The BrainStorm 2019 winner is revealed to the audience who voted for and chose the recipient of $30,000! Winner: Tin Nguyen (Vanderbilt University) – $30,000 Runners up: Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel, PhD (University of California Los Angeles), and Michael...
The winning team of researchers Tin Nguyen, Laurie Cutting, and Stephanie Del Tufo (Vanderbilt University) want to know what creates resiliency in children raised in poverty. Graduate student Tin Nguyen’s pitch sought to provide a deeper understanding of the...
THE PROJECT: Why exactly does “absence make the heart grow fonder?” Merridee Lefner and Matthew Wanat (The University of Texas at San Antonio) are analyzing the neurobiology of motivated behavior. How does dopamine work in influencing our responses to rewards and...
Why exactly does “absence make the heart grow fonder?” BrainStorm Neuroscience Pitch Competition™ 2020 winner Merridee Lefner, and Matthew Wanat (Wanat Lab, The University of Texas at San Antonio) are analyzing the neurobiology of motivated behavior. If we wait longer...
“Practice Makes Perfect: Does Social Experience in Early Life Guide Proper Brain Maturation?” Rein seeks to learn how early experiences shape the social development of our brains. Several parts of the brain are known to be involved in social function, but...
