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20 Years of Modeling the Brain
Larry Abbott, Ken Miller, and Daphna Shohamy at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
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20 Years of Modeling the Brain

At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

Clearing the Path to Parenthood
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Clearing the Path to Parenthood

Physicians are racing to find new treatments for infertility and recurrent miscarriages. But how far can they push the biology of reproduction?

How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
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How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.

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Why Are So Many Younger Adults Getting Cancer?
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Why Are So Many Younger Adults Getting Cancer?

Columbia researchers are investigating ultra-processed foods, sedentary lifestyles, and other possible explanations

Progress Toward an HIV Vaccine, and Other Science News
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Progress Toward an HIV Vaccine, and Other Science News

Research briefs from Columbia

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Biomedical Research
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Biomedical Research

Columbia researchers are using AI to unravel genetic mysteries behind cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more

How the Science of ‘Exposomics’ Could Improve Drug Safety
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How the Science of ‘Exposomics’ Could Improve Drug Safety

Pioneering research seeks to reduce the frequency of adverse drug reactions

The Mobile Clinic Fighting Breast Cancer in Georgia
Breast cancer surgeon Rogsbert Phillips-Reed with a patient
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The Mobile Clinic Fighting Breast Cancer in Georgia

Surgeon Rogsbert Phillips-Reed ’77VPS takes her advocacy for women’s health on the road

Can We Solve the Parkinson’s Puzzle?
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Can We Solve the Parkinson’s Puzzle?

How Columbia researchers are working to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure the world’s fastest-growing neurological disorder

The World’s Most Contagious Disease Makes a Comeback
Measles morbilli virus
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The World’s Most Contagious Disease Makes a Comeback

In Booster Shots, pediatrician Adam Ratner ’97PH, ’97VPS grapples with the repercussions of the anti-vax movement

The Myth of Moderate Drinking and the New Rules on Booze
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The Myth of Moderate Drinking and the New Rules on Booze

Columbia epidemiologist Katherine Keyes ’10PH explains the slippery science behind alcohol’s health effects

How Social Media Affects the Teenage Brain
Illustration by Kyle Ellingson of a teenage brain while using social media
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How Social Media Affects the Teenage Brain

Scholars at Columbia peer into the plugged-in adolescent mind and assess the impacts of a digital upbringing

Gene May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Science News
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Gene May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Science News

Research briefs from Columbia

In Search of the ‘Good Dad’ Hormone
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In Search of the ‘Good Dad’ Hormone

Neurobiologists pinpoint the source of paternal instinct in the oldfield mouse, a rodent known for its unique fatherly behavior

Are You at Risk for Long Covid?
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Are You at Risk for Long Covid?

Columbia researchers identify the people most likely to suffer

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