For the second year, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) awarded a record number of Trainee Professional Development Awards.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of women in neuroscience during Neuroscience 2018, SfN’s annual meeting and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

SfN will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to William Muñoz, PhD, a student in the MD-PhD program at the New York University School of Medicine, for his development and application of a method to record from interneurons deep in the cerebral cortex and identify both their morphology and their function. 

The Society of Neuroscience has been awarded a 2018 American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Power of A Gold Award for BrainFacts.org, SfN’s public education website.

A neuroimaging study of human participants watching the 1994 film Forrest Gump and Alfred Hitchcock's 1961 television drama Bang! You're Dead suggests an important role for the hippocampus in segmenting our continuous everyday experience into discrete events for storage in long-term memory.

Individual arm movements are represented by neural activity in both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, according to a study of epilepsy patients.

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Study demonstrates how the brain learns to recognize an individual face regardless of where it appears in space.

A study of teenage twins teases apart the influence of genetic and environmental factors on brain activity during sleep.