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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 1d

Always interested in science, Dr. Steve Goldman shares how his mother encouraged his education. She would drive him through the University of Pennsylvania campus as a boy, it is where he would go for undergrad

👇Watch Neuroscience Perspectives #podcast #URochesterResearch

Can the Brain Be Repaired by Replacing Its Cells?

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MarcosLab UR @marcoslabur.bsky.social · 3d

Announcing Research Talks @cvsuor.bsky.social 🗓️October 8, 🏥K207; 🕒2:30-4PM @urochestersmd.bsky.social 1️⃣ Benjamin Chin @rittigers.bsky.social
2️⃣ Alex Kotelsky #BauschLomb 3️⃣ Raja Narayanan @flaumeye.bsky.social; #VisionScience #Optics #Ophthalmology; @uofrbme.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 5d

There's still time to register! 👇

Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Registration extended to Oct. 3

We're convening intellectual and developmental disabilities research experts from across the country for a two day symposium

🔗 bit.ly/46xlBXL
📅 Oct 28 & 29
📍 Rochester, NY - a top place to visit in the fall via
@usatoday.com
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🎨 @charmainela.bsky.social

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 6d

The impact that the bird brain has on human health and disease 🐦

Full episode of Neuroscience Perspectives with @johnfoxe.bsky.social ➡️ bit.ly/3KvBgiZ

#podcast #neuroscience #URochesterResearch

Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 7d

The PFAS - PFHxA, is made up of a shorter chain of molecules and is thought to have less of an impact on human health, but #URochesterResearch found that early life exposure to PFHxA may increase anxiety-related behaviors and memory deficits in male mice

Researchers Find “Forever Chemicals” Impact the Developing Male Brain

“Forever chemicals” or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely used in consumer and industrial products for the better part of a century, but do not break down in the natural…

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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 7d

Temporal integration throughout the human auditory cortex is predominantly locked to absolute time and does not vary with the duration of speech structures such as phonemes or words

@samnorman-haignere.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporal integration in human auditory cortex is predominantly yoked to absolute time - Nature Neuroscience

Temporal integration throughout the human auditory cortex is predominantly locked to absolute time and does not vary with the duration of speech structures such as phonemes or words.

www.nature.com

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Registration extended to Oct. 3

We're convening intellectual and developmental disabilities research experts from across the country for a two day symposium

🔗 bit.ly/46xlBXL
📅 Oct 28 & 29
📍 Rochester, NY - a top place to visit in the fall via
@usatoday.com
🍂

🎨 @charmainela.bsky.social

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 8d

#URochesterResearch found microglia, the brain's immune cells, play a key role in how the brain adapts to the changes in this area during adolescence, which may transform how neurodevelopmental disorders are treated during this window and, possibly, into adulthood

Brain’s Immune Cells Key to Wiring the Adolescent Brain

Making a smoothie, going for an evening walk, or having empathy for a loved one are all examples of executive functions that are controlled by the brain’s frontal cortex. This area of the brain goes…

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 9d

Just as chronic pain care is multidisciplinary, so is the research approach @urmed.bsky.social

Drs. Jennifer Gewandter & @paulgeha.bsky.social are investigating whether language or facial expressions can be used to characterize different types of chronic pain

Read more⤵️

Neuroscience | Volume 26 | 2025

Researchers at the University of Rochester are advancing transdisciplinary approaches to better understand, predict, and treat chronic pain. Paul Geha, MD, who was a recent guest on the Neuroscience P

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 13d

Dr. Steve Goldman has taken his research from birds to people, demonstrating that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged neural networks in Huntington's & other diseases #URochesterResearch

🎧Latest episode of Neuroscience Perspectives w/ @johnfoxe.bsky.social

Can the Brain Be Repaired by Replacing Its Cells?

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 13d

🐶🐱¿Cómo distingue el cerebro entre un perro y un gato?

El estudiante de posgrado en neurología Jay Gonzalez-Amoretti estudia cómo el cerebro construye representaciones mentales a partir de información visual, lo que nos ayuda a comprender cómo organiza el mundo que nos rodea. #URochesterResearch

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 13d

🐶🐱 How does the brain know the difference between a dog & a cat?

