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The Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences

Recipients

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2025

Dr. Amy Bastian, Kennedy Krieger Institute

Amy Bastian is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a neuroscientist and physical therapist who studies the neural control of human movement. She has a special interest in stroke, cerebellar motor disorders and childhood motor development.

Talk Title:ÌýLearning and Relearning Human Movement

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Established by the as part of its centennial celebration, the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences recognizes trailblazers in the brain and behavioral sciences whose research has helped advance the field and its applications. Each year, the winner is invited to Â鶹´å's campus to deliver a scientific talk and they are presented with an original piece of artwork commissioned from artist . The prize also awards a one-year graduate fellowship to a Â鶹´å student, who will typically have the opportunity to visit the recipient's lab.Ìý

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Richard Ivry, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

Talk Title:ÌýProbing the Role of the Cerebellum in Sensorimotor Learning and Cognition

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Tirin Moore, Ph.D., Ben Barres Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University. Member of Bio-X; Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI); Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute.

Talk Title:ÌýLarge-scale, High-Density Recordings in the Primate Brain

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Marisa Carrasco, Ph.D., Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science and Collegiate Professor at New York University

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Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Program in Neuroscience & Mental Health. The Hospital for Sick Children, Research Institute, University of Toronto

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Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., Charles BG Murphy Professor in Psychiatry and Deputy Chair for Basic Science, Professor of Neuroscience, of Pharmacology, and in the Child Study Center

Talk Title: Acetylcholine as a neuromodulator: ACh signaling in the basolateral amygdala at baseline and in reward learning.

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Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University

Talk Title: Differential Resilience to Perturbation of Circuits with Similar Performance

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Krishna V. Shenoy, Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Engineering, Stanford University

Talk Title: Brain-machine Interfaces: From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Trials

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Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health (NIH)Ìý

Talk Title: Molecular Imaging of Addictive Disorders

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Alexandre Pouget, Full Professor, Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva

Talk Title: The Probabilistic Brain

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Ed Boyden, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering & Brain and Cognitive Science at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT McGovern Institute

Talk Title: Tools for Understanding and Fixing the Brain

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Ricardo Dolmetsch, Global Head of Neuroscience at the Novartis Institute for Biomedical ResearchÌý

Talk Title: Insights Into the Brain of a Child With Autism

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Leslie G. Ungerleider (1946–2020), Chief of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Talk Title: The Functional Architecture of Face Processing in the Primate Brain

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