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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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Meet the Girl with the NUP214-ABL1 Gene
Myrrah Shapoo
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Meet the Girl with the NUP214-ABL1 Gene

A team of physicians and scientists working on a new precision-medicine initiative face their ultimate test

The Ultimate Venom Database
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The Ultimate Venom Database

Columbia researchers created a database of the effects of different venoms on the human body

Take Out the Trash: A Strategy to Subdue Alzheimer's
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Take Out the Trash: A Strategy to Subdue Alzheimer's

Researchers found that boosting the productivity of the brain's "garbage-disposal system" may treat diseases

With New Diagnostic Test, Viruses Have Nowhere to Hide
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With New Diagnostic Test, Viruses Have Nowhere to Hide

Scientists have developed a diagnostic tool could speed up the detection and treatment of infectious diseases from common influenza to Dengue fever

Can Computers Predict who Develops Mental Illness?
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Can Computers Predict who Develops Mental Illness?

An automated speech-analysis program predicted with 100 percent accuracy which of thirty-four teens and young adults would develop schizophrenia 

Picturing Alzheimer's
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Picturing Alzheimer's

Inside Arts & Minds, a nonprofit that provides art classes for dementia patients

How Your Birth Month Influences Your Health
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How Your Birth Month Influences Your Health

The month you were born helps determine your risk for asthma, ADHD, heart disease, and many other common medical problems

Biking and Breathing
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Biking and Breathing

Is cycling in the city as healthy as people think?

Cancer Can be Catching
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Cancer Can be Catching

Leukemia is spreading among soft-shell clams through seawater, marking only the third instance that scientists have ever found of cancer cells migrating between organisms

Joint Venture
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Joint Venture

Tissue engineers at CUMC are bending the idea of what's possible — by growing new cartilage and bone inside the body

New Hope for Those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Mady Hornig
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New Hope for Those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The illness, once dismissed as the “yuppie flu,” has long frustrated scientists seeking to explain its etiology

The Smile Sessions
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The Smile Sessions

Andrea Smith '05DM is the clinical director of the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic

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