Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences at University of Pennsylvania Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society

Dr. Farah is a cognitive neuroscientist who works on problems at the interface of neuroscience and society.  These include: the effects of childhood poverty on brain development, the expanding use of neuropsychiatric medications by healthy people for brain enhancement, novel uses of brain imaging, in e.g. legal, diagnostic and educational contexts, and the many ways in which neuroscience is changing the way we think of ourselves as physical, mental, moral and spiritual beings.

Web Information

Department webpage: http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~mfarah/index.html

Center for Neuroscience & Society website: http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Farah

Contact Information

Email: mfarah@neuroethics.upenn.edu

Phone: (215) 573-3531

Address: 3720 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Biography

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.B., 1977, Metallurgy and Materials Science S.B., 1977, Philosophy

Harvard University Ph.D., 1983, Experimental Psychology

MIT and Boston University School of Medicine Postdoctoral studies, 1983-1985, Neuropsychology

Professional History

Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Psychology, 1985-1992

University of Pennsylvania Walter H. Annenberg Professor in Natural Sciences, 2006-present Professor of Psychology, 1992-present Secondary appointments in Neurology (1992-present) and Graduate School of Education (2012-present) Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 1999-2010 Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society, 2009-present

Selected Honors

Science Educator Award, Society for Neuroscience (2013) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010) William James Fellow (Lifetime Achievement Award), Association for Psychological ...

Neuroscience @Penn is based in the Department of Neuroscience with substantial coordination via the Mahoney Institute of Neuroscience. The Department of Neuroscience is located in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Neuroscience @Penn has a number of affiliated groups including: Behavioral Neuroscience at Penn, ; Center for Study of Addiction; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Neuroscience and Society, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center, Department of Neurology, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, Penn Vision Research Center,  Computational Neuroscience at Penn, and Neuroscience Graduate Group.

Web Information

Department of Neuroscience : http://www.med.upenn.edu/nscience/index.shtml

Institute of Neuroscience: http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/

Behavioral Neuroscience at Penn: http://www.psych.upenn.edu/behavneuro/

Center for Study of Addiction: http://www.med.upenn.edu/csa/index.html

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience: http://www.ccn.upenn.edu/

Center for Neuroscience and Society: http://www.neuroethics.upenn.edu/

Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology: http://www.med.upenn.edu/sleepctr/

Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/neuroscience-center

Department of Neurology: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/neuro/

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science: http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/

Penn Vision Research Center: http://vrc.med.upenn.edu/

Computational Neuroscience at Penn: http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/compneuro/

Neuroscience Graduate Group: http://www.med.upenn.edu/ngg/

NSF BRAIN Initiative Grant: http://brain2015.onair.cc/noise-in-mental-exploration-for-learning/

Contact Information

Department of Neuroscience and Institute of Neuroscience Email: johndani@mail.med.upenn.edu (John Dani’s is Chair of both organizations)

Chair’s Phone: (215) 898-8498

Address: 211 Clinical Research Building 415 Curie Blvd Philadelphia, PA 19104

Department of Neuroscience 

The Department of Neuroscience, located in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. ...

Professor of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine Principal Investigator, Gold Lab Chair, Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG) Co-Director, Computational Neuroscience Initiative

Dr. Gold’s recent work has begun to identify how and where in the brain inference processes are implemented, particularly in the service of perceptual and reward-based decision-making. Research in my laboratory focuses on how these processes are shaped by learning to provide the flexibility a decision-maker needs to survive in a complex and dynamic world.

Web Information

Deparatment webpage: med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g309/p843

Gold Lab website: med.upenn.edu/goldlab/index.shtml

Neuroscience Graduate Group  webpage: med.upenn.edu/ngg/

Computational Neuroscience Initiative website:  cni.upenn.edu/

Neuroscience @Penn: http://brain2015.onair.cc/neuroscience-penn/

NSF BRAIN Initiative Grant: http://brain2015.onair.cc/noise-in-mental-exploration-for-learning/

Contact Information

Email:jigold@mail.med.upenn.edu

Phone: (215) 746-0028

Address: 116 Johnson Pavilion 3610 Hamilton Walk University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA 19104-6060

Biography

Sc.B. (Neural Sciences) , Brown University , 1991

Ph.D. (Neurosciences) , Stanford University, 1997

Research

Many aspects of higher brain function rely on two closely related capacities, inference and learning. Inference is the process of drawing conclusions from uncertain data, like forming a percept from noisy sensory information or predicting the most rewarding future outcome from the recent history of outcomes. These inferences often inform decisions that determine behavior. Learning uses experience to shape how these kinds of inference and decision processes function, often optimizing them to meet particular goals. Recent work has begun to ...

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Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Pharmacology and Co-Director of the PENN Genome Frontiers Institute Member of BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group (NIAAA council)

Dr. Eberwine is a molecular neurobiologist whose research efforts focus on understanding the functioning of individual neurons and subregions of neurons, called dendrites, by using molecular biological tools. He has developed various analytical procedures that permit characterization of the mRNA and protein complement of single cells.

Web Information

Penn Webpage: med.upenn.edu/cbir/JamesEberwine

Contact Information

Email: eberwine@upenn.edu

Address: Center for Brain Injury and Repair Department of Neurosurgery University of Pennsylvania Medical Center 105 Hayden Hall, 3320 Smith Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316

Biography

Dr. Eberwine is a molecular neurobiologist whose research efforts focus on understanding the functioning of individual neurons and subregions of neurons, called dendrites, by using molecular biological tools. He has developed various analytical procedures that permit characterization of the mRNA and protein complement of single cells. Dr. Eberwine serves on various review and advisory committees and has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Among several honors, he has received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health, a Pioneer Award from NIH Director’s office and is the recipient of a EUREKA grant and Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging award.