Job Description The Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience invites applications for a full-time Instructor to teach undergraduate neuroscience students. The primary responsibility of this position is ...

Job Description Virginia Tech (VT) invites applications for multiple tenure track faculty positions in the School of Neuroscience at the Assistant Professor level. We are seeking a candidate that wi...

Viviana Hernández-Castañón, a postdoctoral associate at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will use a fellowship from the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation to investigate brain activi...

Many neural circuits undergo competitive input selection, a process in which supernumerary connections compete for innervation territory on target cells. This process can create atypical circuits when...

New research helps explain why men generally recover faster from pain.

Gabriel Isaac was awarded a fellowship to support his doctoral research toward putting low-intensity focused ultrasound into clinical practice.

The research suggests that men’s immune systems have a better mechanism for shutting off pain, which could explain why women have more chronic symptoms.

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Through intensive research, close faculty mentorship, and everyday moments of cultural immersion, a three-week neuroscience study abroad program in Switzerland helps students gain confidence, clarify ...

Researchers discovered an indication hidden in the brain that may help doctors identify children with a rare genetic disease earlier.

In a new study published in PAIN, researchers in the School of Neuroscience erased well-established pain behaviors by shutting down an enzyme system that produces molecules known to amplify pain signa...

YouTube video by BRAIN PONDERINGS podcast with Dr. Mark Mattson

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For the first time, scientists measured dopamine and serotonin in real time in people with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. The signals showed a fundamental difference — a key step forward f...

Neuroscientist Meike van der Heijden of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC explains how understanding childhood brain development could guide treatments for movement disorders.

Harrigan came to Virginia Tech inspired to pursue a career that would help people struggling with medical issues, such as his grandfather's battle with dementia. Combining neuroscience with computer s...

The collaboration between neuroscience students and the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets addresses impacts of military stressors on cognitive function and training.

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Mounting evidence illustrates how peripheral molecules can influence brain function, offering new therapeutic targets.