The Neuroscience Ph.D. program gives you the opportunity to directly participate in the research approaches at the core of our discipline.
From the cellular and molecular bases of nervous system functioning to a systems-level approach to the study of relationships between brain and behavior, the program provides a deep understanding of the field and its sub-disciplines.
Please consider making a tax-exempt contribution to the Program in Neuroscience. Your support will help us continue in our efforts to support graduate students enrolled in our academic programs.
Give NowThe faculty in neuroscience includes 80+ basic and applied scientists drawn from participating departments, including Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Kinesiology, Mathematics, Medical Sciences, Optometry, Physics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Speech and Hearing.
They belong to one or more of four core research areas, the four front doors to the study of neuroscience at IUB.
Learn about our core research areasFunding for Neuroscience research comes from a variety of sources. The National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation are two major providers of funding.
Dr. Franco Pestilli wins Janet Taylor Spence Award Neuroscientist Dr. Franco Pestilli, assistant professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences, has been awarded the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions.
This award celebrates the forward-thinking ideas of the most creative and promising researchers, recognizing those who cross traditional sub-disciplinary lines in the multiple fields of psychological science. It honors the contributions of investigators who embody the future of the field, revealing the organization that underlies complex behavior.
Pestilli explores ways of taking human individuality into account when measuring the brain. This approach—broadly known as precision medicine—can enable us to improve the way we predict, prevent, or treat a variety of mental illnesses and conditions, ranging from Alzheimer’s disease and PTSD to schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, and ADHD.
Pistelli’s larger goal goes beyond individual anatomy. He imagines that it will one day be possible “to organize individual cases into a landscape of brain profiles that can represent a landscape of health and disease, a vast geographic map that would show how individual brains compare to one another and that would ultimately provide predictive models for new cases.”
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