Columbia Engineering neuroscientists identify a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory.
A new article highlights how an old psychedelic drug, Ariadne, may improve brain health without hallucinogenic effects.
In the first nationally representative study(link is external and opens in a new window) of cognitive impairment prevalence in more than 20 years, Columbia University researchers have found almost 10% of U.S. adults ages 65 and older have dementia, while another 22% have mild cognitive impairment.
Recent developments have brought potentially lifesaving technologies closer to fruition.
Prevalence is particularly high among adolescents and young adults
New research shows how and when these particles form and offers clues to questions that have troubled scientists since the 1940s.
Can the neurobiology of the simplest of decisions also underlie our most complex of thoughts?
Past 12-month LSD use rate increased from 0.9 percent in 2002 to 4 percent in 2019
A chance observation spawns a versatile new strategy for taking on some of humanity’s most vexing psychiatric disorders.
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Rover Diagnostics team up to develop a low-cost, portable platform that gives RT-PCR results in 23 minutes that match laboratory-based tests
Beneficial Effects of Rising CO2 for Plants Disappear Under Flooding, 33-Year Field Experiment Reveals
A screening program that combines genetic and lab testing could identify 1 million Americans who are at risk of early death from heart disease because they carry a gene that causes high cholesterol, found researchers at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Fungus-based construction materials could be useful in remote settings or at the scenes of natural disasters.
Having three or more versus two children has a negative effect on late-life cognition
Columbia researchers have discovered a way of sizing up the ‘shadows’ of two supermassive black holes in the process of colliding.
By examining connections between information-seeking, learning and motivation, new study offers pointers for public-education campaigns and classrooms.
Across the United States, historically redlined neighborhoods that scored lowest in racially discriminatory maps drawn by the government-sponsored Home-Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s had twice the density of oil and gas wells than comparable neighborhoods that scored highest.
In a new modeling study, researchers show how widely wind and solar potential vary by season and year.
Highest concentrations were found for Hispanic communities
Receding Ice May Produce a Deadly Chain Reaction