Neuroscience

The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation Announce the 2025 Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience

The 2025 class of Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience is announced, extending a program that has fostered the work of over 180 neuroscience scholars since its launch in 2009. This distinguished postdoctoral initiative supports outstanding early-career scientists conducting pioneering neuroscience research throughout New York City’s five boroughs. From a highly competitive applicant...

April 29, 2025

After an eight-year tenure as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, a visionary psychiatrist and neuroscientist, assumed his new role on August 15, 2024, as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Executive Director of the...

Dr. Joshua Gordon Returns to Lead Columbia Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute
The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation announced today the first cohort of Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience, a continuation of an earlier fellowship program started by the Foundation in 2009 that has supported 160 fellows in neuroscience.
New York Academy of Sciences and Leon Levy Foundation Name First 10 Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience
The New York Academy of Sciences and the Leon Levy Foundation announced today that the Academy will be accepting applications from October 5 through December 9, 2022 for the Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience program. The program will support exceptional young researchers across the five boroughs of New York City as they pursue innovative...
New York Academy of Sciences Partners with Leon Levy Foundation to Expand Opportunities for Young Neuroscientists
Neuroscience News - Multitasking is not just an office skill. It’s key to functioning as a human, and it involves something called cognitive flexibility – the ability to smoothly switch between mental processes. UNC scientists conducted a study to image the neural activity analogues to cognitive flexibility and discover differences in the brain activity of...
MRI Study Shows Brain Changes and Differences in Children With ADHD – Funded in part by the Leon Levy Foundation
The Leon Levy Scholars in Neuroscience postdoctoral program will include more than a dozen New York City institutions.  The program supports exceptional young researchers across the five boroughs of New York City as they pursue innovative investigations in neuroscience and advance in their careers toward becoming independent principal investigators.
New York Academy of Sciences Partners with Leon Levy Foundation to Expand Opportunities for Neuroscience Researchers

Columbia University and The New York Public Library have launched a public health initiative—in partnership with the National Black Leadership Commission on Health (Black Health)—to bring free education and resources to New York City residents who face lack of access and cultural barriers to behavioral health care. The Community Mental Health Project, supported by the...

Columbia-NYPL Launch Community Mental Health Project to Address the Needs of Underserved New Yorkers, with funding from the Leon Levy Foundation
Columbia's Department of Psychiatry has developed an innovative new outreach initiative as psychologists and psychiatrists prepare for a tsunami of mental-health issues caused by the collective trauma of the pandemic. The Post-COVID Community Mental Health Project, funded by the Leon Levy Foundation, sets out to increase public access to mental-health information. In...
Columbia’s Department of Psychiatry is bringing mental-health resources to communities that need them most

In a paper published today in Aging Cell, neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences discovered that a single protein—a glutamate transporter on the membrane of vesicles that carry dopamine in neurons—is key to regulating sex differences in the brain’s vulnerability to age-related neuron...

Protein Linked to Sex Differences in Age-Related Neuron Loss

Scientists uncovered a surprising mechanism by which the hippocampus, a brain region critical for memory, builds bridges across time: by firing off bursts of activity that seem random, but in fact make up a complex pattern that, over time, help the brain learn associations. By revealing the underlying circuitry behind associative learning,...

Unexpected Mental Processes Revealed in How the Brain Links Events to Form a Memory