PhD student Jaime Castrellon won a NIH D-SPAN Award which supports the pre- to post-doctoral transition of extraordinarily promising graduate students in the neurosciences.
Undergraduate Melanie Camejo Coffigny receives grant for thesis research
New NIA Grant Funded to Support Research Into the Effects of Aging on Episodic Memory-Dependent Decision Making
A new R01 grant has been awarded to the Motivated Cognition and Aging Brain Lab (PI: Greg Samanez-Larkin) and Cabeza Lab (PI: Roberto Cabeza) to study age effects on decision making using fMRI and DTI
Morgan Taylor Receives Dean's Graduate Fellowship
Jaime Castrellon receives NSF Graduate Fellowship
Eric Juarez receives Dean's Graduate Fellowship
New NIA grant funded to support Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging
New R24 grant funded to support the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging currently co-directed by Gregory Samanez-Larkin (PI) and Nichole Lighthall.
New NIA grant funded for summer school in neuroeconomics and social neuroscience
New R25 grant funded to support a summer school in neuroeconomics and social neuroscience to be co-directed by Gregory Samanez-Larkin (PI), Molly Crockett, and Jamil Zaki.
New NIA grant funded for academic and private sector partnerships
New R25 grant funded to facilitate collaboration between academic scientists and the private sector to be co-directed by Laura Carstensen (MPI) at the Stanford Center on Longevity and Gregory Samanez-Larkin (MPI) at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
New NIA grant funded to study dopamine and decision making
New R01 grant funded to examine how individual and age differences in dopamine receptors, release, and transporters are related to individual differences in decision making. The project is a collaboration between the Zald lab at Vanderbilt and the Samanez-Larkin lab at Yale.