The Neuroscience Training Program was established in 1971. Currently, it comprises over 100 faculty members whose research interests range from molecular neurobiology to integrative systems and computational modeling. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in research and teaching. Training leads to the Ph.D. degree in neuroscience or the M.D./Ph.D. degree in cooperation with the School of Medicine and Public Health.
NTP Faculty Richard Davidson was featured in the Huffington Post discussing how science can teach us about well-being. [Read More]
NTP Faculty Mike Koenigs was recently featured in an article in Time, "The Evil Brain: What Lurks Inside a Killer's Mind". [Read More]
NTP Faculty Su-Chun Zhang is working to show that human stem cells can successfully implant themselves in the brain and then heal neurological deficits. [Read More]
NTP Faculty Samuel Gubbels is working to cure hearing loss by replacing the hair cells essential for taking in sound. [Read More]
Technique developed by NTP faculty Sterling Johnson, moves practical Alzheimer diagnosis one step closer to reality. [Read More]
NTP researchers Launch new study to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world. [UW News Link]
Study pinpoints Ritalin's influence in the brain's attention circuit;Article featuring NTP faculty Craig Berridge. [UW News Link]
Patients donate locally to fund research. Article featuring NTP faculty John Kuo . [UW News Link]
"Psychopaths' Brains Show Differences in Structure and Function" Study featuring NTP faculty Michael Koenigs. [UW News Link]
Research on lab grown neurons taking charge of brain circuitry features NTP faculty Su-Chun Zhang . [UW News Link]
Researchers solve membrane protein mystery features Edwin Chapman
Human brain’s most ubiquitous cell cultivated in lab dish features Su-Chun Zhang
Stress, anxiety both boon and bane to brain features Richard Davidson
UW-Madison study links brain damage to insomnia features Mike Koenigs
Distinctive Sleep Pattern Could Reveal Schizophrenia features Giulio Tononi
Announcement - The NIH awarded a multidisciplinary RC4 grant of 1.8 million dollars and the NCI awarded 1 million dollars to Professor John Kuo's lab and collaborators
Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can features Richard Davidson
For first time, monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror, indicating self-awareness features Luis Populin & Abby Rajala
Researchers Discover Possible Way to Predict Alzheimer's features Sterling Johnson
Wisconsin Researchers Participating in Alzheimer's Breakthrough Ride features Barbara Bendlin
Inherited Brain Activity Predicts Childhood Risk for Anxiety features Ned H. Kalin
Brain Responds Same to Acute and Chronic Sleep Loss features Chiara Cirelli
Congratulations to NTP Faculty Ian Duncan on being named as a WARF Chair as the Sir William Lee Weipers Professor of Veterinary Medicine. Congratulations to NTP Faculty Qiang Chang as well for being named a 2013 Vilas Associate. Read More
Jon Levine is New Director of Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Dalai Lama trust to fund UW-Madison research on healthy minds
NTP researchers (Profs. Bendlin, Johnson, Cirelli, and Kalin) have been featured in the School of Medicine and Public Health's Research Digest.
NTP will be one of seven partnering programs to host the first annual Bioscience Opportunities Preivew weekend at UW-Madison on Oct 21-24, 2010. For more information on this recruiting event, please visit the preview weekend website
NTP researchers have been featured in the School of Medicine and Public Health's Research Digest.
