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  • Events 2017-2018

    Neuroscience Special Seminars   |   Neuroscience Seminar Series   |   Neurotopics Neuroscience Special Seminars The Department of Neuroscience holds special seminars outside of the regular semi

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • News

    Toulmin Pilot Projects Selected, August 29, 2024 A GUMC panel chose faculty from several BGE programs to receive funding for their research in 2025 through the Toulmin Pilot Projects. A Brain F

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  • “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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  • Brain Responds to Tiniest Speech Details

    The sounds that make up speech, built from slight variations in vowels and consonants, trigger specific responses in the part of the brain responsible for speech processing, researchers report today in Science.

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    The Georgetown campus is easily accessible by public transportation from either of Washington’s two airports or by train.  The Department of Neuroscience is located in the New Research Building (

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  • People

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  • Events 2022-2023

    Neuroscience Special Seminars   |   Neuroscience Seminar Series   |   Neurotopics Neuroscience Special Seminars The Department of Neuroscience holds special seminars outside of the regular semi

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  • Jian-Young Wu, PhD

    ProfessorPh.D., 1986, Peking University, ChinaBasic Science Building, Room 207APhone: 202.687.1614Email: wuj@georgetown.edu GU360 Profile My laboratory studies population neuronal activity.

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