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Researchers Identify Protein Necessary for Behavioral Flexibility

May 24, 2012
Researchers have identified a protein necessary to maintain behavioral flexibility, which allows us to modify our behaviors to adjust to circumstances that are similar, but not identical, to previous experiences. Their findings may offer new insights into addressing autism and schizophrenia—afflictions marked by impaired behavioral flexibility.
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Researchers Uncover New Ways Sleep-Wake Patterns are Like Clockwork

May 23, 2012
Researchers at NYU and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered new ways neurons work together to ease the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Their findings provide additional insights into sleep-wake patterns and offer methods to explore what may disrupt them.
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NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge Re-Launches Journal “Public Culture”

May 17, 2012
Public Culture, founded in the 1980s as an interdisciplinary social sciences journal, has been re-launched by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK).
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Sociologist Calhoun Elected to American Philosophical Society

May 16, 2012
Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. Others elected this year include: Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times; novelist Cormac McCarthy; and artist William Kentridge.
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Anthropologists Discover Earliest Form of Wall Art

May 14, 2012
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art. Their research shows the piece to be approximately 37,000 years old and offers rich evidence of the role art played in the daily lives of Early Aurignacian humans.
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A New Look Back at the Nation's First War: NYU Historian Explores Origins of American Patriotism in 1812

May 9, 2012
The War of 1812, the first constitutionally declared war in the history of the United States and the first war to be fought in a modern democracy, was also a conflict fueled by family-oriented appeals, NYU historian Nicole Eustace writes in her new book, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism, which examines the role of emotion in the making of war.
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Anthropologist Jolly Wins Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award

May 3, 2012
Clifford Jolly, an emeritus professor of anthropology at NYU, has received the 2012 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Long-Held Genetic Theory Doesn’t Quite Make the Grade, Biologists Find

Apr 26, 2012
NYU biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos, while also shedding additional insight into how physical traits are arranged in body plans. Their findings call for reconsideration of a decades-old biological theory, which has been used to explain why a tiger has stripes, among other phenomena.
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NYUCN's Dr. Laura Wagner: Study Finds Accreditation Improves Safety Culture at Nursing Homes

Apr 25, 2012
Accredited nursing homes report a stronger resident safety culture than nonaccredited facilities, according to a new study published in the May 2012 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
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NIH Grant Using Genomics to Tailor Oral Cancer Treatment Awarded to Dr. Brian L. Schmidt, NYU College of Dentistry, and Dr. Donna G. Albertson, University of California, San Francisco

Apr 25, 2012
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a two-year grant to Dr. Brian L. Schmidt, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the NYU College of Dentistry, and Dr. Donna G. Albertson, professor at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. The grant will fund groundbreaking research to customize treatment for oral cancer patients. Drs. Schmidt and Albertson have identified candidate genomic markers in tumors that predict if an oral cancer is likely to spread (metastasize) to the neck
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Chemists Explain the Molecular Workings of Promising Fuel Cell Electrolyte

Apr 22, 2012
Researchers from NYU and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric acid in a Nature Chemistry study that sheds new light on the workings of a promising fuel cell electrolyte.
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Neuroscience is Art in New Lab—NYU Opens Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory

Apr 20, 2012
How can art serve science? NYU answers this question with the opening of the Neurobiology of Cognition Laboratory, a new Center for Neural Science laboratory featuring an art piece that doubles as the facility’s conference table. The work, “Reconfiguring Memory,” by internationally recognized artist Shuli Sadé, will be the centerpiece of Professor André Fenton’s laboratory, which will be dedicated to research on memory.
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Aesthetic Appeal May Have Neurological Link to Contemplation and Self-Assessment, NYU Researchers Find

Apr 16, 2012
A network of brain regions which is activated during intense aesthetic experience overlaps with the brain network associated with inward contemplation and self-assessment, New York University researchers have found. Their study sheds new light on the nature of the aesthetic experience, which appears to integrate sensory and emotional reactions in a manner linked with their personal relevance.
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New Finding Offers Neurological Support for Adam Smith’s “Theories of Morality”

Apr 9, 2012
The part of the brain we use when engaging in egalitarian behavior may also be linked to a larger sense of morality, researchers have found. Their conclusions, which offer scientific support for Adam Smith’s theories of morality, are based on experimental research published in the latest issue of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences".
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NYU’s Movement Lab Captures Motions of New York Philharmonic’s Alan Gilbert for Animated 3D Look at Renowned Conductor

Apr 6, 2012
NYU’s Movement Laboratory has reconstructed the motions of Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, to offer an animated, three-dimensional look at the actions of a conductor.
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