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Tse, Professor Patrick Cavanagh, and Sirui Liu has been published in Current Biology and highlighted in Mind Matters. PBS welcomes Professor Tor Wager to the faculty Professor Tor Wager joined PBS in 2019 as the inaugural Diana L. Taylor 1977 Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience. Professor Wager leads the Breaking the Neural Code academic cluster. New Study Shows How Autism Can Be Measured Through a Non-Verbal Marker Research led by Assistant Professor Caroline Robertson has identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism which offers an objective way to potentially diagnose autism in the future. Congratulations to the Class of 2019 The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences congratulates the class of 2019, which included over 100 psychology and neuroscience majors. Several members of the graduating class received awards at the department's annual picnic. Cara Van Uden '19 wins Neukom Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Cara Van Uden ’19 has won this year's Neukom Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Computational Science for her work with Professor James Haxby. Luke Chang receives award from Association for Psychological Science Assistant Professor Luke Chang has been awarded a 2019 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions PBS welcomes two new faculty members in 2018-19 Professors Katherine Nautiyal and Caroline Robertson joined the PBS faculty in July, 2018. Armin Tavakkoli '20 awarded Senior Fellowship Armin Tavakkoli ’20, Psychology major, has been awarded a 2019-20 Senior Fellowship for his research with Professors David Bucci and Travis Todd. 2018 Leaton Lecturer Rebecca Burwell Brown University Professor Rebecca Burwell delivered a talk at Dartmouth on November 16. She is pictured here with Professor Emeritus Robert Leaton. Dr. Travis Todd Awarded NIH Grant to Study Fear Reduction Travis Todd, a Research Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, has received a four-year K01 research grant through the National Institute of Mental Health. Professor David Bucci will head his mentoring team. Recent Publications view all Complementary Control over Habits and Behavioral Vigor by Phasic Activity in the Dorsolateral Striatum. Adam C. G. Crego, Fabián Štoček, Alec G. Marchuk, James E. Carmichael, Matthijs van der Meer , Kyle S. Smith Journal of Neuroscience, 4 March 2020 Commutative Properties of Head Direction Cells during Locomotion in 3D: Are All Routes Equal? Patrick LaChance, Julie Dumont, Pelin Ozel, Jennifer Marcroft, Jeffrey Steven Taube Journal of Neuroscience, 8 April 2020 Evidence for decreased Neurologic Pain Signature activation following thoracic spinal manipulation in healthy volunteers. Weber, K. A., Tor Wager , Mackey, S., Elliott, J. M., Liu, W. & Sparks, C.L. Neuroimage Clinical, 2019, 24, 102042 When it hurts even more: The neural dynamics of pain and interpersonal emotions. Landa, A., Fallon, B. A., Wang, Z., Duan, Y., Tor Wager , et al. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2020, 128,109881. 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