Neuro grad student, Jay Gonzalez-Amoretti, studies how the brain builds mental representations from visual information, helping us understand how it organizes the world around us #URochesterResearch In a Neuro Minute🧠

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 14d

👇Happening tomorrow

The Hearing & Balance Research Collective welcomes
Dr. Melissa Caras of the University of Maryland presents 'The Neural Basis of Expert Sound Perception'

Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 15d

We're convening intellectual and developmental disabilities research experts from across the country for a two day symposium

Have you registered yet? Deadline: Sept 26

🔗 bit.ly/46xlBXL
📅 Oct 28 & 29
📍 Rochester, NY - a top place to visit in the fall via @usatoday.com 🍂

🎨 @charmainela.bsky.social

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samnorman-haignere.bsky.social @samnorman-haignere.bsky.social · 19d

Human auditory cortex integrates information in speech across absolute time (e.g., 200 ms), not phonemes, syllables, words, or any other time-varying speech structure: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 19d

“This was surprising. It turns out that when you slow down a word, the auditory cortex doesn't change the time window it is processing. It's like the auditory cortex is integrating across this fixed time scale.” #URochesterResearch

Millisecond Windows of Time May Be Key to How We Hear, Study Finds

What happens when you listen to speech at a different speed? Neuroscientists thought that your brain may turn up its processing speed as well. But it turns out that at least the auditory part of the b...

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 19d

What happens when you listen to speech a different speeds? Does your brain change its processing speed too? It turns out, no
@samnorman-haignere.bsky.social & researchers at
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social found the auditory part of the brain keeps clocking in at a fixed time
via @natneuro.nature.com

Temporal integration in human auditory cortex is predominantly yoked to absolute time - Nature Neuroscience

Temporal integration throughout the human auditory cortex is predominantly locked to absolute time and does not vary with the duration of speech structures such as phonemes or words.

www.nature.com

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 21d

How does alcohol impact brain cells?

Mariah Marrero in the Arefin Lab @urochestersmd.bsky.social uses advanced imaging techniques to study the impact alcohol use disorders have on astrocytes & the brain's communication network #URochesterResearch In a Neuro Minute🧠

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University of Rochester BME (Biomedical Engineering) @uofrbme.bsky.social · 21d

Coming up on Sep 25th!
Hearing and Balance Research Collective Guest Speaker, Dr. Melissa Caras (University of Maryland), presents: "The neural basis of expert sound perception".

Join us!
Event Page:
events.rochester.edu/event/hearin...

#otolaryngology
@urneuroscience.bsky.social

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 22d

Dr. @elisepiazza.bsky.social of @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social has woven her love of music & science into her lab-aiming to understand how the brain organizes natural sounds and how multiple people’s brains & behaviors align to support interpersonal communication 👉 bit.ly/46oMVYs

#URochesterResearch

Head and shoulders photo of Dr. Elise Piazza, she has a multi-colored top, brown shoulder-length hair, and is smiling.

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 23d

Some brains may be wired for pain—before it even starts

On Neuroscience Perspectives, Dr. @paulgeha.bsky.social discusses groundbreaking research on brain pathways that predict chronic pain risk

🎧 Full episode → bit.ly/4n7nAt9

@johnfoxe.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social #podcast

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University of Rochester @urochester.bsky.social · 23d

TACKLING HEAD INJURIES: This season, URochester researchers at @urneuroscience.bsky.social are teaming up with the Yellowjackets to continue a decades-long mission to understand how head injuries affect athletes and service members

#URochesterResearch | uofr.us/4mdbrl6

Tackling head injuries with science

From the sidelines to the front lines, University of Rochester research is redefining how concussions are detected, treated, and prevented.

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 28d

👇Register today
Inside the Brain: Mapping Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities symposium

IDD experts from across the country will come together to share the latest advancements & research
📅 Oct 28-29
📍Memorial Art Gallery

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🎨 @charmainela.bsky.social

original art by Charmaine Wheatley - watercolor of kids some wearing EEG caps

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · 29d

It's critical in chronic pain research & treatment to consider & treat the whole patient. This approach dates back to the 1970s when Dr George Engel conceptualized the biopsychosocial model @urmed.bsky.social

More 👉 bit.ly/41L7Fbd

📸Janet Pennella-Vaughan, MS, NP, Tammy Ortiz, & Dr Robert Dworkin

The one very important consistency over all these years is that state-of-the-art treatment for chronic pain is multidisciplinary... This treatment approach reflects the fact that chronic pain is almost always a truly biopsychosocial condition. Robert Dworkin, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Neurology, and the Center for Health + Technology

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Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations, Dr. Shang! 🎉

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