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2013 HHMI Investigators Include Three CBS Faculty Members

Adam Cohen, Hopi Hoekstra, and Rachel Wilson are the new HHMI Investigators from CBS.

BRAIN Initiative

President Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative with $100 million in the President’s 2014 Budget. Aravi Samuel co-chaired a meeting sponsored by NSF to plan their role in the BRAIN initiative.  Joshua Sanes attended President Obama's announcement of the initiative at the White House, and has been named to the NIH committee --called "the Dream Team" by NIH Director Francis Collins--charged with articulating the specific goals of the initiative and developing a plan to achieve them.

Corticocortical feedback contributes to surround suppression in v1 of the alert primate.

Nassi JJ, Lomber SG, Born RT.

New Members of the National Academy of Sciences

CBS member Dan Schacter was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, in a strong year for neuroscientists.

First Class of Horizon Scholars Includes Fenna Krienen

The Harvard Horizons Symposium: Featuring short talks by the inaugural Horizon Scholars, eight PhD students whose ideas represent the best new thinking in their disciplines.

Optical magnetic imaging of living cells

Sage DL, Arai K, Glenn DR, DeVience SJ, Pham LM, Rahn-Lee L, Lukin MD, Yacoby A, Komeili A, Walsworth RL.

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Researchers in the Center for Brain Science (CBS) are discovering the structure and function of neural circuits. We are investigating how these circuits govern behavior and vary between individuals; learning how they change during development and aging; and deepening our understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and their therapies. To accomplish this mission, CBS brings neuroscientists together with physical scientists and engineers to develop and deploy new tools for neuroscience. Headquartered in the new Northwest Building on Oxford Street in Cambridge, CBS has strong links throughout the neuroscience community at Harvard University. Members are drawn from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Medical School, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Harvard-affiliated hospitals.

Neuroengineering: what tools we need

Neuroimaging: what underlies our thoughts

Light Microscopy: what the brain looks like 

Electron Microscopy: what is the brain's nanostructure

Connectome Project: how the brain is wired

Swartz Program: how do we understand brain function

Education: what training we need