Upcoming Events
Due to the COVID-19 situation, all events at Duke are either canceled or moving to a virtual platform. This notice supersedes any announcements below.
The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences is hosting three events focused on perinatal mental health and maternal wellness. Assistant Professor Marla Wald, MD, has convened the series with support from the Duke University School of Medicine's interdisciplinary colloquium funding... read more about Perinatal Mental Health & Maternal Wellness Panel: Challenges & Opportunities in the Context of COVID-19 & Mental Health Disparities »
Our Grand Rounds are now being held virtually via Zoom. View them at: https://duke.zoom.us/j/9406012755 Check out our schedule for speakers and links at our intranet site. https://wiki.duke.edu/display/DON/Neurology+Department+Clinical+Grand+Ro... read more about Neurology Grand Rounds - (No lecture; Thanksgiving holiday) »
Duke Neurobiology welcomes neuroscientist Gina Turrigiano, Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. Contact d.shipman@duke.edu for connection details. Partial abstract: Neocortical networks must generate and maintain stable activity patterns despite perturbations induced by learning and... read more about Self-tuning neurons and firing rate homeostasis »
Our Grand Rounds are now being held virtually via Zoom. View them at: https://duke.zoom.us/j/9406012755 This week Duke Neurobiology's Kafui Dziarasa, MD, PhD will speak. read more about Neurology Grand Rounds - Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD (Neurobiology) »
Join us for our next Duke Center for Autism Speaker Series talk. Our speaker will be Fred Shic, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington. Dr. Shic's research interests include applications of eye-tracking and functional near infrared spectroscopy to the study of the... read more about Visual Attention in ASD: Explorations Across Development »
Sponsored by TK Li Lecture Fund. Dr. Volkow is Director National Institute on Drug Abuse at NIH. She pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the effects of drugs in the human brain and has demonstrated that drug addiction is a brain disease. She has published more than 790 scientific... read more about Collision of the Opioid Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Update and Challenges »
"Neuromodulation and Data Science: Opportunities and Hurdles at the Intersection of Time-Locked and Objective Measures of Therapeutic Response" Erika Ross Abbott Neuromodulation Thursday, December 3 12:00 - 1:00 on ZOOM read more about Neural Engineering Seminar: Neuromodulation and Data Science: Opportunities and Hurdles at the Intersection of Time-Locked and Objective Measures of Therapeutic Response »
The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Fall Colloquium Series read more about CCN Colloquium - Student Presentations »
Gastronauts is a focused group of researchers passionate about gut-brain matters. From food to mood, we are always thinking about how to tap into the gut to improve human health and the world we live in. Join us every First Tuesday of the month! read more about Gastronauts: Bite-Sized Summit »
Duke Neurobiology welcomes neuroscientist Liqun Luo, PhD, Ann and Bill Swindells Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Contact d.shipman@duke.edu for connection details. Abstract: The human brain contains ~1011 neurons, making >1014 synaptic connections that enable us to... read more about Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Circuit Assembly »