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Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online
Rendering of a brain with signals insinuating AI and data.

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Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online

A new study from the Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that, even across cultures, neural models can reliably predict whether an article is popular on Facebook.

From Annenberg School for Communication

How humans use their sense of smell to find their way
Clara Raithel looks at brain scans on a computer in a lab.

Sixth-year Ph.D. student Clara Raithel looks at an anatomical brain scan taken from a previous study participant.

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How humans use their sense of smell to find their way

In the lab of neuroscientist Jay Gottfried, sixth-year psychology Ph.D. student Clara Raithel tries to understand how people’s brains respond to odors.

Michele W. Berger

Understanding the brain via a molecular map
Abstract polygonal brain with connected dots and lines. Artificial intelligence 3d illustration.

PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators have generated the first single-cell “atlas” of the primate brain to help explore links between molecules, cells, brain function, and disease.

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Understanding the brain via a molecular map

PIK Professor Michael Platt and collaborators have generated the first single-cell “atlas” of the primate brain to help explore links between molecules, cells, brain function, and disease.
Learning about resilience to stress
Daniella Oyenuga and Eshu Venkataswamy.

Daniella Oyenuga and Eshu Venkataswamy

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Learning about resilience to stress

PURM students spent the summer researching the neurobiology of stress resilience in the lab of Seema Bhatnagar, anesthesiology and critical care professor in the Perelman School of Medicine.