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Drs. Audrey Brumback and Jon Pierce receive grant from NIH to study the role or genetics in autism

August 15, 2023

The important role of genetics in autism development has become increasingly obvious. Many genes implicated in autism are so fundamental to basic neurobiology that species as diverse as worms and humans share them. After discovering that natural variability in autism-related genes correlates with alterations in worm social behavior, Audrey Brumback, MD, PhD, pediatric neurologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, and Jon Pierce, PhD, in UT Austin’s College of Natural Sciences, hypothesized that these changes could provide a

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Dr. Alex Huth and colleagues publish in Nature Neuroscience

May 2, 2023

Dr. Alex Huth and colleagues in the department of Computer Science published a research article in Nature Neuroscience entiteld "Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings".

This research produced a non-invasive decoder that reconstructs continuous language from cortical semantic representations recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and revealed the viability of non-invasive language brain–computer interface.

Tang J, LeBel A, Jain S and Huth AG. Semantic reconstruction of continuous

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Dr. Mike Mauk receives 2023 President's Associates Teaching Award

March 7, 2023
Dr. Mauk was one of seven faculty across UT honored with the President's Associates Teaching Award.  This award recognizes great teaching of undergraduates in the core curriculum. Recipients are UT Austin’s educational innovators whose commitment and performance not only instruct, but inspire. Dr. Mauk also won a CNS Teaching Excellence Award in 2019 as well as the Read more about Dr. Mike Mauk receives 2023 President's Associates Teaching Award

INS Graduate Student Dylan Kirsch publishes in Behavioural Brain Research

December 8, 2022

INS Graduate Student Dylan Kirsch published an article in Behavioural Brain Research entitled "Neural underpinnings of expecting alcohol: Placebo alcohol administration alters nucleus accumbens resting state functional connectivity".  

This research probed the neural basis of the "placebo response phenomemon" whereby an individuals’ beliefs about whether they have consumed alcohol, irrespective of the actual presence of alcohol, can determine level of alcohol consumption and impact social behavior. Results suggest the placebo response to alcohol is

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Dr. Laura Fonken receives Frank A. Beach Early Career Award

November 3, 2022

Congratuations to Dr. Laura Fonken is this year's recipiant of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Frank A. Beach Early Career Award!

This award recognizes an early-career scientist who has established an independent research program which exhibits the potential for continued significant impacts on the field of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.  Dr. Fonken’s research focuses on how interactions between the

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Dr. Micky Marinelli receives 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award!

October 11, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Micky Marinelli for recieivng a 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award!

The College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award celebrates the members of the CNS faculty that excel in the classroom. Recipients of CNS Teaching Excellence Awards are educational innovators, who embody and demonstrate commitment to CNS's mission: To provide an excellent, research-oriented education in science, mathematics and computing that fosters the success of its students, to discover important new knowledge through research and to create an intellectually and

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Audrey Duarte's lab publishes in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

October 3, 2022

Dr. Audrey Duarte's lab published a research article in Journal of Cognitive Neurosceince entitled "Neural Reinstatement of Overlapping Memories in Young and Older Adults".  This research investigatted why older adults have more difficulty resolving competition between relevant and irrelevant memories. Duarte's lab used used Encoding-Retrieval Similarity (ERS) analysis – which measures the similarity of neural patterns during encoding and retrieval –  to better understand how young and older adults process memories. They found that older adults’ susceptibility to old

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Dr. Robbe Goris receives funding from NEI

September 20, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Robbe Goris on his RO1 from the National Eye Institute!

This award will provide more than 1.5 million over four years to support his research project "Uncertainty, inference, and introspection in the primate visual system".

Brief Summary:
Vision science seeks to understand how the visual system functions and aims to develop treatments for visual pathologies. The proposed studies to investigate the processing of visual uncertainty in cortex and its role in perception will provide rigorous steps towards those goals. The

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INS graduate student, Dylan Kirsch, receives predoctoral fellowship from NIAAA

September 2, 2022

Congratulations to Dylan Kirsch, INS graduate student in the Lippard Lab, on her predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism!

This award provides two years of support for her research "Ventral Prefrontal Network Connectivity and Alcohol Sensitivity in Bipolar Disorder and Typically Developing Young Adults".

Brief Summary:
Alcohol use disorders affect up to 60% of individuals with bipolar disorder and are associated with more severe illness outcomes, yet we lack sufficient understanding of the

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