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Professor Timothy Otto discusses President Obama's plan to Map the Human Brain with Rutgers Today. |
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Miriam Nokia and Megan Anderson, post doc and graduate student respectively, working with Professor Tracey Shors, published "Chemotherapy disrupts learning, neurogenesis and theta activity in the adult brain," on the commonly called Chemo Brain effect of chemotherapy.Featured article of EJN issue 36-11: video and links Full text of article Central NJ.com article Fierce Biotech article Rutgers Today article |
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Professor Lee Jussim's book, Social Perception and Social Reality, has won the 2012 PROSE Award in Psychology - an American Publishers Award for professional and scholarly excellence.Pigee article- Effect sizes Dr. Jussim's blog |
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Professor Daniel Ogilvie has been selected for the TED2013 talks.From Ted2013: "Pulling from psychology, evolutionary theory, history and more, Daniel Ogilvie is trying to understand humankind’s deep-seated belief in the soul."
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Professor Tracey Shors and graduate student Megan Anderson,report in a study to be published on Nov. 8 in the journal Neuroscience, that moderate to binge drinking significantly alters the production of new neurons in the adult hippocampus. Links to articles and the study:Original Study online Futurity Women'sHealth Global Montreal Rutgers Media Relations article by Robin Lally The Atlantic
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New Link to NJ.com on this subject.Assistant Professor Elizabeth Torres and the Sensory Motor Integration Lab are working to change how Autism is diagnosed and treated.Autism is typically diagnosed through a subjective set of questions answered by individuals, parents and clinicians. Dr. Torres has developed an objective, scientific way to diagnose the condition by capturing movement data with electromagnetic sensors and analyzing it. See the Rutgers Today article and video. The work of Dr. Torres lab was presented at the Society for Neuroscience, October 2012 conference. See the SFARI (Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) video and article by Sarah DeWeerdt: Movement patterns may distinguish autism subgroups |
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Professor Leonard Hamilton wins Presidential Public Service AwardThe Rutgers College Class of 1962 Presidential Public Service Award honors members of the faculty, student body, or staff for volunteer service to government, professional and scholarly organizations, or the public.May 2012: Leonard W. Hamilton, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, was honored for his more than 20 years of dedicated leadership and staunch advocacy of environmental planning and the preservation of ecological resources. He was also recognized for enhancing the quality of life in our communities and bringing the issue of environmental protection, particularly that of managing our watersheds, to the attention of the citizens of New Jersey, regional planning groups, and numerous municipal governments. |
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Professor Tracey Shors talks about neurogenesis, dementia and the rescue of new neurons in the Rutgers Magazine article, The Brain Trust. |
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Professor Carolyn Rovee-Collier has been chosen as an honoree of the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences.She joins a distinguished group of honorees in the FABBS Gallery of Scientists who have made important and lasting contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior. |
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Associate Professor Danielle McCarthy has won the NJ Psychological Association Emerging Researcher Award. |
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A student organization is spawned with the research of Associate Professor Diana Sanchez.See the Rutgers Focus article, "Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial" |
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Professor Gretchen Chapman asks Who will get the Flu vaccine and Why?See the Rutgers Today article: Gaming the Flu: How We Decide to Get Vaccinated, or Not and Wray Herbert's blog for APS: Flu Psychology: Who risks what for whom? |
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Professor G. Terence Wilson, has won the 2012 Aaron T. Beck Award,presented by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy each year to an individual who has made significant and enduring contributions to the field of cognitive therapy. |
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NSF IGERT Video and Poster Competition - Rutgers WinnersRutgers Graduate Students in Cognitive Psychology and Computer Science won an award in the NSF IGERT Video and Poster Competition.
Gwendolyn Johnson, Nick Ross, Elio Santos, and Polina Yanovich created "What do we see in each other?: How the perception of movement drives social interaction."
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"Teaching the Art of Mediation"Professor Robert Karlin discusses the progression and teaching of mediation in this Rutgers Today article.
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Kelly Brownell is the 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Award for the Application of Psychology from the American Psychological Association.This award honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical advances in psychology leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems.
Kelly received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Rutgers University in 1977 (a student of Terry Wilson’s). He is currently Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology, and Public Health at Yale University, where he also is founding Director of the Rudd Institute for Food Policy and Obesity. The numerous honors he has received include the Graduate School Award for a lifetime of Distinguished Accomplishments and Service from Rutgers University (2008), and election to membership in the Institute of Medicine in 2005. The most public recognition of his eminence has been his selection in 2006 by Time Magazine as one of the “world’s 100 most influential people.
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Professor Charles R. Gallistel received the D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contributions Awardfrom the American Psychological Association.
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"Rutgers Psychologys Aims to Curb Self Destructive Behavior with Computer-Aided Therapy"See the Rutgers Today, Research article on Professor Edward Selby's research. |
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SFN "Nature and Nurture work together to Shape the Brain"See the Society for Neuroscience Press Release - Neuroscience 2011 Conference -with Professor Tracey Shors.
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"Blanks for the Memories"See The Wall Street Journal article with Professor Judith Hudson.
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"Babies as young as six months remember more than we thought"See the Star Ledger article on Professor Alan Leslie's lab.
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