neurosciences

In the last several decades, work across cognitive neurosciences has drawn increasingly frequently on the metaphor of the “neural orchestra,” which maps the activities of localized cortical areas onto sections of a musical ensemble. Although the model was embraced as a novelty in the mid-1990s (a su...

The Case School of Engineering and Case Advancements Fellows Program will host Jasmine Kwasa, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, for a Case School of Engineering Seminar event. Kwasa will present “Addressing Racial and Phenotypic Bias in Emer...

Major: NeuroscienceYear: Third year When Emmanuel Rodriguez-Rivera studied abroad in Berlin, Germany, he conducted research as an intern in a hospital lab by day. By night and on the weekends, the third-year neuroscience student could be found exploring World War II historical sites, strolling th...

Masashi Tabuchi, assistant professor of neurosciences, was selected to participate in the 2022-23 Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition, sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The event’s goal is to identify bottlenecks, find avenues for breakthroughs and build new scientifi...

Ask people about Madeleine “Maddie” Eiss and one of the first words you’ll hear is “fierce.” It reflected her grit and competitive nature on the tennis court—and, even more, her commitment to those lucky enough to call her a friend. “When it came to a tennis match you could always count on her to ...

An article by Jon Niemi and other lab members from CWRU School of Medicine neurosciences department was published by peer-reviewed neuroscience journal eNeuro in February. Niemi and colleagues’ article, “The Conditioning Lesion Response in Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons Is Inhibited in Oncomodulin K...

The Department of Neurosciences invites community members to attend the next Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture Series with speaker Leslie B. Vosshall Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. ET via Zoom. Vosshall, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Robin Chemers Neustein Pr...

The speed at which Ashley Nemes-Baran has connected with her students is almost unheard of. Nemes-Baran, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosciences, started teaching at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine just last fall. Not only is Nemes-Baran new to Case Western Res...

The Case Western Reserve University community is invited to attend the next Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture Series event, hosted by the Department of Neurosciences, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 4 p.m. via Zoom. Catherine Dulac, the Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard ...

Case Western Reserve roboticist Roger Quinn, neuroscientist Hillel Chiel to lead $8 million, five-year National Science Foundation NeuroNex Network project seeking next level of control of neuromechanical systems A pair of longtime collaborators and biorobotic pioneers at Case Western Reserve Unive...