facilitating cross-disciplinary, collaborative research to advance our understanding of mind, brain, and behavior
Events
Tom Maniatis - Finding the Bar Codes in our Brains: Using Genetics to Identify the Brain’s 100 Billion Neurons
Presidential Scholars Research Symposium
Edgar Landgraf - Comparing Domains of Improvisation
Recent News
Lan Li - Imagining the Brain: Episodes in the History of Brain Research
Lan Li's chapter entitled "Pinpricks: Needling, Numbness, and Temporalities of Pain" has been published in Imagining the Brain: Episodes in the History of Brain Research, the latest book in the Progress in Brain Research series focusing on neuroscience.
Federica Coppola - Neuroethics
Federica Coppola's new article, "Valuing Emotions in Punishment: an Argument for Social Rehabilitation with the Aid of Social and Affective Neuroscience," has been published in Neuroethics, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on interdisciplinary studies in neuroethics and related issues in the sciences of the mind.
Federica Coppola - 2018 Postdoctoral Research Symposium
Federica Coppola will present her abstract, "Valuing Emotions in Punishment: A Neuroscience-based Argument for Incorporating Restorative Justice within Conventional Punitive Models," at the upcoming 2018 Columbia University Postdoctoral Research Symposium on December 4. Federica will present in Session 2 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Mission
The Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience (PSSN) program aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary, collaborative research to advance our understanding of mind, brain, and behavior. The program fosters, and independently funds, direct communication and knowledge sharing between experts in the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences; thus creating a new paradigm for interdisciplinary university-sponsored research.
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