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The PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston is an intensive, developmentally-focused, research-based program. Lab work ranges from cognitive development and psychophysics to neuroendocrinology and behavioral genetics. Students may follow a Cognitive specialization investigating functional changes in perceptual and cognitive abilities or a Behavioral specialization investiga
10/16/2023
We are now accepting applications for Fall 2024!
Developmental Brain Sciences PhD - UMass Boston The PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences (DBS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston is a research-intensive program focused on understanding cognition, perception, and behavior when underlying neural and hormonal mechanisms are developing. Core faculty engage in lab work ranging from...
08/10/2022
A couple of new papers from the Hunter and Park labs:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.813510/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.923732/full
Bridging the Gap Between Environmental Adversity and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: The Role of Transposable Elements Long regarded as “junk DNA,” transposable elements (TEs) have recently garnered much attention for their role in promoting genetic diversity and plasticity. While many processes involved in mammalian development require TE activity, deleterious TE insertions are a hallmark of several psychiatric...
09/17/2021
New Microscopy Technique Reveals Activity of One Million Neurons Across the Mouse Brain - Neuroscience News A new technique dubbed light beads microscopy allowed researchers to generate a vivid functional movie of the near-simultaneous activity of almost a million neurons in the mouse brain.
05/19/2021
I'm still staring at it...
Tim Kietzmann on Twitter “No photoshop involved. ”
05/19/2021
Neurons may be smarter than we thought...
Neurons Act Not As Complex, Multi-Unit Processing Systems A study published in the journal Science has upended 80 years of conventional wisdom in computational neuroscience that has modeled the neuron as a simple point-like node in a system, integrating signals and passing them along.
05/14/2021
Congrats to Mollie Hamilton and Jamie Beshore (graduate students in the UMB Baby Lab) for being admitted to CEU's online summer school on developing object representations!
04/01/2021
Huge congratulations to Dr. Julie Freschl, who successfully defended her dissertation on 3/26! We will miss her as she is soon moving to the Bay Area to start her postdoc at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco :)
03/22/2021
My short book review on a really interesting popular science book on executive functions (David Badre: On Task) is now out in Current Biology:
Coffee with the executive | On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done David Badre (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2020) ISBN: 978-0-691-17555-3 Current BiologyVolume 31, Issue 6, 22 March 2021, Pages R270-R271Book reviewCoffee with the executiveOn Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done David Badre (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; 2020) ISBN: 978-0-691-17555-3Author links open overlay panelZsuzsaKaldyShow moreShareCitehttps://doi.or...
A good short summary article with lots of references about the effects of structural racism on health in THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE.
12/16/2020
Join us for an info session! Http://umassboston.zoom.us/j/99543772358
12/14/2020
For more information on applying to DBS, please visit https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/psychology/grad/dbs/for_prospective_students.
Reminder: the deadline for applications to our program is coming up on December 15!