Center for Neural Science

Renowned Researcher, Founder of Neuroeconomics Named Director of NYU Langone Health's Neuroscience Institute

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Friday, June 30, 2023

NEW YORK, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul W. Glimcher, PhD , has been named as the director of NYU Langone Health's Neuroscience Institute and chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, effective July 1.

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  • NEW YORK, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Paul W. Glimcher, PhD , has been named as the director of NYU Langone Health's Neuroscience Institute and chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, effective July 1.
  • Dr. Glimcher is credited as the founder of the field of neuroeconomics, which bridges neuroscience, psychology, and economics to understand human decision-making.
  • Dr. Glimcher will be succeeding Richard Tsien, DPhil , who joined NYU Langone in 2011 as the inaugural director of the Neuroscience Institute and served as chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology since 2012.
  • Under Dr. Tsien's leadership, the neuroscience community at NYU Grossman School of Medicine expanded to 25 labs supported by Neuroscience Institute administration and grew to have the fourth largest grant portfolio at NYU Langone.

Brains Cells Born Together Wire and Fire Together for Life

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Monday, August 22, 2022

These rules of circuit assembly would suggest that cells born together are more likely to encode memories together, and to fail together, potentially implicating neuronal birthdate in diseases like autism and Alzheimer's, say the authors.

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  • These rules of circuit assembly would suggest that cells born together are more likely to encode memories together, and to fail together, potentially implicating neuronal birthdate in diseases like autism and Alzheimer's, say the authors.
  • With different numbers of cells born on different days, the developing brain may be more vulnerable on some gestational days to viral infections, toxins, or alcohol.
  • The DNA expressed markers that tagged brain cells that were born on same day, akin to a barcode.
  • Funding for the study was provide by National Institutes of Health grants RO1 MH122391 and U19 NS107616.

NYU Langone Receives $8M NIH Grant to Develop State-of-Art Brain Implant to Study Epilepsy

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

There is so much more we will be able to learn about electrical activity in the brain."

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  • There is so much more we will be able to learn about electrical activity in the brain."
  • Prototypes were tested intraoperatively for a period of up to 30 minutes in dozens of patients at both Duke and NYU Langone.
  • Clinical trials using an FDA-approved monitoring implant are expected to begin at NYU Langone Health in 2023.
  • The funding award is from NIH's Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which is aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain.