Summer 2020

• Music and the Brain

Spring 2020

• Cannabis and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Bruce Palmer Bean, PhD, and understanding of the basic neurobiology of how compounds in cannabis affect brain cells

Winter 2019

• Abandonment and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Lauren Orefice, PhD, and understanding the development and function of the circuits responsible for encoding the sense of touch

Autumn 2019

• Delirium, Dementia, and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Wade Harper, PhD, and understanding the underlying cell biology of neuron

Summer 2019

• Screen Time and the Brain 

• Faculty First Person with Rick Born, MD ’88, and the study how the cerebral cortex help us see

Spring 2019

• Anesthesia and the Brain 

Winter 2018

• Hunger and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Matthew Pecot, PhD, and the study of synapses

Autumn 2018

• Aging and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Lisa Goodrich, AB ’91, PhD, and the study of the highway from the ear to the brain

Summer 2018

• Circadian Rhythms and the Brain

Spring 2018

• Hearing Loss and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with David Corey, PhD, and hereditary deafness

Winter 2017

• The Gut and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Stephen Liberles, AB ’94, AM ’96, PhD ’00, and the vagus nerve

Autumn 2017

• Football and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Isaac Chiu, AB ’02, PhD ’09, and how the gut microbiome can cause pain

Summer 2017

• Zika and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Corey Harwell, PhD, and the study of chromatin-modifying enzymes

Spring 2017

• Addiction and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD, and Bruce Palmer Bean, PhD, and pain

Winter 2016

• Holiday stress and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Edward Kravitz, PhD, and the study of agression

Autumn 2016

• Decision-making and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Chris Harvey, PhD, and how decision-making is implemented by neuronal circuits 

Summer 2016

• Reading and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Margaret Livingstone, PhD ’81, and how nature and nurture instruct the formation of brain domains

Spring 2016

• Sugar and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Gary Yellen, AB ’79, PhD, and the ketogenic diet

Winter 2015

• Dancing and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Sandeep Robert “Bob” Datta, MD ’04, PhD ’04, and the study of smell

Autumn 2015

• Nightmares and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with Dragana Rogulja, PhD, and the study of sleep

Summer 2015

• Fly-fishing and the Brain

• Faculty First Person with David Ginty, PhD, and the sense of touch

Spring 2015

• Love and the Brain

• Chenghua Gu, PhD, and the blood-brain barrier