of the brain surface and the location of the cell’s preferred stimulus in the visual field (colored dot). Figure provided by Rishabh Jain. (Mel Lab)

…Continue Reading A computer simulation displaying a map of sensory space within the brain. While maps of sensory space are ubiquitous in the brain, computer simulations can be used to study the map formation problem. In the figure, color indicates the orientation turning preference of each neuron; gray lines highlight the distortion between the physical neuron locations of the brain surface and the location of the cell’s preferred stimulus in the visual field (colored dot). Figure provided by Rishabh Jain. (Mel Lab)

USC sponsers Young Researchers Program

The USC Young Researchers Program enables those typically underrepresented within the scientific community access to research. Through laboratory exposure and group presentations on research, this program stimulates a passion for science in both its young participants and USC mentors. The USC Neuroscience Graduate Program is a proud sponsor of the Young Researchers Program and is…Continue Reading USC sponsers Young Researchers Program

Functional activation of dorsal striatum (d-CPu) and rostral secondary motor cortex (rostral M2) are attenuated after dopaminergic deafferentation of the d-CPu and are augmented by 4 weeks of exercise training (ET). (Holschneider Lab)

Functional activation of dorsal striatum (d-CPu) and rostral secondary motor cortex (rostral M2) are attenuated after dopaminergic deafferentation of the d-CPu and are augmented by 4 weeks of exercise training (ET). (Holschneider Lab)…Continue Reading Functional activation of dorsal striatum (d-CPu) and rostral secondary motor cortex (rostral M2) are attenuated after dopaminergic deafferentation of the d-CPu and are augmented by 4 weeks of exercise training (ET). (Holschneider Lab)

The Saban Research Institute Organizes Forum on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Careers

LOS ANGELES (May 10, 2013) The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently held the event “Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM): Designing, Developing and Delivering Change.”The program was organized as a special celebration in honor of Cheryl Saban, PhD, Haim Saban, and the Saban Family Foundation, for a decade of…Continue Reading The Saban Research Institute Organizes Forum on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Careers