Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
By studying stroke victims who have lost the ability to spell, researchers have pinpointed the parts of the brain that control how we write words.
February 1, 2016 Tags: brain sciences, Brenda Rapp, Cognitive Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, spelling, stroke, Writing
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences
By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person’s brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist has found.
August 19, 2015 Tags: blindness, brain sciences, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Marina Bedny, neuroscience
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences
Although the human ability to write evolved from our ability to speak, in the brain, writing and talking are now such independent systems that someone who can’t write a grammatically correct sentence may be able say it aloud flawlessly, discovered a team led by Johns Hopkins University cognitive scientist Brenda Rapp.
May 5, 2015 Tags: brain sciences, Brenda Rapp, Johns Hopkins University, talking, Writing
| Category: Natural Sciences, Psychology
Ten distinguished cognitive neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and linguists from top institutions across the country will gather at Shriver and Mason halls this week to discuss what promise to be the most exciting new developments in the study of the mind and brain over the coming decade. Sponsored by the departments of Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, this seminar will do more than stimulate discussion: It will create a blueprint for the future of cognitive and brain sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. This event is the seventh in a series of Futures Seminars that began in September with the Classics Department and has included sessions for the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Anthropology and History; the Humanities Center; and the Film and Media Studies program. By this time next year, 21 Futures Seminars comprising every department, discipline and program in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences will have been held, according to Katherine Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the school.
December 14, 2010 Tags: academic direction, brain sciences, cognitive science, Futures Seminar, Futures Seminars, Homewood campus, James B. Knapp Dean, Katherine Newman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mind/Brain Institute, Psychology
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Environment, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, University-Related
Using a $1.3 million National Institutes of Health grant underwritten by the federal stimulus act, Krieger School psychologist Michela Gallagher and her team are about to embark on one of their most important studies yet: determining whether a medication commonly used to treat seizures can help improve memory and brain function in adults suffering from mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, a common precursor to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.
January 19, 2010 Tags: aging, Alzheimer's disease, Bakker, brain sciences, dementia, Krieger School, memory loss, Psychology
| Category: Psychology, Public Health
