Rodolfo Llinás, MD, PhD, Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and chairman emeritus of physiology and neuroscience at the New York University School of Medicine, will receive this year’s Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience.

Kenneth Miller, PhD, will receive the 2018 Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience for his cumulative contributions to theoretical models or computational methods in neuroscience.

SfN has announced that Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD; Teodora Stoica; and Elena Blanco-Suárez, PhD, will receive this year’s Science Education and Outreach Awards, which include the Science Educator Award and the Next Generation Award.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Jacob P. Waletzky Award to Michael Bruchas, PhD, of the Washington University School of Medicine, at Neuroscience 2018, SfN’s annual meeting and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

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 intense audiovisual feedback from slot machines can directly influence a player's decisions, suggests a laboratory study of more than 100 healthy adults.

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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.