Social Neuroscience and Pain (SNaP) lab
The Social Neuroscience and Pain lab combines social psychology, social neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and health psychology. Our focus is on three questions:
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14 Million Honeybees Escape After a Truck Rolls Over in Washington State
From The New York Times: In the northwest corner of Washington State on Friday morning, the authorities issued a most unusual all-points bulletin, rather, an A.P.Bee.“250 million bees are now loose,” the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Department...
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Kids who eat foods with soy more focused at school
Children who eat foods containing soy are more focused at school, according to a study.American researchers found that school-aged youngsters who consumed more isoflavones from soy foods...
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Two LAS professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honorary societies in the United States. History...
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Saif Honored by Grainger Engineering for Career of Prominence
Bioengineering, Mechanical Science and Engineering, and The Grainger College of Engineering community recently celebrated a new named appointment for professor Taher Saif. In an investiture ceremony held in the Beckman Institute...
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Wearable technology continuously monitors heart-rate recovery to predict risk
Two articles were recently published highlighting the work of Neuroscience Program faculty, Manuel Hernandez and Neuroscience Graduate student Jonathan Cerna:Wearable...
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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Jake Carpenter-Thompson
Dr. Jake Carpenter-Thompson serves as the director of clinical research at the Kutcher Clinic for Sports Neurology. He recently published research in conjunction with Dr. Jeffery Kutcher regarding...
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Dr. Jason Climer - Unraveling the Mysteries of the Brain
by Shreya Rana, April 2025Jason Climer, a dynamic researcher at the Beckman Institute, brings a unique blend of engineering and neuroscience to his work. Climer is a Neuroscience faculty member with...
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Climer Lab
Research Description
The evolution of neural firing over the lifetime of memory
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Mutation increases enzyme in mouse brains linked to schizophrenia behaviors
Shared from UIUC Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau, 2/18/25
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with the same mutation, a rare finding of a direct genetic...