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  • Students in Lab
    MS in Integrative Neuroscience
    The Department of Neuroscience offers a rigorous program leading to the MS degree in Integrative Neuroscience. The MS program is designed for completion in two full-time consecutive semesters. The curriculum includes an extensive integrated overview of neuroscience, statistics, experimental design, and technical approaches.
  • Alzheimer's Risk Genes Linked to Changes in Young, Healthy Brains
    Alzheimer's Risk Genes Linked to Changes in Young, Healthy Brains
    Conventional wisdom might indicate that bigger brains and enhanced memory performance in youth should help protect against the cognitive declines seen decades later in Alzheimer’s disease. Yet for two Georgetown University scientists, recent research appears to suggest the opposite.
  • Ullman Lab
    Boys with High-Functioning Autism Show Surprising Strength at Language
    “We had not expected this interesting finding,” says Michael Ullman, director of the Brain and Language Laboratory at Georgetown University Medical Center and senior author of the study that found boys with high-functioning autism could process a key grammar task faster than boys without autism.
  • Kathy Conant, MD
    Endowment Provides Vital Research Lifeline for Neuroscience Investigator
    In the research world, there is a familiar Catch-22. Bright ideas require research funding to generate preliminary data, but it is notoriously difficult for a researcher to secure funding without having that preliminary data.
  • Mocchetti Lab
    'Cold Turkey' Withdrawal Triggers Mental Decline in Animals
    Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have found that stopping morphine “cold turkey” in addicted animal models causes a serious decline in mental health, a finding that could lead to better ways of helping people quit harmful drugs.

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