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Ping Li

Psychologist to speak on how the brain learns languages

1/18/18

Ping Li, Penn State professor of psychology, linguistics, and information sciences and technology, will speak on “Understanding the Language-Learning Brain through Cyber-Enabled and Computational Methods.” The event will be held in 233A HUB-Robeson Center from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. on Feb. 7.

Srinivas Tadigadapa and Steve Schiff

A neurosurgeon and an engineer walk into a lab ...

9/18/17

Penn State scientists are combining neuroscience, engineering, miniaturization, and magnetic fields to create a tiny device that could lead to better, safer treatments for epilepsy and other brain disorders by sensing and "talking to" brain cells without physically invading the brain.

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Men and women show equal ability at recognizing faces

5/9/17

Conventional wisdom suggests that women are better than men at facial recognition and categorizing facial expressions. Penn State psychologists found no evidence for that, despite using both behavioral and neuroimaging tests.

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Brain's power to adapt offers short-term gains, long-term strains

4/24/17

Brains that suffer injuries can adjust in remarkable ways and create connections between injured areas that are better and stronger. However, those new connections may be less efficient and, in the end, more costly to maintain. These "hyperconnections" could increase the likelihood of problems, such as Alzheimer's Disease, developing later in life. Studying hyperconnections underscores the importance of brain protection and could one day lead to treatments for brain impairments.

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Put your brain to work on April 5 at Penn State York

3/30/17

Educational and fun activities related to neuroscience, mental health, psychology and learning are set for April 5, when Penn State York celebrates Brain Awareness Day. The event, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Conference Center of the Main Classroom Building, is free and open to the public.

Diana Fishbein

Fishbein to present at translational research conference

9/30/16

Diana Fishbein, director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and C. Eugene Bennett Chair in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, will be one of the primary speakers at the second annual symposium for the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health. The conference, “Moving Toward Precision Healthcare in Children’s Mental Health: New Perspectives, Methodologies and Technologies in Therapeutics and Prevention,” will take place Oct. 5-7.

Thomas Gould

Thomas Gould named head of Department of Biobehavioral Health

7/15/16

Thomas J. Gould has been named head of the Department of Biobehavioral Health in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State. In this role, he will hold the Jean Phillips Shibley Professorship of Biobehavioral Health. Gould joins Penn State, effective July 1, after serving as professor of psychology and director of the program in neuroscience at Temple University.

New early career professorship to honor pioneering Penn Stater

6/13/16

Mary Graham, of Wilmington, Delaware, has created a new professorship to honor her late mother, who began her pioneering career in the sciences as a Penn State undergraduate. The Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professorship will support promising junior faculty in the Penn State Social Science Research Institute who are pursuing related career paths.

Bruce McEwen

World renowned neuroscientist to give keynote address at Founder’s Research Day

4/15/16

Bruce McEwen, professor of neuroscience at Rockefeller University, will present the keynote lecture, “Experience Shapes the Brain Across the Lifecourse: Towards a Scientific Basis of Policy and Practice,” as part of the first Founder’s Endowment for Excellence and Innovation Research Day at 3:30 p.m. April 25 in the Biobehavioral Health Building on the University Park campus.

Dr. Stephen Porges

ADRI Events to Focus on Nervous System’s Role in Performance and Human Behavior

1/27/16

The Arts and Design Research Incubator (ADRI) will explore the nervous system’s role in performance and human behavior in a series of events throughout the spring 2016 semester, starting with a conversation with leading stress researcher Dr. Stephen Porges at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in ADRI, 16 Borland Building. Dr. Porges, a neurophysiologist and author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation, will discuss the neurophysiology of how our perceptions and actions shift in stressful situations. The conversation will be facilitated by Andrew Belser, ADRI director and professor of theatre. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Biobehavioral Health Colloquium Series.

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