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Neuroscience News
Explore the latest news, events, and discoveries from the field of neuroscience.
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Tomás Ryan explores the commonality of memory and instinct to try to understand how the brain stores informational units
Oct 15, 2021
Neuroscience Research Highlights
Brain researchers benefit from the open sharing of new tools and technologies
Oct 07, 2021
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Marina Picciotto investigates how acetylcholine works as a neuromodulator within the brain
Sep 27, 2021
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Fruit flies can help us understand the impact of social isolation, and other highlights from the Kavli Institutes in Neuroscience
Sep 16, 2021
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Graeme Davis wants to maximize the self-corrective powers within everyone’s brain to resist neurodegenerative diseases
Sep 09, 2021
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Research at Kavli Neuroscience Institutes spans athletic performance to decoding speech
Aug 02, 2021
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Timothy Gentner decodes birds’ neural activity into song
Jul 23, 2021
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New insights into the complexity of olfaction, and more highlights from Kavli Institutes in Neuroscience
Jul 09, 2021
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Theoretical neuroscience explores the functions and mechanisms of neural circuits across species
Jun 28, 2021
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How Daphna Shohamy studies the brain mechanisms that drive information-seeking behavior
Jun 17, 2021
Initiatives
To advance research in neuroscience, a field that converges with many scientific disciplines, we catalyze and enable initiatives to address the opportunities and challenges of this dynamic field.
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Partnerships
We support initiatives and pursue partnerships that advance science and help science and society move forward together.
- Society for Neuroscience
- Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
- FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence
- International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
- International Brain Research Organization
- Global Neuroethics Summit
- Association for Psychological Science
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- Society for Neuroeconomics
- International Neuroethics Society
The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in advancing our knowledge and understanding of the brain and nervous system, including molecular neuroscience, cellular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, neurogenetics, developmental neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and related facets of the brain and nervous system.
Kavli Prize LaureatesNeuroscience is the science of the brain. The brain itself is the most complex and the most advanced product of nature and basic to the very existence of the human being.
- Fred Kavli